I now have renewed interest in playing the original Metroid Prime for the GameCube. Why’s that? Because there’s this GORGEOUS HD mod that has finally been released after four years in the making. Just look at the screenshots yourself. The game still looks great nearly 20 years later, but now it got a fan-made upgrade in the visual department that makes it look like the game came out not even five years ago.

Last night ChimeraOS – the distro that turns your PC into a gaming console, similar to SteamOS 3.0 – version 32 was released. The kernel was upgraded to 5.17.1, the Mesa drivers were upgraded to 22.0.1, the NVIDIA driver was upgraded to 510.54, and a few other components also received an upgrade, including steamos-compositor-plus and RetroArch. In addition to software upgrades, some other changes have been made. The GOG launcher script, for instance, has been improved to allow better compatibility, and the Deck UI has a fix for missing artwork, including from games outside of Steam, such as Epic, Flathub, etc.

Wow. Earlier today New World became playable on Proton. Now we’ve added yet another game playable from our Steam Deck library: Back 4 Blood. If we take a look at the patch notes for this month, you’ll notice this as the last bullet under the “New Features” section: Developer Note: We have made an experimental change that we believe will make the game playable on Proton platforms such as the Steam Deck, SteamOS, and Linux.

Yesterday a new blog post was submitted on the Ryujinx website. I wanted to extract some of the highlights of this post. To start things off, graphics are now more “stable” on OpenGL with Intel and AMD GPUs. Though games like Pokémon Legends Arceus displayed just fine with Ryujinx’s Vulkan build, previously the game would look horrendous: That’s no longer the case: Game Builder Garage and WarioWare: Get it Together! had a few GPU regressions fixed.

New World is a pretty massive hit. On Steam Charts, the game has recorded an all-time high of 913,027 players. Almost 18k have played as of the past hour. For a while, the game couldn’t run on Linux through Proton due to the EAC it had. But it seems like that’s no longer the case. YouTuber CTRL ALT REBOOT got some footage of the game running on Linux Mint. The Reddit post mentions “after Apex Legends was patched for EAC on Linux, it seems that now New World got the same treatment,” and noted that the game runs “fairly well” with some stuttering here and there (probably shaders getting compiled).

Are you a fan of the Budgie desktop environment? Well, you can hear about the project’s upcoming plans later this month. By participating in the event you also have the opportunity to provide feedback. For those unaware, the Budgie desktop environment, as the page for it on Wikipedia mentions, is focused on “simplicity, minimalism, and elegance” and is tightly integrated with the GNOME stack, such as GTK. It is the default DE shipped with Solus.

Leave it up to Nintendo’s fans to properly fix emulating Nintendo 64 games (or actually, play the game on native hardware), rather than the crappy service that members get on the Switch for $50/year. I won’t re-hash the fact that Zelda: Ocarina of Time got a reverse-engineered port to PC. Chances are you probably already knew that. What you might not have noticed, however, is with Open Ocarina, there is an experimental 60 FPS feature, in addition to widescreen support, support for higher resolutions, gyroscope, and modern controls.

Steam Deck Steam Deck gets keyboard improvements Valve puts up a video that goes over all the things the company has done since the past month as far as Steam Deck improvements EmuDeck isn’t the only solution for emulation on the Deck: there’s also RetroDECK dbrand now has skins for the Deck Deck client received an update for quicker offline mode, dual trackpad updates, and plenty of other additions Steam Deck ships twice a week now during certain weeks Boiling Steam wrote a post on making the Steam Deck a laptop with 3D-printed parts Software Updates New version of GE-Proton is out: 7-14 (updated since 7-12) New version of vanilla Proton: 7.

A few days ago, Valve released Proton 7.0-2rc. This new release brings quite a few new playable games, including One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4, Metal Slug 2 and 3, Dragon Quest Builders 2, Guilty Gear Isuka, King of Fighters XIII, and a few others. There’s also a ton of bug fixes, ranging from Unity games crashing when certain peripherals were connected to the computer, certain games getting better Steam Deck compatibility, multiplayer in UNO, video playback, crashes, audio missing in cutscenes, launcher fixes, and a whole lot more.

As a kid, I loved the original Toy Story animated movie. Fast forward almost 30 years later, and I find myself reliving that toy-figures-come-to-life nostalgia, albeit in a more mature setting with guns. HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed is a first- and third-person shooter where you’re in control of a toy action figure. That action figure could be a Ryu look-alike, a reptile, a Storm Trooper look-alike, an insect, a standard human, and plenty of other species.