Intel bringing faster upscaler to Valve’s Proton – XMX accelerated XeSS could come to SteamOS in boost to future Intel-powered handheld gaming PCs

Intel has opened requests to add Intel XeSS support to Valve’s Proton, signalling a renewed interest in getting its mobile gaming chips up to speed on the Linux operating system. Some of the best handheld gaming PCs right now are powered by Intel processors, namely the Intel Arc G3 Extreme. That can be found in…

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New Steam Deck plugin means you can customise your Steam Achievement pop-ups to match Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, or anything your heart desires

I wasn’t a fan of how Steam’s achievement pop-ups looked on the Steam Deck, so I changed them. I made a Decky-Plugin that provides the gamer, to design their ideal achievement pop-up look with some added themes. from r/SteamDeck Here’s one for all you achievement addicts out there; you can now customise your Steam Deck achievement pop…

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Moonlighter studio won’t host a public playtest of its next game due to rampant AI-led cloning: ‘We know we’re not the only developers feeling this way’

The studio behind the Moonlighter series has announced it will no longer host a public playtest for its forthcoming roguelike due to fears it will be “reverse-engineered, cloned and published”. The move comes as a surge in rapidly vibe coded clones floods Steam, Roblox and mobile app stores in the aftermath of Claude Opus 5.5….

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Lucasfilm wants to do more Star Wars games like Zero Company and Galactic Racer: ‘We’ve tried to be more flexible about who we’re willing to take pitches from’

We’ve had two Star Wars games in 2026, both of them quite good and neither of them quite what you might expect from the Star Wars mould: Zero Company, an XCOM-style tactics game, and Galactic Racer, an arcade racing game but Star Wars. And the success of those games means we may see more like…

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Xbox biz guy deletes his X account less than 24 hours after saying game devs who don’t embrace AI ‘should not be in the business of being a business’

Xbox senior business strategy manager Brandon Stirrup is tired of pussyfooting around about AI: In a thread on X his week, he said that he wants the world to know that Xbox uses it, that he thinks everyone should be using it, and that he believes so strongly in the cause that he’s willing to…

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