Games: Gaming Predictions, Last of Us, Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 08, 2023

• Reviewing the Combined Top 5 Linux Gaming Predictions from 2022

  Every year we now have a traditions to gather predictions, to see if any of us in the Linux community have any idea where things may be going. We recently published the ones for the year 2023. Last year, we had numerous contributors and we compiled the Top 5 predictions based on the most common ones. In 2021, this approach worked great and most of the predictions were accurate. What about 2022? Did we do as well?

• The Last of Us Part I got a juicy patch with Steam Deck improvements

  It's certainly no secret that The Last of Us Part I had a really bad launch overall and the developer is now trying to improve things. This new patch goes over crash bugs, does a little optimization of texture streaming to reduce CPU usage, some textures not rendering correctly was fixed and a whole lot more. So we're slowly getting closer to the state it should have released in.

• Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is free to keep this weekend

  If you enjoy strategy games, you don't want to miss the free giveaway of Battlestar Galactica Deadlock. The developer is currently giving it away to keep on Steam, with anyone able to claim a copy until April 9th, 9AM UTC.

• EVERSPACE 2 out now, devs focus on Proton for Linux - Steam Deck optimizations planned

  ROCKFISH Games have now launched EVERSPACE 2 and it looks awesome! One of their original Kickstarter promises did not make it though, with Native Linux support being cancelled as they will support it with Proton instead.

• Report: Steam Deck to pass 3 million sales during 2023

  A new report from Omdia currently doing the rounds is that the Steam Deck from Valve is set to hit 3 million sales during 2023.