Steam Deck⌗

  • The Verge did an interesting interview with Pierre-Loup Griffais and Lawrence Yang regarding Steam Deck 2, Steam Controller 2, and their thoughts on the 6800U
  • Crisis Core remake works great
  • Tuesday’s client update (beta) fixes OSK on game exit and adds support for the Armor-X Pro attachment
  • Wednesday’s client update (beta) adds better UI scaling at higher resolutions and adds Xbox Elite/Switch Pro layout preview pages
  • Thursday’s client update (beta) fixes gamepad focus issue on the Steam store, adds minor fixes to login UI layout
  • SteamOS 3.4 gets a “Tamed Keys” update that fixes the OSK crashing the graphics driver in Desktop Mode when it’s dismissed. 3.4 also got a Death Stranding map fix, and stable 3.3 gets a hotfix “to enable compatibility with future input firmware”

Hardware⌗

  • Phoronix does an overview of the newly released RX 7900 XT/XTX cards (lucky bastard!). Seems like it does far better than the RTX 3090
  • Tesla model S and X cars get Steam support

Software Updates⌗

  • Slippi 3.0.0 gets ranked matchmaking!
  • Kernel 6.1 adds Rust infrastructure, faster ext4 and btrfs, better support for Nintendo knockoff gamepads
  • VKD3D-Proton 2.8 further reduces CPU overhead, and you should be able to run The Witcher 3 in DX12, with a few asterisks
  • Proton gets a hotfix for The Witcher 3’s DX12 update
  • Bottles 2022.12.14 supports multiple launch arguments, gets a revamped library page
  • Heroic Games Launcher 2.5.2 adds framerate limiter option, Arm64 Mac OS support
  • Cemu 2.0-21 gets Vulkan on Wayland support

Other⌗

Cover image credit: Pierre-Loup Griffais