Project Heartbeat Gets Big Update, Adds New Song, Audio Improvements, and Project DIVA Mega Mix+ Loader
Good stuff just keeps on coming to the anime rhythm game. Update 0.16 gets plenty of features and bug fixes, ranging from an updated audio engine to support of the songs from Project DIVA Mega Mix+. Here’s the list of updates:
new song: Confession, by Takanashi Koubou updated audio engine, which “achieves higher levels of memory safety and performance while using less memory” (should produce a 10% improvement in memory consumption and faster loading times, maybe this will increase the Deck’s battery life as well?
Oryx Pro by System76 – A Great Gaming Laptop
The Oryx Pro is a laptop from System76 that features an Alder Lake processor and a powerful RTX 30-series GPU. Per my conversation with Adam Balla, media relations manager at System76, all of System76’s laptops are named after African fauna. In this particular case, the Oryx Pro is named after the antelope, which, according to the African Wildlife Foundation, “are a true desert animal, with a thick, horse-like neck; a short mane; and a compact, muscular body.
Godot 4 Is Finally Here! (As Beta)
Man. This has been a long release in the making. But it’s finally here: Godot 4. After several alpha releases, it’s now hit beta. While it may be in beta, it has entered a feature-freeze state, meaning that once Godot 4 has become stable, it’s still going to be the same thing that you’ve got now, only that the bugs have been ironed out.
For those not aware, Godot is a great FOSS alternative to engines like Unity and Unreal Engine.
Steam Tokyo Game Show Sale is Live, Get Some Great Deals
The 2022 Steam Tokyo Game Show is now live until September 18th. Some pretty decent titles are on sale, ranging from Halo Infinite to Final Fantasy VII Remake. Here you can sort the sale by publisher:
CD Projekt Red Capcom Konami Xbox Game Studios Spike Chunsoft Square Enix 505 Games Koei Tecmo PlayStation And here’s some recommendations:
Final Fantasy VII Remake Integrade – 29% off, Deck Verified Street Fighter V - Champion Edition – 52% off, works great on Deck even though it’s “Unsupported” Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy – 50% off, Deck Playable Ultimate Marvel Vs.
Destroy All Humans 2! Reprobed – A Drug-Fueled Trip to the 1960s
I’m not old enough to have personally witnessed the events of the 1960s. Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician Sex. J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?
But, if you happen to have lived and experienced the 60s, and want to see this period of time parodied, then look no further than Destroy All Humans! 2. The original took place in 1959. The sequel takes place in 1969.
GE-Proton7-33 Pulls In Latest Wine Fixes for GTA V, RDR2, BioShock Collection
Remember that so-called “Quality of Life” update that 2K recently pushed out for the BioShock series? Remember how it added a launcher and as a result got review bombed on Steam? Remember how it broke Proton compatibility?
Well, GE-Proton7-33 is here to the rescue. Yes, you’ll still have to deal with the launcher, but the games should now work. Not only this, but Red Dead Redemption 2 and Grand Theft Auto V have also received fixes, thanks to GE-Proton7-33 pulling in the latest changes from Wine.
Weekly News Recap (Steam Deck Repair Centers, More Steam Deck Invitations, Steam Deck at Tokyo Games Show)
Steam Deck official repair centers are a go need to run a containerized distro? Look no further than Distrobox the JSAUX dock gets a further upgrade with M.2 SSD support even more invitations are being sent out! new Deck client beta fixes some bugs related to screenshots and Bluetooth looks like Valve will have a big presence at the Tokyo Games Show a PS Vita emulator? Yes. Running on Deck Native Linux Games Portal 2 was inspired by Super Metroid Splittown Linux port is “very much a possibility” if you voice your support for it horror sauna simulator Sauna2000 is coming to Linux.
Steam Deck Repair Centers Are Live
Though you could freely work on your own Deck with replacement parts from iFixit, Valve has finally launched their service support centers. Now should you have broken parts and are too nervous to fix it yourself, you can send it over:
If you encounter an issue and need to send your Steam Deck for repair or replacement, devices will now go to one of our repair centers. Once there, our team will diagnose the device, repair if needed, then ship the fixed unit back to you.
You Can Run Containerized Distros on Steam Deck Thanks to Distrobox
As Phoronix had spotted earlier today, Distrobox – a wrapper that creates and uses containers (like a distro) that are highly integrated into the host machine – got a pretty big update with 1.4.0. I won’t go over the changes, but I will say this: there’s now documentation on how to get Distrobox set up on the Steam Deck. Just look under the “SteamOS 3” section on their table. Simply run steamos-readonly disable via the terminal to disable the immutable file system, then follow their installation instructions for Arch Linux or install Podman to $HOME.
Fun Fact: Portal 2 Was Inspired (In Part) By Super Metroid
KIWI TALKZ interviews various employees (or ex-employees) from Valve and Retro Studios. He was the one who conducted the famous interview with Valve writer Eric Wolpaw, who had expressed his interest in writing Portal 3.
Well, there’s also the interview with Portal 2 lead designer Josh Weier. There was one interesting clip where he talks about how Super Metroid influenced the introduction to Portal 2:
We had this problem in the game which was if you just played Portal, we didn’t want to make you learn portals all again.