Games: Steam Deck, Proton Experimental, The Legend of Zelda
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Big new Stable Update for Steam Deck and Desktop Steam
Valve has today released a major update for the Steam client on Steam Deck and for Desktop users too. There's absolutely masses new including small new features, along with plenty of bug fixes to make the experience smoother overall, as usual a whole bunch of it is shared between Desktop and Steam Deck.
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These were the most popular Steam Deck games for January 2023
Valve has done their monthly thing, giving out a list of what was the most played games on Steam Deck through January 2023. Yes it's already February, no I can't believe it either.
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Ubisoft just broke their games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck
Update 21:17: Looks like Proton developers have updated the "bleeding-edge" Beta for Proton Experimental, that works around the issue. Note: using it can cause other issues, the Beta doesn't have a lot of testing, you've been warned.
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Proton Hotfix improves Dead Space, Proton Experimental tweak for Tiny Tina's Wonderland
In addition to the below, Valve did another Proton Experimental update after some recent Ubisoft Connect breakage I highlighted that includes:
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past gets a reverse-engineered clone
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, the 1991 classic from Nintendo has been reverse-engineered to bring it natively to more platforms. Nintendo are no doubt warming up their lawyers. Available on GitHub under the MIT license, it notes the game is fully playable from start to finish and it does need the original ROM for the resources, so it doesn't include the copyrighted assets.