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Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has lost its Steam Deck Verified rating

By Liam Dawe, 5 days ago

Valve's Steam Deck rating system is generally quite correct, but there are clearly some times when it isn't. Thankfully, Valve do go back over various games to re-test them and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has been hit with a downgraded rating.

Starsector, one of the best space RPGs that's not on Steam had a huge update

By Liam Dawe, 28 Mar 2025

Starsector (formerly "Starfarer") is still in development but it's been a seriously impressive game for years. Not yet on Steam or any other store, as you have to buy it direct, but don't let that stop you with a big update out now.

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Minecraft Spring to Life drop is out now with more mob variants and ambient features

By Liam Dawe, 27 Mar 2025

Mojang have released the latest update for Minecraft, the Spring to Life drop. This is part of their sped-up release schedule to bring more updates to the game.

Dig up planets for skeletons and fight huge guardians in the latest No Man's Sky update

By Liam Dawe, 26 Mar 2025

Hello Game have somehow done it again. No Man's Sky has another surprisingly large update available adding in more new content like a fossil beds to dig up skeletons and big fights against huge guardians.

Infinity Nikki devs are working on Steam Deck support for the Steam release

By Liam Dawe, 26 Mar 2025

While there's no current release date for the Steam release, Infold Games are still working towards it for Infinity Nikki and it seems it may be good news for Steam Deck players.

Minecraft is getting a graphics overhaul with the Vibrant Visuals update

By Liam Dawe, 24 Mar 2025

Minecraft Live has been and gone again and this time there was some pretty big news. Vibrant Visuals was announced as a future major upgrade, which will bring some fancier looking graphics to Minecraft.

Assassin's Creed Shadows out now - Steam Deck Verified but has NVIDIA problems on Desktop Linux

By Liam Dawe, 20 Mar 2025

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is out now and it's Steam Deck Verified, so I took a look to see if it deserves the rating. The good news is that it will also work on normal Desktop Linux with AMD GPUs but NVIDIA GPUs have problems.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe, 17 Mar 2025

Initially Ubisoft said it wouldn't be supported, then they said it would be and now Valve have said that Assassin's Creed Shadows is Steam Deck Verified.

Nightingale gets font improvements for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 17 Mar 2025

Nightingale from Inflexion Games continues improvements during Early Access, with the latest patch out now with the developer trying to get it Steam Deck Verified.

Palworld is getting crossplay in 'late March'

By Liam Dawe, 13 Mar 2025

Pocketpair have announced that sometime real soon you'll be able to team up with players across different platforms in the popular monster catcher Palworld.

Ubisoft announce Steam Deck support for Assassin's Creed Shadows at launch

By Liam Dawe, 13 Mar 2025

In a surprise turnaround after previously stating the Steam Deck would not be supported for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft have now said it actually will be.

Death Stranding 2 has a new trailer and PS5 release date - hopefully a PC release isn't far off

By Liam Dawe, 10 Mar 2025

I am so unbelievably excited to play Death Stranding 2, and the new 10 minute trailer gives us a healthy dose of what to expect from it.

Open source Minecraft-like game VoxeLibre 0.89 brings another big load of improvements

By Liam Dawe, 10 Mar 2025

VoxeLibre the free and open source Minecraft-like game available via Luanti (formerly Minetest), just had another big release made available. The new v0.89 brings lots of improvements to gameplay and performance.

Trailmakers 2.0: Pioneers is out now and it's like a whole new game

By Liam Dawe, 6 Mar 2025

Trailmakers has managed to pull in a lot of happy players since the original 2019 full release, and the developers at Flashbulb have been busy building up the massive free update with Trailmakers 2.0: Pioneers that's out now.

Valheim should now start faster and perform better when CPU bound with a fresh upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 4 Mar 2025

While the developers of Valheim continue working on the Deep North biome, they've released another smaller update with some fixes and improvements to make the game smoother.

No support for Assassin's Creed Shadows on Steam Deck at launch

By Liam Dawe, 3 Mar 2025

One from earlier in February I missed was a Q&A post from Ubisoft about Assassin's Creed Shadows, and it's bad news for players hoping to run it on Steam Deck.

Promise Mascot Agency releases April 10 and is "Steam Deck Ready" with a demo up

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2025

Promise Mascot Agency from Kaizen Game Works is confirmed for launch on April 10th, and the good news for Steam Deck / Linux players is that it should work great with the developer noting it's "Steam Deck Ready".

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

Surprisingly, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has been given the Steam Deck Verified checkmark by Valve, after the latest patch was released with more updates planned.

A year later, Palworld hits 32m players while continuing to fight off Nintendo

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

It's been a little bit over a year now since Palworld arrived in Early Access, with developer Pocketpair announcing how well it's done along with another patch out now.

Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.11 out now with an in-game settings menu and better server browser

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2025

Luanti (formerly Minetest) has a new release out, which finally adds an in-game settings menu so you don't have to quit your current game to adjust things.

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