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Steam Deck OLED gets a price increase across Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
1+ hour, 56+ min ago (178+ words) KOMODO announced over the weekend that the Steam Deck OLED is getting a price increase across Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. KOMODO announced over the weekend that the Steam Deck OLED is getting a price increase across Japan, South Korea,…...
Proton Experimental gets improvements for Vermintide 2 and more controller support for launchers
17+ hour, 42+ min ago (92+ words) Valve released an update for Proton Experimental for February 27th, their testing ground for getting more Windows games running on Linux / SteamOS systems. From the changelog noted to now be properly playable: Pictured - Warhammer: Vermintide 2 The rest of the changes in…...
The OrangePi Neo gaming handheld with Manjaro Linux is now "on ice" due to component prices
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (238+ words) The latest update for the OrangePi Neo handheld with Manjaro Linux is not a positive one, with the whole thing now unfortunately "on ice". In other words, the planned release has been paused. Why? You can thank the AI surge…...
Happy four years to the Steam Deck - still the top PC gaming handheld
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (257+ words) Four years ago today, the original Steam Deck LCD released, with it going on to change how everyone sees handheld gaming PCs and Linux for gaming. Valve have continued to show that Linux can be a great gaming platform thanks…...
Death Stranding 2 PC specs have been revealed, along with a "Portable" preset for handhelds
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (219+ words) We now have the official PC specifications released for Death Stranding 2 and they actually seem pretty reasonable, so plenty of people should be fine. I was a bit worried, given how many games release in such a poor state. You'll…...
NVIDIA hiring Linux driver engineers to help with Vulkan, Proton and more
1+ week, 59+ min ago (48+ words) NVIDIA have multiple job listings available for Linux developers - this could be your chance to improve Linux gaming if you have the skills. You need some top skill for it including: See the job if you're interested. Again plenty of…...
Intel hiring GPU driver engineers for Linux
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (156+ words) It's not just NVIDIA hiring to improve their Linux graphics drivers, as Intel are also looking for multiple new driver engineers. Pointed out recently is that Intel actually have multiple "GPU Software Development Engineer" positions open. All three of these…...
Steam Deck now out of stock in Europe in addition to USA, Canada and Asia
1+ week, 3+ day ago (152+ words) Unfortunately the stock availability of the Steam Deck has only worsened recently, with Europe now appearing to be completely out of stock. That's on top of it still being out of stock in the USA, Canada and Asia as I…...
Steam Deck now out of stock in the EU in addition to USA, Canada and Japan
1+ week, 3+ day ago (245+ words) Unfortunately the stock availability of the Steam Deck has only worsened recently, with the EU now appearing to be completely out of stock. That's on top of it still being out of stock in the USA and Canada as I…...
Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too
1+ week, 4+ day ago (240+ words) Component shortages are increasing thanks to the AI boom, and if you were thinking you could fall back on traditional HDDs - you would be wrong. I know it's basically bad news after bad news right now, but that is the…...