Games: Lots of News and New Titles

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 29, 2023

• More EA games receive Valve’s Steam Deck Playability Rating - Including Mass Effect Legendary Edition | OC3D News

  Valve has marked a large list of EA games as "Playable" on their Steam Deck handheld following a new update tot he Proton compatibility layer. For those who are unaware, Proton is what allows Windows games to run on Linux, making Valve's Windows-less Steam Deck gaming handheld possible.

  EA's in the process of retiring their Origin PC client, replacing it with their new EA App. This move has caused a lot of problems for PC gamers on Linux and Steam Deck, as EA's new EA App caused problems for the Proton compatibility layer. Now that updates to Proton have addressed this issue, Valve can now retest EA's games and judge their playability on their Steam Deck system.

  Earlier this week we reported that Battlefield 1, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Titanfall 2, and The Sims 4 have become playable on Steam Deck. Now, we can confirm that the following EA games are now playable on Steam Deck, thanks to Gaming on Linux.

• FPS Game Engine Built In Ancient Macintosh HyperCard Software

  Wolfenstein 3D�and�Doom are great examples of early FPS games. Back in that era, as Amiga was slowly losing its gaming supremacy to the PC, Apple wasn’t even on the playing field. However, [Chris Tully] has used the 90s HyperCard platform to create an FPS of his own, and it’s charming in what it achieves.

• Valve fixed up Dead Space on Steam Deck

  For those of you waiting for news on Dead Space becoming more playable on Steam Deck — Valve have already delivered.

• Humble's Survival Instinct Bundle looks like a good deal

  Want some more survival games? Humble's Survival Instinct Bundle has a few good picks in it and far cheaper than buying individually.

• Steam Deck and Steam Beta fix on-screen keyboard, Gyro improvements, Linux input fix

  More goodies coming to the Steam Deck and Steam Desktop Beta, as Valve sure do like to work quickly to solve bugs and add features.

• Watch Dogs: Legion from Ubisoft arrives on Steam, playable on Steam Deck

  Here's yet another Steam release from Ubisoft, as they continue dumping their older titles on Steam. Watch Dogs: Legion is here and playable on Steam Deck.

• The new Dead Space is sadly a great big mess on Steam Deck

  Dead Space got a remake that was released today and I was incredibly excited by it but sadly it's just a mess.

• Steam Deck now in stock across Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan

  Komodo PR sent word that there's no longer a reservation queue to purchase a Steam Deck across Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan.

• The overlooked gorgeous pixel-art Lila's Sky Ark is now on GOG

  Here's a fresh chance for me to tell you to take a look at the overlooked gem that is Lila's Sky Ark, as it's now on GOG.

• Trackmania heads to Steam and the devs say it's playable on Steam Deck

  Trackmania, the 2020 remake, is heading to Steam and the developers have started answering questions like — will it run on Steam Deck?

• Rhythm adventure Hi-Fi RUSH from Tango Gameworks gets a surprise release

  Tango Gameworks, developer of The Evil Within and Ghostwire: Tokyo, along with publisher Bethesda just stealth released their latest game called Hi-Fi RUSH.

• 4A Games release a full Metro Exodus SDK for modders

  4A Games have done something quite awesome. They've released a SDK for people to make full game modifications of Metro Exodus.

• Developer of point and click adventure Splittown looking at Linux support

  Love your adventure games? Here's one to keep an eye on. The developer of Splittown has mentioned they're looking into Native Linux support.

• Might and Magic 6, 7 and 8 get an open source reimplementation with OpenEnroth

  Want to play Might and Magic 6, 7 and 8 on modern systems with an updated game engine? Well, OpenEnroth looks mighty promising.

• NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 525.47.06 out now

  NVIDIA has released another fresh update to their Vulkan Beta Driver, with version 525.47.06 rolling out now.