Valve released its monthly Steam Hardware Survey for July, and the biggest surprise came from the Linux gaming crowd. Apart from showing the usual Nvidia and Intel dominance of GPUs and CPU usage among Steam users, there weren't many new takeaways from the latest report, except that Linux games surged to 1% in July, a first in years.

The fact that it coincided with the release of the Linux-powered Steam Deck certainly cannot be ignored. It looks like gamers will be starting to explore whether the Steam libraries can actually be played on Valve's new handheld gaming PC when it launches in December.

Proton is still impressive as it was Proton's first outing of Windows games back in 2018, a compatibility layer that allows it to run on Linux, a compatibility layer that allows it to run on a native Linux connection. points or struggled to deliver a gaming experience as compelling as playing games on a Windows operating system. We did not find evidence of a 2% increase in ourselves, which could mean that it decreased very quickly.

Steam Deck runs on the Linux-based operating system that became available within a few months as some of them are preparing for the portable game console by controlling this operating system, which may explain the steady increase in the Linux gaming market share.

It is worth noting that SteamOS 3.0, which Deck will be running on, is based on the Arch Linux distribution and has not seen any movement in terms of market share growth. The distribution that seems responsible is Ubuntu 21.04, which saw a 0.06% gain. However, it still makes sense in this context, given that Ubuntu is generally considered the most accessible version of Linux for the folk jumper from Windows.

As Steam Decks begins to fall into the hands of gamers running Steam OS, we expect Linux market share to increase further, especially if the pre-order rush is any indication.

A new report by Kotaku states that complaints of sexual harassment are not addressed, pay inequalities between local and expatriate workers, and a "French ceiling" (Ubisoft's headquarters in Paris), making it difficult for workers in other countries to advance.

"We have a joke: we have a French multiplier and we have a tan multiplier," one employee told the site.

Gamasutra's investigation into Ricour and Ubisoft Singapore came amid allegations of misconduct and misconduct, involving the involvement of other executives across the company, among others chief creative director Serge Hascoët, general manager of Ubisoft Canada Yannis Mallat, and head of global human resources. It resulted in the resignations of Cécile Cornet. However, Ricour did not suffer similar results: Three sources told Kotaku that Ricour took leave immediately after the Gamasutra report was published, but refused to conduct any investigations unless formal allegations were made through Ubisoft's HR department or an internal anonymous reporting tool. According to the report, Ricour returned to work shortly after and apologized to anyone who felt offended by his actions during the next town hall.

A third-party HR firm brought in to investigate the matter in October 2020 determined that there was insufficient information to warrant a lawsuit against Ricour, but in November Ubisoft's Studio Chief Operating Officer Virginie Haas, who was appointed in August 2020. she announced within the company that Ricour was sacked as studio head she. He wasn't fired, though: He was instead transferred to Ubisoft's Paris headquarters, she. His LinkedIn account now lists him as Ubisoft's Director of Production Intelligence.

It's been almost a year since Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot apologized to "everyone hurt" for workplace misconduct, despite his refusal to take any responsibility. According to many accounts, little has changed since then: Last week, the union Solidaires Informatique claimed that executives, including Guillemot himself, had enabled and fostered a culture of "corporate sexual harassment" at the company that perpetuated it in France. He filed a new complaint against Ubisoft. day.

Kotaku's investigation of workplace culture at Ubisoft Singapore followed a separate report on the problematic development of Skull and Bones. Staff at the studio said it's gone through several direction changes and wholesale reboots over the years; A former employee pointed to the "toxic culture permeating the Singapore studio" that is largely responsible for production problems. Despite long-standing issues, Ubisoft is determined to make it happen: Skull and Bones is currently expected to be released in 2022-23.