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Dont forget you can check ProtonDB and see how users have found it on the Steam Deck! The site is a great resource for checking in advance:
https://www.protondb.com/app/243470
There’s 30 separate reports there for you to check over!
I just play Steam Deck and write about gaming + Linux a lot
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How did I know you’d be mentioning RomM :P
While not technically cyberpunk, or even at all, it is a fantastic film done by Ridley Scott in 1989. The neons and night time of Japan will remind you of Blade Runner!
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4105-black-rain
Definitely worth watching the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Gv1C8dPGs
Just a little article from me today. I’ve been enjoying a few cyberpunkish things recently:
- Psycho-Pass
- Dark Rain
- Cyberpunk 2077
…which reminded me that there was a semi-recent effort at bringing the classic Blade Runner PC game from 1997 to a new era of gaming. It didn’t land very well (everyone hated the smoothed graphics nonsense they did for it), but on a subsequent update they did fix that.
Anyway, that recollection led to me installing it on my OLED Switch, which then made me appreciate the atmosphere and environments, the beautiful backgrounds and so on. The backgrounds in this game are truly top-notch.
SO, if you’d like a little rambling about how Westwood went against the grain when 3D gaming was really taking off, and instead focused on a point-and-click adventure, then follow the link as per usual:
https://gardinerbryant.com/when-other-games-chased-polygons/
You’re so welcome! I hope it’ll be sooner rather than later :)
Quite literally would not have existed had Epic not funded it. Lake shopped it around for the better part of a decade seeing if anyone would be interested in funding it, but no one besides Epic would.
So, again, this game would not exist if Epic wasn’t involved.
I just use a VPN server from my own country, which is annoying.
Then switch back to elsewhere when I’m not here.
Trust you to be sharing the RomM link!
Oh there was a discussion between the two teams (RetroDECK & RomM) a few days back on Discord, I forget whose Discord though, but when I saw that I thought of you! I’ll see if I can find the link/where I saw it for you.
https://discord.com/channels/951662718102962256/1116736076606881914/1506640143753150504
Let me know how it works out for you, and if it works as what you’ve been looking for! I’ll be super curious to hear your thoughts
One day you might have time!!!
For today’s interview I got to chat to the developer of 1retro. His program and service is made to back your retro emulated games’ saves up, automatically, so you know you’re safe and secure.
Quick dot points straight from the website of 1retro:
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Saves upload automatically in the background. Smart syncing means only changed files transfer – fast, efficient, seamless.
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macOS, Windows, Linux. Our lightweight desktop app runs natively on all three without slowing you down.
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Your saves are backed up and stored safely in the cloud. Your data is yours. Always.
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Every save is versioned. Overwrite something by accident? Roll back to any previous version instantly.
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Power users can automate their workflows, write scripts, and integrate custom emulators with our command-line tools.
I spoke with developer Hans to learn more about building 1Retro, retro gaming fragmentation, accessibility, and why he believes some of the hobby’s biggest improvements still happen behind the scenes.
If you’re curious about saves in retro gaming, development, or the service he’s looking to offer, have a read with my link. 1retro is new to the scene, but I’m curious about what you think:
https://gardinerbryant.com/fixing-retro-gamings-save-problem/
This wasn’t my article, but Gardiner’s! Anyway, here’s a nice guide if you’ve never done so but would like to emulate PSP on SteamOS :)
This wasn’t my article, but Gardiner’s! Anyway, here’s a nice guide if you’ve never done so but would like to emulate PSP on SteamOS :)
Thank you! I’m glad there is this strong core group of projects and devs who both support and love the Steam Deck, so long after release!
If you’re curious to hear more from the teams, I’ve interviewed all except Unifideck (some many times!) over the last few years. You can find those by filtering with my author link on the site, or with this tag:
Approaching the middle of 2026, I thought it might be interesting to check in with a handful of developers building software for the Steam Deck scene to see how things have gone, are going and might be for the future!
Most of these are good friends of mine, but there is one new face here as well. I asked them a few questions each about what the state of Steam Deck software looks like today.
- RetroDECK
- Decky Loader
- Junk Store
- Lutris
- Heroic Games Launcher
- Unifideck
^ all the projects I checked in with! So if you’re curious, this one isn’t exactly hard-hitting journalist, it is a nice light check-in with friends as to how the Steam Deck world is for them now!
Hope you enjoy it!
Approaching the middle of 2026, I thought it might be interesting to check in with a handful of developers building software for the Steam Deck scene to see how things have gone, are going and might be for the future!
Most of these are good friends of mine, but there is one new face here as well. I asked them a few questions each about what the state of Steam Deck software looks like today.
- RetroDECK
- Decky Loader
- Junk Store
- Lutris
- Heroic Games Launcher
- Unifideck
^ all the projects I checked in with! So if you’re curious, this one isn’t exactly hard-hitting journalist, it is a nice light check-in with friends as to how the Steam Deck world is for them now!
Hope you enjoy it!
This looks to be the last handheld review I’ll be doing for the near future at least. I did have the TRMUI Brick Pro on the way…but they’ve delayed that release with no confirmed date yet (I suspect the RAM woes play a big-big part in that), so for now it is what I suppose is the ultimate nostalgia machine - AKA the Retroid Pocket Classic.
Remember the Nintendo Game Boy Color Pokemon special edition? Well, you’ll no doubt see where Retroid’s inspo came from. Not that they hide it with the ‘PKMN Yellow’ name for it.
^ the screens have improved over time
- Super powerful with 6GB/128GB on the model they sent me
- Chunky plastic that makes you feel like you’re in a Toys-r-us dream
- Perfect-perfect-perfect for systems like GB/GBC/GBA and things like Game Gear (I played Game Gear games for the very first time on this one!)
- The display kicks all kinds of AMOLED butt, you really can’t beat it
- Nostalgia is a clear selling factor for this one
If you’re interested in my Retroid review, as ever you can read through it here. Or you can ask me whatever you might be interested in here if you don’t wanna read through. Clicks don’t bother me, we don’t run ads on the site so there’s no scramble to get people over.
Although this is posted last thing at night on my side of the world, so it might be morning when I wake up and respond to you if you do have any questions!
Link is here:
https://gardinerbryant.com/hands-on-with-the-retroid-pocket/
Time to set up Jellyfin instead!
https://gardinerbryant.com/plexs-lifetime-pass-is-basically-dead-heres-how-to-switch-to-jellyfin/
I don’t play that game, but someone on Discord asked me to try the Android version for them. The only issue I found was the UI was a bit squished in the intro set-up screen:
After that it is just fine! All the pinch to zoom gestures and so on work well.
Though to be fair I’m not sure what is normal and right, as I don’t play it!
Totally funded by Epic. Lake tried for over a decade to get anyone to want to publish it, it no one was interested. Not only did Epic put the money up, they had a clause of profits over a certain amount going only to Remedy.
It is a fact. We’d never have Alan Wake 2 without Epic picking up the bill!