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The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered revealed, it's out now and Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Bethesda Softworks today officially revealed and launched The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, after days of leaks. And from what they've revealed, I'm very excited to give it a go. It's even Steam Deck Verified right from the get-go.

V Rising 1.1 - Invaders of Oakveil will bring lots of new content and official Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
V Rising 1.1 - Invaders of Oakveil is set to release on April 28th and it's going to bring much improved and official support for the Steam Deck.
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Egosoft reveal the big free Diplomacy update for X4: Foundations due out in 2025

By Liam Dawe,
Egosoft have revealed that their expansive space sim X4: Foundations is getting another major upgrade named Diplomacy, scheduled to arrive some time this year.

DUCKSIDE from tinyBuild may get BattlEye Anti-Cheat enabled for Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe,
After recently switching over from Easy Anti-Cheat to BattlEye for DUCKSIDE, tinyBuild have confirmed they're now looking to enable it for players on Steam Deck / Linux with Proton.

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

By Liam Dawe,
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,
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.

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

By Liam Dawe,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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.
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