Linux Game Cast Weekly SD

M.2 mods could shorten the life of your Steam Deck, Crypt of the NecroDancer gets its first update in 5 years, Unity lays off 4% of their workforce, Xonotic 0.8.5 brings the pretty, and we celebrate 25 years of Simutrans. Then Inscryption faces, the Chairqasition.

The Steam Summer Sale begins! Intel Arc A380 gaming performance disappoints, FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 is opened-sourced, adding a Portal gun to Half-Life 2, and Minecraft bans players from private servers.

Neverwinter Nights turns 20! Heroic Games Launcher unifies your game library, BeamNG.drive adds experimental Linux support, running Minecraft in the cloud, and TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge faces... the CHARIQASITION.

Vulkan powered Shredder's Revenge comes to Linux next week! Pokemon invades the terminal, adding a second screen to your Steam Deck, and the best controller with two spinny wheels that you will see this week.

Steam Docks get delayed, Proton powered MechWarrior Online, Deck-sized BioShock Remastered, NVIDIA learns to Gamescope, and Mario comes to Garry's Mod.

Steam Deck and Index parts/repair guides are now available! Psychonauts 2 comes to Linux, an easy way to check Proton anti-cheat compatibility, and Open Morrowind enables post-processing.

Psychonauts 2 comes to Linux next week! Steam releases a patch for whiny Steam Decks, NVIDIA Image Scaling lands in Gamescope, and GoGodotJam 3 is underway!

Linux usage spikes in the latest Steam hardware survey, Microsoft 3D Movie Maker goes open-source, RDNA3 GPUs have AV1 encoding powers, Persona 4 Golden gets Steam Deck verified, and Epic puts Fortnite in a browser.

Steam Decks get a lockscreen! Heroic Games Launcher integrates Winetricks, Collabora brings sanity to Bluetooth on Linux, Ultra Deluxe Stanley Parable, and Ubuntu puts Steam in a Snap.

Support future episodes directly https://patreon.com/linuxgamecast. SteamDeck Docks get upgraded USB holes, Playdate consoles begin shipping, Overgrowth goes open-source, updating DualSense firmware from #Linux, and a big blue fox invades Half-Life 2.

Podcast & Notes

Show notes:

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Schedule: https://www.twitch.tv/linuxgamecast/schedule

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Hosts

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00:00 Intro

14:52 Steam Deck is top seller

18:21 SteamOS UI speedup

20:00 Upgraded Steam Deck Docks

23:49 Retrodeck

26:33 New games added to Proton 7.0-2

30:23 Portal writer wants to make 3

33:42 Starfox Half-Life 2 MOD

43:11 Playdate handheld begins shipping

46:49 Open-source Overgrowth

50:54 Updating DualSense firmware from Linux

54:54 SDL reverts to X

01:00:51 Cytopia city builder

01:03:47 Review: Chest Mate

01:15:27 Emails