Someone had recently wrote a ProtonDB report for Fall Guys that adds instructions to get the game to work through Proton. When Easy Anti-Cheat was added to the game a few years ago, unfortunately the massively popular game would no longer work on Linux with Proton. According to the new ProtonDB report, the good news now is it’s apparently playable on Proton once again. The report adds the following instructions:

Tunic is an isometric, Zelda-like game that was in development for some seven years. Most of the development of the game, including programming, 3D modeling, and map design, was all done by one guy: Andrew Shouldice. Andrew would later recruit other team members to help with the music and sound effects. Tunic released a few weeks ago on Steam and Xbox. Here’s my thoughts. You play as an adorable Fox, clothed in green garb (a nod to Link in the Zelda series).

A Portal 2 mod that’s been in the works for several years is Portal 2: Desolation. It’s a fan-made mod that features a brand new campaign, a new model for shooting portals, new characters, and more. From the looks of it it’s set to be the community’s version of Portal 3, set years after the events of Portal 2 (I wonder if J.K. Simmons will re-prise his role as Cave Johnson).

DXVK – a translation layer that converts Direct3D calls into Vulkan, and a major component of Valve’s Proton project – was recently updated this weekend to 1.10.1. This adds video playback support in a few Koei Tecmo games (particularly for the Atelier series and Nioh 2), and apparently supports the D3D11-based UI in the Windows version of Black Mesa (note that Black Mesa is natively available on Linux). DXVK 1.10.1 also includes a series of bug fixes and improvements.

It’s been said plenty enough: the Nintendo Switch is in dire need of a hardware upgrade. That’s for sure. Fortunately, passionate programmers and modders out there have made playing Nintendo Switch games via emulation a much better experience. In the case with Kirby and the Forgotten Land, the framerate is capped to 30 FPS. In a modern day and age where we’re used to ultra-fast speeds of 60, 144, or even higher framerates, that 30 FPS cap can be headache-inducing.

In an effort to be as transparent with the community as possible, I wanted to inform you all that earlier today I had incorporated Plausible Analytics. This is an open-source alternative to Google Analytics that respects both your privacy and mine. The purpose for the analytics is twofold: I can see what articles get the most clicks and therefore allows me to determine what type of articles I should prioritize. It also allows me to see from what source the most traffic is coming from (which, at the moment, is Reddit) and use that platform to advertise my articles.

Steam Deck On the desktop, users can now get an alert on the Steam client when their pre-order is ready to purchase It won’t be long before we reach the 2,000 mark for Steam Deck verified/playable titles. So far we’ve got over 1,700 It seems Bandai Namco is the company that has the most Deck verified/playable titles out of any other publisher. They have 20 at the time of writing this The Steam Deck client got an update with bug fixes, performance improvements across the Steam store, and new features Discord Overlay now works on the Deck Users can now report whether a game was correctly verified or not.

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.