Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl got a much-needed quality-of-life update. Previously, characters had no voices, although you could technically mod them in. It made matches feel empty. Well that’s no longer the case as of today’s update. All characters now have voices as they jump, do a smash attack, or taunt. I’m happy to see my favorite character, Jenny Wakeman, still voiced by the same actress as the show that she was in: Janice Kawaye.

Welcome to LGC’s first hardware review! When it comes to audio, I’m a bit of an audiophile. I’ve owned several headphones; some were really good, others not so much. I’m particularly a fan of headphones that deliver deep bass. I recently discovered the Hecate G33BT from Edifier. Bought it on sale on eBay. I’ve never heard of the company before, didn’t even bother to check any reviews before I bought it, but I got it anyway.

Small update for today. Several titles on Steam have recently been playable or verified on the Steam Deck. Titles range from: Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus (also 80% off till June 8th) Demon’s Tilt Ghost on the Shore Wally and the Fantastic Predators (also received a native Linux port) Arietta of Spirits (already had Deck support but now has better support for 30 Hz) Ender Lilies Great to see more and more developers get on board with supporting the Steam Deck!

Steam Deck docking station delayed indefinitely we could be seeing Rust officially supported soon apparently the Deck represents over 5% of the 1% of Linux market share (if that made any sense) Valve releases an update video that goes over all the progress the company has made on the device over the past few months. The top 10 most played games on Deck are all Verified new Deck client update allows users to force a higher resolution than native Native Linux Games Season 2 update to Splitgate adds a new matchmaking system, plus plenty of other updates 31 new native titles launched on Steam Software Updates Proton Experimental adds several bug fixes Proton 7.

Proton Experimental has been updated since yesterday and adds bug fixes for several games, including Final Fantasy XIV and Mortal Kombat Komplete. Changes include: Fix S&box not finding any games to join. Fix The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki Kai failing to start. Fix Cladun X2 displaying textures incorrectly on AMD GPUs. Fix We Were Here Forever hanging on exit. Fix Split/Second freezing on keyboard input. Fix LAN multiplayer in Split/Second.

A few weeks ago I had mentioned HP collaborating with the team at System76 to bring Pop!_OS to the HP Dev One laptop. Well, you can now purchase the laptop on the official site. “System76 is thrilled to work with HP to advance open source and bring the Linux desktop to a much wider audience,” said Carl Richell, CEO, System76. “By bringing together our engineering, marketing, and customer support, System76 with HP are introducing HP Dev One to combine powerful hardware with optimized Pop!

If you have Splitgate installed on your system, prepare for a massive 15 GB update. Season 2 for the Halo-meets-Portal shooter has now landed. Key features include: a new matchmaking system, making it more likely you will pair with people who are the same skill level as you new battle pass with a crapton of skins remastered version of the Abyss stage new game modes: Juggernaut, Hotzone, and Lockdown revamped progression system various adjustments to guns, from fire rate to ammo count and everything in-between updated UI improvements to the map editor other smaller details Check the official blog post for more info.

In a move that probably surprised no one, Valve has delayed the production of the docking station for the Steam Deck. No word on when it will become available to purchase or what it will cost. “We’re working on improving the situation and will share more info when we have it,” the post from Valve mentions. Good news is the docking station is being manufactured at a different facility than the one the Steam Deck is.

A few weeks ago, NoiseTorch, the popular application that filters out background noise from your microphone, seemed to have been compromised. After a few audits were made by the community, it appears that no malicious code has been found. In version 0.12.0, a few updates have also landed. Some C components were removed as part of a “small spring cleanup,” a more clear UI better indicates to the user what’s going on, and security has been improved by adding “several GitHub actions to automatically validate and verify the code we have written and will write in the future.

Earlier today Valve released an update to the stable branch of the Steam client. Included in the update is an important fix for Linux and Mac OS users: filesystems that don’t support pre-allocation (FAT32 or ExFAT, for instance) should no longer fail when installing a game or a game update. For the Steam Deck, color quality has been fixed when streaming from a Linux host. A streaming connection should remain intact when Steam has been restarted.