Portal with RTX was originally scheduled to show up sometime this month. But according to NVIDIA, it’s been pushed back to December 8th. This free DLC brings “full ray tracing” and “DLSS 3 to one of the best video games of all time.” Experience the critically acclaimed and award-winning Portal™ reimagined with ray tracing. Every frame of gameplay is upgraded with stunning full ray tracing, new, hand-crafted hi-res physically based textures, and new, enhanced high-poly models evocative of the originals, all in stunning 4K.

Huge congrats to the Heroic team for this, well, heroic release! There’s just so many cool new features, improvements, and bug fixes with the 2.5.0 update, codenamed “Yamato.” The stable update just came out a few hours ago and contains over three months’ worth of changes. Here are the highlights: download manager – works similarly to Steam’s download manager; introduced with the first beta sideload games and apps, even if they aren’t in your Epic/GOG library HowLongToBeat – introduced with beta 3 custom themes with CSS, along with two new themes the ability to add Steam games automatically improved game detection from external drives revamped Settings and login UI improved UI performance, better gamepad navigation updates to Legendary and Electron tons of other fixes and improvements See the full patch notes on GitHub

Yesterday’s Steam Deck client beta update is all about bug fixes. Fixes for the lock screen PIN, the “show password” toggle, the Switch Pro controller vibration over USB, and more: General: Fixed size of content in Update news dialog when running with Windows text scaling >100% Fixed lock screen PIN reset process to not show PIN entry screen upon Steam Deck restart Fixed crash when touching gift or new inventory item notification Fixed “show password” toggle to show/hide the password.

New driver update for NVIDIA GPUs went out today. Included in this update are the support of Dynamic Boost for notebooks with AMD CPUs, improved performance of PRIME render-offloaded apps, the removal of stutter when moving windows in GNOME, a fix for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, and tons of other changes. Features include: Added support for Dynamic Boost on notebooks with AMD CPUs. Added support for the EGL_MESA_platform_surfaceless extension. Implemented support for over-the-air updates in the Proton and Wine NVIDIANGX build.

Steam Deck Monday’s client beta fixes remote play and adds new gyro activation options evidently Crysis 2 and 3 Remastered are working great on Deck if you want to play local or online multiplayer with Nintendo Switch emulation on Linux/Steam Deck, here’s a guide News Ubisoft is bringing more of their catalogue over to Steam Steam Autumn sale is live until Tuesday Nintendo issues DMCA takedowns for Switch game artwork on SteamGridDB Garfield Kart - Furious Racing is free to grab over on Fanatical Hardware I took a look at the Thelio desktop (i5-13600K, RTX 3060) Thelio desktop gets customizable accent getting a customized GameCube controller in the next few days…powered by open-source firmware.

Wine 7.22 is now available. Features are as follows: 32-on-64 thunks for both Vulkan and OpenGL OpenLDAP library bundled and built as PE support for the RAW print processor in WinPrint more progress on the long types printf format conversion In addition, 38 bugs were fixed. Both Saints Row (2022) and Gothic II: Night of the Raven should now run. See the full patch notes on WineHQ. Cover image credit: Volition/Deep Silver

Cemu 2.0-18 came out yesterday. Notable features with this update include the option to delete shader cache from the context menu, simplified Vulkan “swapchain code,” the dropdown combobox on the Linux version should now work, and fixed resource path for the AppImage. Some other smaller bug fixes landed as well. Image credit: qurious-pixel See the commit history from November 21st onwards for more details. Download the pre-compiled build from GitHub.

Pretty exciting update for Heroic Games Launcher. When seeing the details for a game, you’ll see how many hours it takes to beat the game, so long as the data for that particular game is available. Awesome feature to see. Plenty of other features have been added to beta 3 of version 2.5.0: UI and performance improvements “more seamless” UI navigation with gamepad, controls more akin to the Deck UI similar behavior is exerted as the Deck when a MicroSD card has been removed or installed, for increased seamlessness for detecting externally installed games improved cloud sync detection Legendary (the backend that powers Heroic) has been updated to the latest version; this fixes the accidental deletion of save data when the cloud version of the save gets downloaded the Linux version of the app now has a checkbox to use the default Wine settings when installing a game various smaller changes and tweaks Some bugs have been fixed:

Boiling Steam recently highlighted the fact that Steam Deck ratings can get changed over the course of time. An example is Dirt Rally 2.0 suddenly going from Verified to Unsupported. One customer complained that Dirt Rally 2.0 no longer runs on Deck due to the “new launcher” that the game supposedly has. I get the frustration. But what frustrates me in return is when reviews like these spread misinformation. Fun fact: there is no launcher for Dirt Rally 2.

The Thelio by System76 is an impressive-looking desktop. It comes in a black finish, mostly rectangular in shape, and is very mimimalistic in design. A few months ago, the Thelio went through a redesign. Instead of the accent going around part of the front and the entire right side, it is now just a small sliver at the front. It’s also user-replaceable; users can take it out and replace with a different design if they so choose.