Steam Deck over 2,600 verified/playable titles Final Fantasy VII Remake runs great small update adds more keyboard layouts PowerTools is a plugin that enables the user to tweak even more power settings Kodi adds Deck control support want to try an unofficial version of SteamOS 3 on a device outside of the Deck? Try HoloISO Software Updates (Wine, Bottles, MangoHUD, FNA, Ryujinx, etc) Wine updated to 7.8 with plenty of bug fixes, X11 and OSS drivers converted to PE, and a few other features Bottles gets an update with a crashing bug fix.

The podcast that Kiwi Talkz had with Eric Wolpaw – one of Valve’s writers – has been reported on by many media outlets. Specifically about bringing Portal 3 to life. “Let’s do it!” Wolpaw says. “I’m not getting any younger.” But here’s the problem: Wolpaw doesn’t have much “power” at Valve. Someone higher up at the corporation would have to give the green light in order for them to even consider it.

It’s not often that a game developer reveals the sales numbers for their games. But I noticed a Reddit post by the developer of the puzzle game Rob Riches who goes over not only the total sales of the game, but how many copies were sold per platform. A total of 266 copies were sold. 237 of those copies were bought on Windows. 27 were bought on Linux. That’s a little over 10% of total sales!

As of Ryujinx version 1.1.112, users can now seamlessly load mods on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with the use of ARCropolis/Skyline. Here’s how to do it. Note: this tutorial is based off of the guide from GameBanana, but specifically tailored to Linux users. TL:DR Get yourself set up with emulating Switch games on Linux with this guide if you haven’t already Download Ryujinx and run it for the first time Download ARCropolis, extract zip to %RYU_DIR%/sdcard/ Download Skyline, extract to %RYU_DIR%/sdcard/atmosphere/contents/01006A800016E000/ Download any mod (plenty of them over on GameBanana), extract them to %RYU_DIR%/sdcard/ultimate/mods/ Launch the game.

If you’re not familiar with ARCropolis, it’s “a modding framework for loading and managing community-made mods and plugins,” while making use of the Skyline on-the-fly patcher. Primarily this is for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but who knows, it could work for other games down the road. Previously, making use of a mod or testing it required putting it on a hacked Switch. Now that ARCropolis and Skyline have been merged with the mainline Ryujinx build as of version 1.

For those who aren’t aware, Jason Evangelho is the creator of the Linux For Everyone YouTube channel. He’s also a writer at Forbes. He’s probably got a lot more on his plate now that he recently Tweeted about being the marketing manager for Mozilla Thunderbird, a very popular email client. Per the Tweet, Jason mentioned that as the marketing manager, he will “be helping out with comms on social media (including here), crafting content for the website, and handling the Thunderbird newsletter.

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.