Steam Deck⌗

it’s possible to play Half-Life: Alyx without VR
SteamGridDB is an awesome plugin to customize the artwork for your Steam games
Monday’s beta client update removes modal dialog when uninstalling games, along with a few fixes
Wednesday’s beta client update adds a fix for the install location dialog
Super Indie Karts gets full Deck support

Hardware⌗

ChimeraOS 40 adds OOTB sound support for Steam Deck, adds a few more supported emulators. 41 adds a hotfix for users using 4K with an AMD GPU
Wine 8.5 adds a dark theme and upgrades VKD3D to 1.7
Proton Experimental 3.31.2023 fixes Fall Guys, Returnal, and King of Fighters XV

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is a free visual novel
Smash clones can’t keep up
“How do you dislike a Tweet again?” – coming from the words of Griffais, in regards to the “dangers” of emulation
Valve to stop supporting Windows 7/8/8.1 in January
Dolphin emulator coming to Steam
Nintendo, of all people, contributed to a Vulkan extension
Boiling Steam asks for this year’s Linux gaming predictions from the likes of The Linux Experiment, Luke Short, James Ramey from CodeWeavers, and more
in case you haven’t already heard, this year’s E3 is cancelled