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Gardiner Bryant

Gardiner Bryant is the Editor-in-Chief of ViewSink, host of his YouTube channel, and President of Heavy Element. A media production house based in Maine. His enjoys music, video games, and Linux.

PSA: If you bought and received a dbrand Killswitch...

PSA: If you bought and received a dbrand Killswitch...

If you bought a Killswitch from dbrand and received yours... and you've moved since your case was delivered, check your email! The folks at dbrand have sent out emails to everyone who received their cases and they're asking for you to update your shipping information. > PSA: If you're up for

Steam broke a new record this weekend.

Steam broke a new record this weekend.

Valve's no stranger to breaking records. If it's the number of total concurrent online users at 30,032,005 back in October '22, or Team Fortress 2 having a record-breaking number of concurrent players back in June 2021 [https://gamerant.com/team-fortress-2-breaks-steam-concurrent-player-record/#:~:text=Over%20the%20weekend%2C%20it%20was,last%

Unreal Engine 5 vs. The Steam Deck – can the Deck hold up?

Unreal Engine 5 vs. The Steam Deck – can the Deck hold up?

Our friends over at Digital Foundry have put the Steam Deck through a litany of Unreal Engine 5 benchmarks in an attempt to determine if the hardware will be able to hold up against the march of software progress. For those not familiar, Unreal Engine 5 is the latest game

PlayStation Remote Play just got a massive improvement on the Steam Deck.

PlayStation Remote Play just got a massive improvement on the Steam Deck.

If you haven't heard of Chiaki, we've covered it on my YouTube channel before. Check out the video if you're interested. But for those of you who want a tl;dw, Remote Play is a feature that allows you to remotely play your PlayStation games on a PC, an Android

Steam Deck changes add new games and controllers into the mix!

Steam Deck changes add new games and controllers into the mix!

A new build of Proton Experimental [https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/experimental_7.0/proton#L1099] was released on January 6th with a host of new updates. First, DirectX 9, 10, 11 , and 12 games all require Mesa 22 or Nvidia 510.47 drivers or newer. This is due

Local peer-to-peer game downloads are coming to Steam and will make the Deck even more useful!

Local peer-to-peer game downloads are coming to Steam and will make the Deck even more useful!

Okay, this is an exciting one, guys. I'm gonna circle back to a story we've been covering since October when Pavel Djundik–the creator of the incredibly useful SteamDB site–did a little bit of digging into Steam's code. He found strings that seemed to indicate Valve is working on

You'll never be happy with the Steam Deck 2

You'll never be happy with the Steam Deck 2

I've had my Steam Deck for nearly a year at this point and there's a small–but incredibly vocal–minority of folks who already want new Steam Deck hardware. The question is why? Let's dig into this and see if their concerns are justified.