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Valve upgrades the Steam Workshop, plus various Steam Deck improvements in new Beta

By Liam Dawe, Dec 13, 2023

Steam Desktop and Steam Deck have a fresh Beta release out that overhauls some parts of the Steam Workshop. Plus there's some fixes for Linux and Steam Deck too.

Linux Mint 21.3 Beta out now with experimental Wayland support for Cinnamon

By Liam Dawe, Dec 11, 2023

Linux Mint 21.3 is due to release soon with a first Beta now available, coming with the Cinnamon 6.0 desktop with experimental Wayland support.

Steam Deck Beta and SteamOS Preview fix up some annoying issues

By Liam Dawe, Dec 8, 2023

Valve recently put up a fresh Steam Deck Client Beta, along with a new SteamOS Preview release and together they fix some important issues that appeared.

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.9 Preview 'Well Paced Edition' brings more fixes

By Liam Dawe, Dec 5, 2023

Even more fixes are landing in Preview for Steam Deck in the SteamOS 3.5.9 Preview: Well Paced Edition update. I'm enjoying Valve giving them fun code-names too.

Songs of Conquest working on improved Steam Deck / Gamepad support

By Liam Dawe, Dec 4, 2023

Songs of Conquest is an impressive Early Access turn-based strategy adventure game and it has a new Beta available you may want to test on Steam Deck or with a gamepad.

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.8 now in Preview

By Liam Dawe, Dec 2, 2023

Valve released a fresh SteamOS update into Preview for Steam Deck, with SteamOS 3.5.8 out now fixing up various problems since the big 3.5 update.

KDE Plasma 6 - Beta 1 released

By Liam Dawe, Dec 1, 2023

The KDE team continue sprinting towards to finish line of the Plasma 6 release next year, with a Beta release now available for the popular Linux desktop environment which is also used on Steam Deck.

SteamOS 3.5.3 Preview fixes LCD issues, plus Steam Deck / Desktop Beta adds HDR info

By Liam Dawe, Nov 15, 2023

Three pieces of Steam news for you today covering the Steam Deck and desktop Steam as there's been various updates and improvements.

Steam Deck, Steam Big Picture and SteamVR get lots of visual tweaks in new Beta

By Liam Dawe, Nov 10, 2023

Valve released a fresh Beta update across Steam Deck, Steam Big Picture and SteamVR that includes lots of subtle visual tweaks to the UI to make it look a bit fancier.

Valve refines new Steam Deck Unified Frame Limit slider to show Refresh Rate

By Liam Dawe, Nov 9, 2023

Available currently in the Steam Deck Preview that I recently covered, there's a new Unified Frame Rate and Refresh Rate slider but Valve has done a useful tweak in the latest update.

Steam Deck Preview update has a Unified Refresh Rate and Framerate Limit slider

By Liam Dawe, Nov 7, 2023

Valve has released a fresh Beta and Preview update for the Steam Deck, which tweaks some existing features like the refresh rate and frame limit sliders to merge them into one slider to rule them all.

Latest Steam Client Beta has some useful controller support upgrades

By Liam Dawe, Nov 2, 2023

Valve has rolled out a fresh Steam Client Beta for desktop which includes some really good sounding improvements for controller support, so here's what's new.

SteamVR 2.0 Beta continues improving on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Nov 1, 2023

Now that SteamVR 2.0 is officially out, Valve has continued to push out Beta releases with other improvements and the Linux situation with SteamVR seems better now too.

Warzone 2100 4.4.0 Beta 1 brings new high-quality terrain

By Liam Dawe, Nov 1, 2023

Ah, what a classic! Warzone 2100 is a quality real-time strategy game that was originally a full proprietary commercial release from 1999 that's nowadays free and open source and it only keeps getting better!

Valheim testing a Unity upgrade with lots of optimizations

By Liam Dawe, Oct 27, 2023

Iron Gate announced a new public test release Beta of Valheim, which brings with it a Unity game engine upgrade that includes multiple performance enhancements to improve the game. So time to get testing.

Valve fixes up more SteamVR 2.0 Beta issues on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Oct 25, 2023

Another Beta update has landed for SteamVR 2.0, and this time it seems at least the initial startup issues may now be solved for most VR gamers on Linux.

Steam Deck gets a fix for a startup bug, plus more Steam Input upgrades for all

By Liam Dawe, Oct 24, 2023

Valve released another update to the Steam Deck, the desktop Steam client and SteamVR. Here's a run over what's changed for you including a needed startup fix for Steam Deck.

Steam Deck Beta gets some essential bug fixes and new Gyro options

By Liam Dawe, Oct 21, 2023

Valve put up some nice bug fixes in the latest Preview and Beta updates for the Steam Deck, here's a run over what's new and improved for you.

Begin your industrial revolution in the latest Minecraft Snapshot

By Liam Dawe, Oct 20, 2023

Now that Minecraft Live is over the developers have begun pushing out preview builds ahead of the upcoming release of Minecraft 1.21. A fresh Snapshot was just released with new features like the Crafter block.