Not only has the game enjoyed massive popularity – as it sold over one million copies in just its’ first week – but now it’s been ported over to ARM. Any retro gaming device you can think of, such as the ODROID Go Advance or the various ARM-powered devices by Anbernic, can now play this game. Looks like you’ll need to have a copy of the game on Steam first before you can copy it over to your SD card and play on a retro console/handheld.

Small update for the Steam Deck has rolled out today as beta, primarily focusing on bug fixes. Patch notes are as follows:

• Fixed a bug where some flatpak applications (like Edge) couldn't successfully quit - Fixed some issues with claiming Steam Deck digital rewards - Updated keyboard behavior for improved fast typing on trackpad and touchscreen. (pressing a key while holding another key will now commit the held key instead of waiting for first to release) Note that this is a beta client update and, as such, you will need to be opted into the Beta or Preview update branch in System Settings in order to download it.

Today’s update to Proton Experimental is a small one, but a good one for those of you who were recently experiencing issues with either Assassin’s Creed: Origins or Warframe. The former should no longer hang during gameplay after the recent update to the game, and the latter’s launcher should no longer be empty (apparently it was an experimental regression). EDIT: today’s update also enables compatibility with Rift, I had overlooked that!

Just a few minutes ago doitsujin from GitHub released a new version of DXVK, 1.10.2. It’s been a few months since the previous 1.10.1 release. 1.10.2 mostly focuses on bug fixes and adds workarounds for a few specific titles. For example, Star Wars: The Old Republic has had rendering issues fixed. Limbo now has a 60 FPS limit as a workaround for a few bugs. All of this and some other more generic fixes that I couldn’t even attempt to translate into basic English if I tried.

This had been Tweeted way back in October, but Pavel Djundik, founder of SteamDB, discovered via datamining that QR code scanning could potentially become a thing on the Steam Deck when logging into your Steam account, as you can see in the cover photo. Well, turns out it could become a reality…within the next couple of weeks I would imagine, as Pavel recently replied to his own Tweet and said:

Whelp, looks like LTT beat me to the Switch emulation guide I was planning on doing. But that’s not the point of this post. Content creators – and small ones, at that – have had their videos ripped off their channel from the DMCA-hungry lawyers at Nintendo just for showing off gameplay footage of Switch games being emulated on the Deck. Well, Anthony from LTT decided to take matters into his own hands, braced himself, and put up a full guide on how to emulate Switch games on Deck (mind you, he’s doing it through a completely legal means).

A new beta update is now available for the Steam Deck client. Notable features with this update are the ability to schedule when night mode should turn on and off (no need to install the plugin anymore!), and the option to scale the Steam Deck UI when the Deck is connected to an external display. There’s also a toggle to automatically scale the UI to the appropriate size when connected to said display.

Another week, another update for the fabulous Proton Experimental. Newly playable titles with this update include: Aquarist - My First Job Trove Disgaea 5 Plants Vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 Bug fixes include: Monkey Island 2 and UNO should now be playable after an experimental regression Hardspace: Shipbreaker should now connect to online services See the patch notes on GitHub. Changes in bold are the latest to be added. Cover image credit: cgmagonline.

UPDATE: Valve will reportedly be using the Flatpak version of Firefox with the next update to SteamOS 3.3, according to an update from GamingOnLinux. Well, at least the stock version of Firefox supplied with SteamOS. It’s come to my attention, thanks to Quinn from our Matrix channel, that SteamOS is using a highly outdated version of Firefox. The latest version is 102.0.1, which came out today. However, the latest build on SteamOS, even on the beta 3.

Exactly a year ago I had conducted an overview of how Xbox Game Pass fares on Linux, over on Boiling Steam. One of the critical remarks I had about it was the streaming quality being terrible. Even if you had Gigabit Ethernet, you were forced to use Microsoft Edge to get that so-called “Clarity Boost,” and while it helped a little, the overall image quality was a disappointment. Well, perhaps to no one’s surprise, it appears Microsoft deliberately throttles the video quality on Linux.