Steam Deck⌗

Monday’s Deck client beta adds up and down arrow keys to the OSK, and pinned notifications for various items
Thursday’s Deck client beta fixes non-responsive non-Steam games when the OSK is brought up. Important: Valve is copy/pasting the patch notes from the desktop client, so not everything in the patch note list for the Deck may be true!
Gardiner Bryant says that the Deck needs “a title that takes full advantage of the…hardware”. I agree; highly recommend giving his article a read
The Division 2 gets a hotfix that should allow the game to be playable now

Hardware⌗

moving from NVIDIA to AMD? It’s been pure bliss
want to overclock your AMD GPU? Here’s how
Aya Neo thinks they can make a handheld with a dGPU. Meanwhile here I am laughing at the fake news
Gamers Nexus documents EVGA’s last video card
you can now enable Bluetooth on a Stadia controller
VR seems to be getting GameScope support

I wrote down some quick thoughts regarding the Smash-like Fraymakers – it’s both good and bad
I also wrote a review on Sonority – a puzzle game where you can only progress in the game by playing the right notes on a flute

Wine 8.0-rc5 fixes nine bugs, improves OpenGL perf with Dark Souls Remastered. rc-4 fixed 25 bugs and increases rendering speed on external monitors
GE-Proton 7-44 adds HDR patches, adds launcher workaround for Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. Several releases followed shortly thereafter. Important: please upgrade to 7-47 to fix DXVK “invalid state cache files”!
NVIDIA driver 528.85.05 gets a few fixes

looks like we won’t be getting Wayland support with AppImages. To make the situation worse, further responses to the pull request have caused the thread to be locked and “limited to collaborators”
GOL does an interview with the Heroic Games Launcher founder

Cover image credit: Ubisoft