Time to shake things up a bit and talk about a Nintendo Switch game: Kirby and the Forgotten Land. If you prefer Linux-exclusive news, just let me know in the comments. But do note I played the entirety of this game on Linux, thanks to Ryujinx. Haven’t played a Kirby game in a long time. I think the last one I played was Kirby Air Ride for the GameCube. Something struck out to me when I was watching the trailer for this game though.

Here’s the logo, courtesy of a Fiverr artist by the name of bykai2: Eventually I’ll figure out how to put it directly on the top of the page…yeah, I’m a bit rusty when it comes to web development, but at least you can see the updated favicon, rather than the ordinary, square red icon on your tab from before. It’s also there on my Twitter account and the Matrix room.

Itorah is a metroidvania-style platformer developed by Grimbart Tales and published by Assemble Entertainment. You’re in control of a purple-haired girl who has the same name as the title of the game. She can’t talk, but her axe sure can. If you’ve played Indivisible, this game is a lot like that. Itorah is the only human being left in the world of Nahucan. Everyone else is an animal or a masked organism.

Numerous media outlets had reported about the fact that System76 – one of the most prominent Linux-based computer manufacturers out there – was going to tackle an enormous task. That would involve creating a new desktop environment, written in Rust. That was a little over four months ago. Fast forward to yesterday, Destination Linux interviewed Emma Marshall, vice president of customer care at System76. In the episode, Emma was asked what the purpose of this ambitious project was.

Proton GE. You might have heard that name tossed around somewhere, maybe seen some benchmarks done with it, but don’t know what it does. Well, this article will explain just that and the advantages it has over vanilla Proton. It also explains how to easily install it on your system and make use of it. What is it? The “GE” in Proton GE stands for “Glorious Eggroll.” Per the interview from Boiling Steam, the name came about from the developer playing “off the card of being Asian and really liking eggrolls, and being a generally lighthearted person.

Today marks the release of Linux kernel 5.17. Doesn’t seem to offer much of anything in the gaming landscape, but there’s hardware support for a bunch of new motherboards and processors. Here’s a basic rundown of what’s new: support for AMD’s new P-State driver for AMD Zen 2 APUs – this is particularly good news for the Steam Deck as that is the APU it’s using and P-State delivers better power efficiency.

I’ve added a link in the navigation bar to access LGC’s “timeless” articles. Guides, game reviews, interviews with developers, and whatever else I may cover. As LGC constantly provides new articles every day, these older articles can be difficult to find. So, I made this page to make finding these articles easier. So far I’ve got the Slippi guide, tips for playing GRID Legends on NVIDIA graphics cards, how to use the Steam Deck UI, the Project Heartbeat review, and a few developer interviews.

I invite you to take a look at the first step in the interview process at Canonical: Image credit: Reddit and the original poster Read that for a few minutes and tell me whether the interview process is absurd, or someone at Canonical has just too much time on their hands. First, the spelling error in the first sentence: “to joint the Ubuntu WSL engineering team.” Second, “very occasionally.” It should just be “occasionally.

Was hoping to get this out yesterday but time flies. Hope a day late isn’t going to bother anyone. News Steam Deck-related ETA Prime – A YouTuber that mostly focuses on emulation – released a Steam Deck review last week, and covers the gaming as well as the emulation aspect of the Deck. Needless to say, the Deck is one of the most powerful handhelds out there for emulation. Gameranx also had a video review That Boiling Steam contributer that got a Steam Deck?

Thomas Castleman is the creator of the Drauger OS distribution, based off of Ubuntu. Thomas’ goal is to provide gamers a pleasant gaming experience by shipping the Xanmod kernel, a lightweight desktop environment, and stability by using Ubuntu as the base. A while back I had reviewed the distro when it was in its’ early stages on Boiling Steam, but now I had wanted to check in with him and see how Drauger OS is doing these days.