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New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, PS5 Emulation, and "I've Been Gaming On Linux For Five Years"
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Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Onimusha and Moonlighter 2 - 2026-09-05 Edition
Between 2026-08-29 and 2026-09-05 we selected 10 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. The big game of the past week is Onimusha: Way of the Sword, the long-awaited return the Capcom franchise from the 90s (PS1 players should remember it very well). It’s received the Resident Evil Reboot treatment, and last year I played it at the TGS 2025 and I found it very well done, while the regular enemies were a bit generic. Moonlighter 2 is also out, and while the overall reception is positive, fans of the first opus are divided by the direction taken by this new episode. Full details below!
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Tom's Hardware ☛ PS5 emulator can now run the console version of GTA V at up to 60 FPS on PC, but quickly crashes as tweakers continue to optimize — PS5 emulation advancing at an astronomical pace leading up to GTA VI launch
A spark was lit under the PS5 emulation scene a couple of months ago and instead of fading over time, it seems to be burning brighter than ever. GTA V now runs between 40-60 FPS for a few minutes before crashing, along with several other games being rendered smoothly.
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SlashGear ☛ I've Been Gaming On Linux For Five Years - Is It Ready To Replace Windows?
I remember well when saying the words "gaming on Linux" would get you laughed out of the room. Then the original Steam Deck came out in early 2022 running SteamOS (a Linux distro) and using the Wine-based Proton compatibility layer to translate Windows games, and Linux gaming flipped from unthinkable to preferable almost overnight. Linux game translation has gotten so good that in some cases, it performs better than Windows, among other benefits. Now we can ask the following question in complete seriousness: Can Linux replace Windows on your gaming PC?