LinuxGameCast Weekly

Valve just announced a new Steam Machine, a new VR headset, and a new Steam Controller. That is one hell of a way to wrap things up.

Steam Decks new sleepy-time downloads, resurrecting MicroVolts with ToyBattlesHQ, Dwarf Fortress dehydrated baby bug, OpenMW gamepad improvements, ARM Wine developments, and the new Arduboy FXC.

Windows users scramble to find a new excuses not to switch to Linux, the Steam Controller 2 Triton appears in the latest Steam update

Linux outperforms Windows on the Asus ROG Ally X! SuperTuxKart 1.5 is full of eggs, Ship of Harkinian gets a built-in MOD menu, and turning coil whine into music with OCCT.

DOOM: The Dark Ages is now Steam Deck Verified! GOG tracks down rights holders, DynaCache speeds up gaming on ARM, a room with 4K text adventures, and a wearable keyboard controller?

Valve is reportedly preparing around half a million headsets for the holidays, new action brawler Genokids has a demo, several games patch a nasty Unity vulnerability, Hyper Neo Geo 64 gets MAMEd, and

TF2 Classic is headed to NextFest, resurrecting Asheron's Call, MARVEL invades Linux, and Microsoft crashes Game Pass.

SteamOS fixes the headphone jump scare and improves Bluetooth wakeup. Baldurs Gate 3 sees a small FPS boost on the Deck with native support. Sonic Secret Rings fan remake now has full controller support and new music. Someone unlocks the 40K games owned

Steam Frame rumors debunked, Bloober Team surprises with a Linux build of Cronos The New Dawn, Counter Strike 2 rolls out not loot boxes, RingRacers gets proximity voice chat, and Nvidias $5 billion Intel stake is not the end of ARC.

Valves Fremont leaks spark console and VR speculation, Steam rolls out language-based review changes, Silksong gets its first patch, Framework unveils

Teenage Engineering announces its free PC case, PayPal pulls the plug on Steam, penny-sized SSDs debut

Valve reminds everyone that Steam is available for Chromebooks, classic PS1 title Sonic gets major updates, Counter-Strike 2 switches to Wayland for a day

The developer of DuckStation PS1 emulator threatens to drop Linux support, Steam updates its video player, Silksong will be playable at Gamescom

Payment processors come after itch.io, Steam tests new menus, Fallout 1 gets a 3D remake, an unofficial GeForce NOW Linux client appears, and AMD Anti-Lag lands in Mesa.

Payment processors now dictate what games can be published on the Steam store, Milk-V announces a RISC-V Titan, lossless scaling comes to Linux, and gamers are a bunch of drunken sailors who spend mon

Steam enables Proton by default! Someone recreated Halo in Half-Life, Wuthering Waves learns how to Linux, the open source Steam Controller II is real, and gaming on ARM is better than you think.

Remembering Valves almost-launched Steam subscription service, NES classics reimagined in 3D, Mario Kart 64 running on Linux, Dying Light gets a makeover, and Fedora gives 32-bit a stay of execution.

Steam releases a tool for detecting fake frames, Action Game Maker is heading to Linux, Nexus Mods has a new owner, leaked SEGA sales numbers surface, and a SteamOS console for your living room.

Steam launches accessibility search! A Xbox handheld that cant play Xbox games, new Battlemage GPUs hit Mesa, voxel driving mayhem, and something about flavored hotdogs.

SteamOS usage drops by 15%, GE Proton enables support for FSR4, DualShock 4 to Xbox 360 mapping made easy, super sized Half-Life, and replacing Windows 10 with KDE.

TF2 invades Half-Life in Lambda Fortress! GeForce NOW officially hits the Steam Deck, AMD says 1080p gaming is king, and and CRSED: Cuisine Royale faces a Linux-fueled review bomb.

SteamOS gets a landing page! An Android-powered Wii U gamepad for Linux, drivers for ByoWave Proteus controllers, mechs with pickaxes, and GOG turns on 2FA.

Denuvo DRM strikes again! Locked out of DOOM: TGA for 24-hours, fan curves for LACT, CPU stress testing with OOTC, SteamOS compatibility ratings, and giving up on blinky RGB.

Valve drops a "nope bomb" on Classic Offensive, Google plays Pokmon Blue, Dinosaur Planet: Recompiled gets support for mods, spiders riding toast, and NVIDIA laptops at Computex.

Proton beta hints at ARM support, Cyberpunk 2077 added to Nexus MODs, running X86 games on RISC-V, and Wii Homebrew goes read only.

The Lenovo Legion Go (SteamOS edition) gets a price bump before release, Collabora brings Vulkan 1.4 to vintage NVIDIA GPUs, the D&D ruleset was released under Creative Commons, and Steam is working o

Spider-Man 2 loses Steam Deck verification, CanDev & the Internet Archive launch a DiscMaster Jam, a MOD for playing Minecraft in splitscreen, and why pause menus should (ya know) PAUSE THE GAME!

A Steam Deck prototype shows up on eBay, Microsoft remade Quake II with AI, emulating ray tracing on older AMD GPUs, open-source PhysX, and another blogger takes a crack at Linux gaming.

Will $500 Switch 2 prices help Steam Deck adoption? Wizards of the Coast DMCA'd a Baldur's Gate 3 Stardew mod, AV1 still kind of sucks, Ricochet set a new record, and everything you need to know about

HP (yes that one) is talking about getting into the Steam Deck business, ShadPS4 introduces support for HDR, the Silksong Steam repo updates, players are double-fisting Wizards, and Intel reportedly c

Valve's SteamOS lands on new Lenovo handhelds! Sony's solar-powered gaming controllers, the EU cracks down on digital currency, RTX Half-Life 2 on Linux, and a Steam button on the Xbox dashboard?

Steam's Year in Review reveals 330 million hours of Deck usage in 2024, hacking AMD FSR 4 support into DLSS games, Zink murders Nouveau GL, Box64 gains bonus DRM compatibility, and running Steam on Ro

Sonic Unleashed is hitting PC! We're talking a new player in the GPU game, Nintendo's GitHub crackdown on Switch emulators, and...easier mop grinding? Yeah, we'll explain.

EA releases the recovered source code for Command & Conquer and C&C Red Alert under GPL! LACT now supports dynamically reattaching GPUs, the Steam Deck turns 3, TF2 Classic is headed to Steam, Framewo

This week, we hop into the surprising update for Team Fortress 2. Amazon's failed attempt at challenging Steam. New game releases include the furry dogfighting action of "Whisker Squadron: Survivor" a

ARM support for Proton may be improving, a new Steam Deck plugin for frame generation enthusiasts, malware was found in a removed Steam game, DevilutionX now supports Windows XP, Marvel Rivals has fix

Steam's new Early Access abandonment warning system, gaming gets a landing page on Flathub, GoPro mounts for your Steam Deck, bathtubs on wheels, and AMD has a AM4 problem.

The Steam Deck goes headless! War Thunder enables EAC for Linux, Sony ditches PSN requirements, measuring Wayland latency, Nvidia drivers go VRR, and the Video Game History Foundation library opens fo

Play FF7 Rebirth while being ridiculed by your cat! Adventures in PlayStation 3 emulation on ARM, CS:GO Classic Offensive loses Steam, online co-op for Vampire Survivors, and a GDC survey finds 12% of

Valve dev says SteamOS isn't about killing Windows, GemRB now plays Icewind Dale 2 from start to end, war stories from GOG's Linux adventure, Sonic on the PS1, and the Intel Arc B570 is all over the p

AMD Ignites Z2 Steam Deck Rumors, Robocraft 2 Shuts Down, Nvidia's Frame Hallucination Advances, Profiling Games with Tracy, and Why Microsoft Should Fear SteamOS.

The first Half-Life 3 rumours of 2025! 24GB Battlemage GPUs from Intel, Marvel Rivals reverses 100-year ban for Linux players, and ATARI announces a handheld that's kinda neat.

2025 Marks the End for Desktop Gaming, Managing Game Achievements on Linux, Building the PC of Theseus, and What Happens When a Console User Attempts to Steam Deck.

Lenovo's 'special guest' at CES is Valve, Proton fixes EAC overlays, taming Logitech devices with Solaar, and ARM-powered gaming on the Radxa Orion O6.

RPCS3 comes to the Raspberry Pi! Lenovo Legion gets a Steam button, Funko pops Itch.io, and Battlemage sells out.

Be on the lookout for Powered by SteamOS! Open-source NVIDIA drivers now support Vulkan 1.4, Alpakka releases a 1.0 reference design, Steam Link comes to the Raspberry Pi 5, and Proton for your vintag

Steam Controller 2 models leak, Intel's BattleMage B580 priced at $250, Playtron Alpha 2 launches, a $1.6K gaming handheld debuts, and Half-Life 2 gets a 32-player mod.

Steam now allows refunds for season passes. Quake has been added to Open Morrowind. AMD drops RDNA. Silverstone has released stylish, hipster-inspired PC case. And Intel Battlemage GPUs in time for Xm

Valve announces the Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White! GOG launches their game preservation program, Proton Experimental gets DLSS 3 Frame Generation, and Half-Life 2 is FREE for a limited time.

Steam Game Recording exits beta! SEGA pulls classic games from virtual stores, NVIDIA remembers what the hell a Wayland is, Horis Horipad escapes Japan, and AMD releases another TemBlue wreckinator.