Though r/SteamDeck is littered with pictures of people showing off their Deck or asking for a support request, there are occasionally some useful posts there. One such instance is what you should be getting when buying a MicroSD card. And I feel it’s important enough to mention it here, since I talk about the Steam Deck pretty frequently and some don’t know what they should get. You should be getting a U3 A2 UHS-I.

If you happen to own the AMD varient of the OneXPlayer Mini, you may have wanted to be able to control the fan. Well, that’s now a reality thanks to this driver. Building, installing, and usage instructions are provided. Note that this will not work on the Intel version until the developer gets “the correct EC registers to read/write to.” Special thanks to Samsagax from the ChimeraOS team for this driver.

While Heroic Games Launcher is a great Epic Games Store client for Linux, there’s another: Rare. Unlike Heroic, Rare is written in Python and does not use Electron as its base, thus saving your computer precious RAM. Quite a few new things released in this update, including a Settings for Epic Games Overlay, plenty of UI fixes, general bug fixes and typos corrected, and plenty of other features. Changelog is as follows:

I try not to get into off-topic posts too often…but I had to make an exception for this. If you follow me on either Mastodon or Twitter, you might have noticed that once in a great while I post some of my own fanart…drawings of the main protagonist of my favorite TV show, My Life as a Teenage Robot. Turns out having friends have benefits. I’m well-acquinted with one of the ChimeraOS developers.

I hadn’t watched this year’s Gamescon, but thanks to Steam Deck HQ, they did a quick summary of the games presented. One particular game that caught my eye was High on Life. It’s a humorous FPS with aliens. The gun the main character uses has a personality and talks to him. Per the Steam store page description: Humanity is being threatened by an alien cartel who wants to use them as drugs.

Steam Deck Deck client beta gets a new configurator for desktop mode Deck invites are on the rise! I did a review of a stand/USB-C hub combo. Probably better off getting a JSAUX dock or the like new Spider-Man Remastered update further improves Deck support Steam Deck 2 is coming, based on the new booklet by Valve, although this had already been confirmed way back in November Linux Hardware don’t get the Tuxedo Pulse Gen 2 Linux Games 24 new games this week Software Updates GE-Proton7-30 adds Amazon Games compatibility and Protonfix for Flatout Ultimate Carnage Cemu 2.

Today’s beta Deck client update mostly focuses on bug fixes, plus the styling of command names in Steam Input has been improved. Patch notes are as follows: General Fixed scrolling on home recommended screen due to discovery queue Fixed issue where What’s New section was not populated properly Steam Input Replaced the Big Picture configurator in desktop mode with a windowed view of the new Configurator. This currently only applies to desktop mode on Steam Deck.

It’s nice to see third-party manufacturers come up with their own solutions ahead of the first-party release. In this case, since Valve has indefinitely delayed their docking station for the Steam Deck (and there’s still no news of it since), there’s other solutions that we can use in the meantime. I got in touch with Steve from Etsy (DeadEyeVR). Though he mostly specializes in VR products, he happens to have a Steam Deck hub available, and he was willing to send a review unit over.

One thing that always turned me off about Cemu – the Wii U emulator – was the fact that it was closed-source. Nearly eight years after the creation of the emulator, it is now fully open-source and licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Not only this, but the emulator now has Linux builds available, although for the time being you’ll have to compile the emulator from source: Right now you still have to compile Cemu yourself for most distros.

Denuvo knows how to ruin everything about the digital gaming economy. Just a few months ago they started DRM’ing DLC. Now they’re expanding to emulated Nintendo Switch games. How on earth they’re going to be able to figure that out is beyond me. By preventing piracy on Switch while blocking unauthorized emulations on PC, studios are able to increase their revenue during the game launch window, which is the most important period in regard to monetization.