Games: Steam Winter Sale, Proton 7.0-6 Testing, X-Plane 12
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Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas from GamingOnLinux
Some of you might have noticed over December our little friendly Penguin logo gained a fancy hat to keep warm, it's that time of the year again.
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Steam Winter Sale 2022 is live now, plus vote for the Steam Awards
Valve has put up their huge Winter Sale 2022 with tens of thousands of games that are discounted, plus you can now vote for the winners of the Steam Awards. This is a great time to stock up on games ready for the holiday season, or to just fill up your Steam Library ready to play through 2023 because I'm sure you don't have many games you haven't played yet right?
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Big open ocean adventure Sail Forth is out now
Sail Forth looks like a wonderful ocean adventure on the more chilled side of things (in a way), and if it's anything like the earlier versions I tried a while back, it would be an easy recommendation. Has quite a mixture of things from peaceful exploration and building up a fleet to various combat encounters too.
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JSAUX now selling a transparent Steam Deck backplate
Chinese accessory brand JSAUX have officially put up their transparent backplate for the Steam Deck.
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Proton 7.0-6 now in testing for Steam Deck & Linux desktop
Here's one missed from a week ago, Valve are testing another update to the stable version of Proton with Proton 7.0-6 needing some more eyes on it for testing. I don't imagine it to be released soon, given it's about to be holiday time.
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Gorgeous 3D adventure platformer New Super Lucky's Tale is now Steam Deck Verified
New Super Lucky's Tale appears to be one that somewhat flew under the radar. Originally released in 2020, it looks quite wonderful and after an update it became Steam Deck Verified.
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X-Plane 12 flight sim is officially out now
X-Plane 12 from Laminar Research is a realistic and powerful flight simulator with real-world physics, accurate aircraft systems / behaviour and an immersive simulation of the world.