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My Own Thoughts On The Steam Controller, Flawed, But Fun

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2015

I honestly can’t remember the last time I was this excited about any hardware. It may only be a gamepad, but the Steam Controller is so very different it’s refreshing.

Steam Machines, Steam Link & Steam Controller Officially Released & SteamOS Sale

By Liam Dawe, 10 Nov 2015

Today will go down in the history books of Linux gaming that’s for sure, although not in as big a way as I was hoping for.

Left 4 Dead 2 Adds Native Steam Controller & Surround Sound Support On SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2015

Left 4 Dead 2 looks like one I will be trying out soon when my Steam Controller arrives next week. Also great to see surround sound in more games!

AMD Radeon Software Crimson Driver Announced, Completely Redesigned From The Ground Up

By LinuxGamesTV, 6 Nov 2015

AMD has announced their next generation driver platform, Crimson, as part of AMD’s new more agile and vertical software initiative that’s come from the reorganization into the Radeon Technologies Group.

Hardware

Valve's Steam Controller Now Has A Later Shipping Date

By Liam Dawe, 22 Oct 2015

All pre-orders should still be delivered on time, but if you order them from now you won't get your Steam Controller until December.

Ubuntu 15.10 Patched For Steam Controller, Backports To Older Ubuntu Versions This Week

By Liam Dawe, 21 Oct 2015

Jorge Castro from Ubuntu poked me recently to let us know that Ubuntu 15.10 has already been patched for the Steam Controller, and 14.04+ others will have a patch back-ported this week.

My First Hours With A Steam Controller

By immortel, 17 Oct 2015

A guest article about a users new Steam controller, complete with pictures. An exciting time for gamers everywhere right now.

Steam Controller On Ubuntu, A Tweak You Need To Do

By Liam Dawe, 16 Oct 2015

Since some people did get in an early order (not me, doh!), you will need to do a quick fix to get it to register properly.

The Latest Steam Hardware Survey Shows Very Little Difference

By Liam Dawe, 2 Oct 2015

As usual Steam has produced their monthly hardware survey, and also as usual there is hardly any change across the platforms.

Catalyst 15.9 Tested on R7 370 4G

By Samsai, 16 Sep 2015

AMD have released a new driver for their GPUs and because I happen to own one I decided to do a test run with it by running my standard set of benchmarks to see what improvements, if any, there are.

The Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 PRO Rev.2 Is Cheap & Fantastic AMD CPU Cooler

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2015

I am so shocked with the performance of the Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 PRO Rev.2 that I decided to give it a small write up.

Steam Controller Demo From Pax Prime With Valve Talking About It

By Liam Dawe, 15 Sep 2015

Pax Prime looks like it was pretty good for Valve and Steam machines, as Robin from Valve did a little chat about the Steam Controller, and behind him you can see a big Alienware Steam Machine section, love it.

Introducing the Latest Addition To GOL Cast Hardware: Radeon R7 370 [Updated]

By Samsai, 13 Aug 2015

Recently I've considered purchasing an AMD GPU for testing purposes and because of the recent benchmarking article I finally decided to abuse my wallet and get myself one. So, here it is along with some of my first impressions!

HTC Vive Plans Linux/SteamOS Support For Day 1

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2015

Good news VR fans, it seems the HTC Vive plans to have Linux/SteamOS support included for day 1 at release.

Get Your Hands On A Steam Controller Early, If You're A Developer

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jul 2015

Developers wanting to get their hands on the Steam Controller early may be in luck, as Valve are taking submissions.

SMACH Zero, A SteamOS Handheld Official Specifications Revealed

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jun 2015

SMACH Zero previously known as the SteamBoy has revealed the specifications it should be releasing with.

AMD's New R9 Graphics Cards Will Support Vulkan & OpenGL 4.5

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2015

AMD has launched their new AMD Radeon™ R9 Series, and with it comes a promise of OpenGL 4.5 and future Vulkan support.

SteamVR Headset From HTC To Release Windows Only First

By Eike, 22 Jun 2015

According to a renowned German PC games magazine,Gamestar, the SteamVR device HTC Vive is going to be released only for Windows in the beginning.

Alienware Show Off Their SteamOS Steam Machine, Looking Very Positive, More Games To Come

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jun 2015

After Alienware originally shipped out a Windows-based Steam Machine the Alienware Alpha, we now have them showing off and talking up their real SteamOS Steam Machine. We captured a great quote about new games to come too.