Games: Steam Deck, RimWorld, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 22, 2022

• Persona 5 Royal is a great Steam Deck experience

  With another major release from SEGA and Atlus now here with Persona 5 Royal, the good news is that it's Steam Deck Verified and it really does work nicely.

• RimWorld - Biotech and the free 1.4 update out now

  Ludeon Studios have just released a rather big expansion to the colony building sim RimWorld with Biotech, along with the free 1.4 update for all players.

• Valve doing quick hotfixes in Proton for big game releases on Steam Deck / Linux

  Here's an interesting one I came across recently. It seems Valve are doing small hotfix releases of Proton, to go along with some of the bigger releases to get them working.

• The Gaming Community Is Fed Up With Corporate Greed and Ripe to Be Mobilized

• Steam Deck Beta adds way to view components, Valve confirms fan changes

  Valve has released another Steam Deck Beta and it's a rather interesting one, with a few nice new features along with the ability to see what components your Steam Deck shipped with. You can also now skip the intro video.

• Direction-Finding With Help From The Steam Deck

  Direction-finding, or fox hunting, is a popular activity in ham radio circles where a group of people armed with radios attempt to locate a broadcasting source. Besides being a hobby for amateurs, it’s also a necessary tool in the belt of regulators who are attempting to track down violators of the air space. There are a lot of ways to figure out the precise location of a radio transmission, but this one manages to pull it off using both a boat and a Steam Deck, each armed with a software-defined radio.

• This Snappy 8-Bit Microcomputer Brings The Speed To Retrocomputing

  When the need for speed overcomes you, thoughts generally don’t turn to 8-bit computers. Sure, an 8-bit machine is fun for retro gameplay and reliving the glory days, and there certainly were some old machines that were notably faster than the others. But raw computing power isn’t really the point of retrocomputing.