Games: HDR and Colour Management, Steam, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 25, 2023

• HDR and Colour Management patches for Steam Deck + AMD GPUs under review

  Developer Melissa Wen recently sent in patches to improve HDR and Colour Management on Linux for Steam Deck and potentially other AMD GPUs. The work is being done by Melissa Wen, Joshua Ashton and collaboration with Harry Wentland.

• Fanatical team up with JSAUX again and you can win a Steam Deck

  Feeling lucky? Fanatical and accessory brand JSAUX have teamed up for a bundle of games, and with it a chance to win a Steam Deck and a whole lot of extras.

• Pixel-art Sims styled game Tiny Life hits Early Access on May 3rd

  Ellpeck Games have announced their pixel-art game inspired by The Sims, Tiny Life will be releasing with Linux support on May 3rd. From what I've played of some of the earlier builds, it showed a huge amount of promise.

• Linux and Steam Deck compatibility tool Luxtorpeda gets upgraded in v63

  Luxtorpeda is a very interesting project. It's a compatibility layer (like Proton) but designed to help you run Native Linux game engines for various Steam games.

• Valve moves ELDEN RING back to Proton 7 as it has issues with newer Proton

  Certain games on Steam that you play across either Linux desktop or Steam Deck get a specific version of Proton set by Valve, and at times they don't quite work right like ELDEN RING.