Ever wanted to quickly launch Flatpak applications from the Quick Access menu without having to add them as shortcuts on Steam in Desktop Mode? Or automatically enable the night light when it’s the right time? Or customize the CPU frequency? Play music? Customize the Home screen to look like the Switch’s home menu? That’s all possible thanks to Steam Deck plugins. The best part: just run a few commands from the terminal, and install your plugins from the plugins “store.

For those who are still waiting on their Decks to arrive, know that I feel your pain. I had to wait a long time too. But if there’s any sort of comfort that I can give, it would be that FedEx – the company responsible for shipping Valve’s handheld PC – will soon be rolling out a program for delivery drivers to take photos of their deliveries, proving that they actually delivered to the customer.

Prepare to burn a hole in your pocket as the Steam Summer Sale is now live. Sale will go on until July 7th. Here’s some notable titles on sale: DRAG – 75% off, native Them’s Fightin’ Herds – 40% off, native Project Heartbeat – 40% off, native Gang Beasts – 50% off, native Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – 25% off Forza Horizon 4 – 67% off TUNIC – 10% off Hot Wheels Unleashed – 50% off Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl – 70% off Guilty Gear -Strive- – 40% off Hades – 40% off Among many others.

A new update should be available in your Steam client for Proton Experimental, which landed just a few hours ago. Newly playable titles include The Rising of the Shield Hero: Relive The Animation and Paladins. Tekken 7 should no longer crash at launch. Also, several titles, particularly those using the Unity engine, no longer require the MFDXGI hack, including Rust, The Long Dark, Monster Train, V Rising, and many others. In other words, video playback in these games have been improved; they shouldn’t have any graphical distortion anymore.

I wanted to briefly talk about the trilogy of Metroid Prime games running on the Deck. In a nutshell: it works pretty great. Not flawless by any means but you’d be surprised at how well the controls work. All you have to do to get up and running is to run the EmuDeck script on your Steam Deck. Then copy your Trilogy ISO to /home/deck/Emulation/roms/primehacks/. Exit Steam in Desktop Mode, and add artwork with Steam ROM Manager.

One of the first things I wanted to do after getting my Steam Deck was test Super Smash Bros. Melee. Not just to see how well it performs, but also examine online play and see how the controls feel in my hands. How to Get Melee/Slippi Working on Deck If you’re looking at getting online play set up on Linux, you can refer to the guide I wrote a few months back.

I’m fortunate to have the Huaying fan in my Deck (the quieter fan), but the folks at Linus Tech Tips decided to take matters into their own hands with the Delta fans: putting in a heatsink and fan into the unit. I won’t get into detail about it, but essentially Linus dremel-cut the back part of the Deck so a custom-shaped piece of aluminum could be fit into the device. A heatsink was then applied on top with some thermal paste, and they even went so far as to attach a fan to it.

Steam Deck I got a Deck! More to come in the next few weeks Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade is now available on Steam and is Deck Verified new website to look out for: Steam Deck HQ. Describes what are the best settings for certain games on Deck Native Games Them’s Fightin’ Herds gets level 3 supers BeamNG.drive adds experimental Linux support Feral Interactive has ported Total War: Warhammer III to Linux 19 new games released this week Hardware I did a review on the HP Dev One.

While Valve might have given me the middle finger by never giving me a review unit of the Steam Deck, I’m now happy to report the one that I pre-ordered had finally shown up at my door this morning. So what does this mean for LGC? Well, I’ve got the following articles planned, in no particular order (I may also not do them if I lose interest): a full review. I heavily debated on this one.

SteamTinkerLaunch – an awesome wrapper for games played through Proton – is now available on Flathub. Seems like the link isn’t available on Flathub directly, but you should be able to install the app with: flatpak install com.valvesoftware.Steam.Utility.steamtinkerlaunch Great news for you Steam Deck owners! Or for those of you who primarily use Flatpaks as your applications. Check out the overview of SteamTinkerLaunch on Boiling Steam.