General Linux Gaming Ubuntu is falling behind, but apparently the newly released Ubuntu 22.04 is “absolutely stunning.” We’re starting to see less and less games that are borked through Proton. Thanks, Valve and CodeWeavers, for all the hard work that you do 21 new games have been released on Steam with Linux support You can update the firmware on your DualSense controller with Sony’s new FW updater app. Works great with wine-ge-custom or GE-Proton The game Overgrowth has now gone open-source Steam Deck Looks like Metroid Prime Trilogy works very well with the Deck You can customize the theme on Steam The Deck was the Steam top seller for the week ending April 17 Variable refresh rate switching is “coming soon” Small Deck client update went out, adding a few bug fixes and some other features The dock, now called a “docking station,” has upgraded ports.

Software Updates ChimeraOS 32 was released this week, adding the usual software upgrades, fixes for Aya Neo, and improvements to certain areas openrazer – a collection of Linux drivers for various Razer peripherals – version 3.3.0 released, adding support for a plethora of new devices, improvements to the software, and a collection of bug fixes EndeavourOS, based on Arch, has received the “Apollo” release. This adds new features and bug fixes during the installation process, as well as after the system is installed.

Wow. Earlier today New World became playable on Proton. Now we’ve added yet another game playable from our Steam Deck library: Back 4 Blood. If we take a look at the patch notes for this month, you’ll notice this as the last bullet under the “New Features” section: Developer Note: We have made an experimental change that we believe will make the game playable on Proton platforms such as the Steam Deck, SteamOS, and Linux.

Yesterday a new blog post was submitted on the Ryujinx website. I wanted to extract some of the highlights of this post. To start things off, graphics are now more “stable” on OpenGL with Intel and AMD GPUs. Though games like Pokémon Legends Arceus displayed just fine with Ryujinx’s Vulkan build, previously the game would look horrendous: That’s no longer the case: Game Builder Garage and WarioWare: Get it Together! had a few GPU regressions fixed.

New World is a pretty massive hit. On Steam Charts, the game has recorded an all-time high of 913,027 players. Almost 18k have played as of the past hour. For a while, the game couldn’t run on Linux through Proton due to the EAC it had. But it seems like that’s no longer the case. YouTuber CTRL ALT REBOOT got some footage of the game running on Linux Mint. The Reddit post mentions “after Apex Legends was patched for EAC on Linux, it seems that now New World got the same treatment,” and noted that the game runs “fairly well” with some stuttering here and there (probably shaders getting compiled).

Steam Deck Steam Deck gets keyboard improvements Valve puts up a video that goes over all the things the company has done since the past month as far as Steam Deck improvements EmuDeck isn’t the only solution for emulation on the Deck: there’s also RetroDECK dbrand now has skins for the Deck Deck client received an update for quicker offline mode, dual trackpad updates, and plenty of other additions Steam Deck ships twice a week now during certain weeks Boiling Steam wrote a post on making the Steam Deck a laptop with 3D-printed parts Software Updates New version of GE-Proton is out: 7-14 (updated since 7-12) New version of vanilla Proton: 7.

A few days ago, Valve released Proton 7.0-2rc. This new release brings quite a few new playable games, including One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4, Metal Slug 2 and 3, Dragon Quest Builders 2, Guilty Gear Isuka, King of Fighters XIII, and a few others. There’s also a ton of bug fixes, ranging from Unity games crashing when certain peripherals were connected to the computer, certain games getting better Steam Deck compatibility, multiplayer in UNO, video playback, crashes, audio missing in cutscenes, launcher fixes, and a whole lot more.

While it was already big news that HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed (first/third-person shooter with toy soldiers) got a Linux port last Thursday, what’s even better is the in-game servers are now cross-platform between the Windows and Linux clients. Previously, the Linux version did not pick up any servers that were hosted on Windows, but after getting in touch with the developers, I can now confirm the servers work between the two operating systems.

News Some drama going around concerning the workforce behind the elementaryOS project. Cassidy James, one of the core developers behind the distro, recently left after working on the project for over 10 years It’s possible to run x86-based games on ARM thanks to box86 A game that’s been out for a few years recently got a Linux port: HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed. It’s also Steam Deck Verified. Just be aware that, for the time being, the Linux servers are not yet cross-compatible with Windows servers.

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.