Godot 4 is a pretty major release for the open-source game engine. As such, the developers behind the project have entered into the double-digits territory: alpha 10. New features with this alpha include initial support for temporal anti-aliasing (TAA), a CLI tool to convert your older Godot 3.x projects to the version 4 API, and a TileMap terrain center bit to support “connect” and “path” draw modes. Here you can observe the difference in graphical quality with TAA disabled, per the pull request:

A new version of the Heroic Games Launcher has shipped today, as a beta. That would be version 2.4.0. Included in this update are the following: plenty of UI/UX improvements, including a unified library between Epic Games and GOG games, a download progress bar on the left, and the ability to change game language several bug fixes, including the setting of controller on boot being disabled Linux-specific things; CrossOver support is gone, but now there’s an option to display the Wine executable path minor cleanup of things like the game setting keys being the only thing saved to the game config file during installation The stable 2.

I’m noticing a trend where each new release of Proton adds several new games and bug fixes. Shortly following the update to Proton Experimental earlier today, we now have the official release of Proton 7.0-3. Newly playable titles with this release include: Age of Chivalry Beneath a Steel Sky Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamer Edition Cities XXL Cladun X2 Cursed Armor Flanarion Tactics Gary Grigsby’s War in the East Gary Grigsby’s War in the West Iragon: Prologue MechWarrior Online Small Radios Big Televisions Split/Second Star Wars Episode I Racer Stranger of Sword City Revisited Succubus x Saint V Rising Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide We Were Here Forever Bug fixes include:

Them’s Fightin’ Herds – a fighting game featuring adorable animals – has finally received an update. The last update was shipped in February. But we’ve got some great things to look forward to with the 3.0 update. Probably the biggest thing is the introduction of level 3 supers (have a look at the trailer; they’re pretty flashy). This will certainly change the meta of the game, for sure. All characters have been adjusted, whether cosmetic features have been added as part of their moveset, some of their moves have been balanced, and/or received bug fixes.

DRAG is a tough-as-nails racing game that’s available natively on Linux. It went to Steam in early access, and it hasn’t been updated in over a year (and unsurprisingly, the developers didn’t get back to me when I asked on their Discord how progress was coming along). But now it seems like we’ve finally got an update. Not an actual software update; just a general update on what the roadmap for the game is.

Small update for Steam Deck users has landed today. Performance has been improved for the Recent Games carousel on the Home screen, and a few bug fixes have been added. Changelog is as follows: Improved performance for the Home screen Recent Games carousel Fixed boot glitching and crashes experienced by some customers Fixed Quick Access volume sliders not working after suspend/resume Fixed an issue in the controller reorder screen where moving to a controller slot higher than the current number of connected controllers would show as ‘!

A fan of Capcom games? Get a bunch of them from Humble Bundle for cheap! The base $1 tier has the following: Street Fighter V Strider Bionic Commando The mid $10 tier adds: Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen DmC: Devil May Cry Ultra Street Fighter IV 50% off coupon for the Champion Edition upgrade for SFV The highest tier at $20 adds: Monster Hunter: World DmC 5 DmC HD Collection 50% off coupon for Monster Hunter Rise The bundle will be gone in two weeks.

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl got a much-needed quality-of-life update. Previously, characters had no voices, although you could technically mod them in. It made matches feel empty. Well that’s no longer the case as of today’s update. All characters now have voices as they jump, do a smash attack, or taunt. I’m happy to see my favorite character, Jenny Wakeman, still voiced by the same actress as the show that she was in: Janice Kawaye.

Small update for today. Several titles on Steam have recently been playable or verified on the Steam Deck. Titles range from: Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus (also 80% off till June 8th) Demon’s Tilt Ghost on the Shore Wally and the Fantastic Predators (also received a native Linux port) Arietta of Spirits (already had Deck support but now has better support for 30 Hz) Ender Lilies Great to see more and more developers get on board with supporting the Steam Deck!

Proton Experimental has been updated since yesterday and adds bug fixes for several games, including Final Fantasy XIV and Mortal Kombat Komplete. Changes include: Fix S&box not finding any games to join. Fix The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki Kai failing to start. Fix Cladun X2 displaying textures incorrectly on AMD GPUs. Fix We Were Here Forever hanging on exit. Fix Split/Second freezing on keyboard input. Fix LAN multiplayer in Split/Second.