Good things just seem to keep coming to Project Heartbeat. Last month the game got an audio engine overhaul. Now we’ve got a UI skin editor, with Steam workshop integration. You can use your own textures and fonts. Even animated textures are supported. Apparently a health system has been incorporated as well. Meaning if you miss too many beats, game over. Since this is a beta, you’ll need to opt-in to the beta branch in the game’s properties menu.

About a month ago I had talked about a portable Linux distro that gives a SteamOS 3-like experience: winesapOS. Well, as is the traditional case with open-source forks in the Linux landscape of things, we’ve got another one: HoloISO. I’d still recommend the former over the latter, as winesapOS can be used on any device without installing, and comes with a bunch of extra gaming-related packages, but if you’re looking for something a little more minimal, you might want to give HoloISO a try.

A few days ago, GE-Proton7-16 was released. Not too much going on in this update, but a patch was added to fix a crash in Elden Ring when playing said game with fsync. Video playback updates, as well as Steam client updates, have been fetched from upstream Proton. Of course tools like dxvk and vkd3d-proton have also been updated to the latest git. Have a full look at the patch notes on GitHub.

Steam Deck over 2.4k verified/playable games! looking for a guide on using the Deck as a desktop? Look no further than podiki’s guide on Boiling Steam big update launched this week, including a lock screen, localized keyboards, and plenty more new beta update: SteamOS 3.2. Adds customizable refresh rate and better fan control you can fix fan noise with electrical tap, but Valve warns that doing so will void your warranty Filelight allows you to see what’s taking up the most space on your hard drive new skin by dbrand: teardown Native Linux Games 29 new Linux native games released on Steam, including The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Turbo Overkill, a DOOM-like FPS, should have native Linux support with the 1.

SteamTinkerLaunch – the massive Swiss army knife when it comes to managing your Proton-based games on Steam – hit a new milestone with the release of version 10, codenamed “Bagatelle.” One major feature that was added is initial Steam Deck support. Though the script doesn’t get installed as a Flatpak, you can simply download the steamtinkerlaunch script from the project’s GitHub and start it as deck user. You can actually navigate across the different options with the Deck’s built-in controls.

It was my last day at work. It’s early morning, around 7 o’clock, and the usual gang of employees who do nothing for the first hour are standing in a circle. Some of them have a cup of coffee in their hand, listening as the manager of the company is talking about something. What that something was, I can’t remember. Probably what he did over the weekend. I happened to enter the “circle” just a few minutes before I clock out.

YouTuber The Phawx recently uploaded a video that lowers the Steam Deck’s refresh rate to 40 Hz for smoother gameplay. However, it was done through Windows. Well, now it’s possible to lower the refresh rate on the Steam Deck than the default 60 Hz with Valve’s SteamOS. Additionally, users have better control over the device’s fan “to improve the experience in low usage scenarios.” Here’s the patch notes for SteamOS 3.

Though it has been confirmed that the Delta varient of the Steam Deck contains the whining fan noise, and though iFixit is trying to secure replacement fans, there’s a relatively easy fix that you can do right at the comfort of your own home, and chances are you’ll already have it available: electrical tape. A Redditor made a post about it. They recorded before and after the fix. All they did was take the back plate off the Steam Deck (just eight screws) and put some electrical tape behind the Valve logo.

Ryujinx – the Nintendo Switch emulator – will no longer be supported on Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and even builds of Windows 10 from 2018 and older, beginning June 1st. After that, the emulator won’t even run on those systems. The development team mentioned in their Tweet that “it’s not feasible anymore” to support these versions of Windows. Their reasoning is as follows: Graphics driver updates have ended for these systems.

So, those of you who may have been turned off by the fact that I initially went with Twitter can now rejoice, since I’ll primarily be using Mastodon as a means of social media for LGC. Twitter will be a backup in the event I need to get a hold of someone that otherwise isn’t available on Mastodon. Not going to get into the whole Musk buying Twitter thing, but that was part of the reason for the move.