Weekly News Recap (Deck Accessories Galore, Nobara Project Rising, Dolphin Not Coming to Steam)

Steam Deck⌗
- three beta client updates adds many fixes for Desktop Mode
- dbrand announces the universal mechanical mount for Project Killswitch, which the ModCase already had
- GuliKit reveals an updated version of their electromagnetic joystick module that no longer requires soldering and uses 50% less power
- eXtremeRate and JSAUX to reveal a transparent shell for both the front and the back
Software Updates⌗
- Wine 8.10 fixes 13 bugs, “improves” mouse cursor clipping
- Slippi 3.1.0 adds configurable chat messages
- Proton Experimental 6.6.2023 adds compatibility to Lord of the Rings: Gollum, makes a fix for Ubisoft Connect
- GE-Proton 8-4 fixes four games and removes the EAC workaround for Fall Guys
- Debian 12 ships with kernel 6.1, GNOME 43, UEFI on ARM64 support, and tons of updated packages; adds new repo that makes it easier to install non-free firmware
Other⌗
- SMITE gets Linux EAC support (although from the comments, apparently the game doesn’t work on Deck at the moment)
- Sonic Superstars coming in the Fall
- I reviewed the System Shock remake. Spoiler: I had a bad time
- turns out Valve told the big N about Dolphin coming to Steam
- seems like Nobara Project is “the fastest growing Linux distro for gaming”
- NVIDIA SHIELD controller getting support with kernel 6.5
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