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.

We finally got an update from Pine64. It looks like from here on out the monthly newsletter will be posted on the 28th of each month, though this is tentative. It’s been a whole year since you’ve been able to buy a Pinebook Pro. Now you can finally get one in late June or early July. Price will remain the same at $219, but the small caveat is the battery is 400 mAh smaller than the 2021 models, which had 10,000 mAh.

NVIDIA driver version 515.48.07 just got released today. This includes improved performance of applications run through GameScope, as well as plenty of bug fixes. Full patch notes are as follows: Published the source code to a variant of the NVIDIA Linux kernel modules dual-licensed as MIT/GPLv2. The source is available here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules and will be updated each driver release. Please see the “Open Linux Kernel Modules” chapter in the README for details.

Whelp, I found something interesting while I was browsing my Reddit feed this morning. Someone posted a photo of a Steam Deck…that’s in a jail cell. I’m 90% sure it’s a Photoshopped meme, though. I highly doubt a device like that would be allowed. The Deck in the photo is also mysteriously hovering in the air; you can’t see the hands on the sides of it. In case the background looks familiar, yes, the original poster confirmed this is in Alcatraz.

When it comes to x86-based handhelds, there’s plenty of them. Even before Valve’s announcement of the Steam Deck, companies like GPD, Aya Neo, and Onexplayer were making portable PC gaming a reality. Up until this point, however, none of them could compete as far as price. They generally cost about $1,000, give or take, giving the Steam Deck a huge cost advantage. Gabe Newell has repeatedly mentioned that getting the cost of the Deck to what it currently is was “painful.