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SteamOS 2.88 beta released, newer AMD driver and a crash fix for the updater

By Liam Dawe, 18 Aug 2016

SteamOS beta 2.88 is now out, nothing major as usual but it does feature a newer AMD driver and a fix for an updater crash.

Latest Steam Hardware Survey shows Linux has grown, by a tiny amount (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 2 Aug 2016

The latest Steam Hardware Survey is out and for the first time in a while the Linux figure seems to have grown.

Alienware do a pretty nice job of advertising their Steam Machine & SteamOS in this new video

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2016

A new promotional video from Alienware showing off their Steam Machine has surfaced recently and it's a pretty nice video.

SteamOS update 2.83 beta released, new Nvidia and AMD drivers hit

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jun 2016

Today SteamOS has a new beta, which brings a much newer Nvidia driver to the table and a fresher build of the new AMD PRO driver.

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Street Fighter V has passed the initial Linux & SteamOS release window

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2016

I sincerely hope none of you pre-ordered Street Fighter V on the promise of the Linux version, as it has shown yet again how silly it is. Street Fighter V is now officially late.

Dell set to introduce beefed up Steam Machines

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jun 2016

According to PCWorld who spoke with Chris Sutphen, the senior marketing manager at Alienware, Dell are pushing out two new Steam Machine models.

Things I feel Valve need to address to help SteamOS really be something fantastic

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jun 2016

Valve have a lot of work to do to bring SteamOS up to full speed and actually show that they regard it as an important platform. And it has to be not just important to them, but be truly useful to us.

Steam Machines are dead in the water according to Ars, not quite

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2016

Ars Technica has written up an article about Valve's Steam Machines and how they seem to have sold less than 500,000 units in around seven months.

Editorial: Valve have not abandoned SteamOS or Linux, things are looking pretty good

By Liam Dawe, 29 May 2016

Something I keep seeing repeated in our comments, forum and across other sites is people believing Valve have somehow failed already and are abandoning SteamOS. That's far from the truth of the matter.

SteamOS 2.80 beta released, brings the AMD GPU PRO driver for Vulkan and VDPAU support

By Liam Dawe, 26 May 2016

Probably one of the more interesting releases of SteamOS recently. SteamOS 2.80 is now in beta which brings with it some fun changes for AMD GPU users.

Feral Interactive are teasing yet another Linux & Mac port on their radar

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2016

Oh boy, not long after the release of Tomb Raider and Feral Interactive have started teasing a new port again.

Corpse Party, a popular 2D horror series is coming to Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2016

I hadn't heard of Corpse Party myself until a few days ago, but it seems this popular series is getting a Linux entry. Corpse Party is currently being ported to Linux!

Lionsgate and Steam team up to offer over 100 films on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 25 Apr 2016

Pretty awesome news, Lionsgate and Steam are teaming up to offer over 100 of their titles like Hunger Games, Twilight and more.

The Culling, a good looking Unreal Engine 4 battle royale game is heading to Linux soon

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2016

I must admit I like the look of The Culling! While I like the idea of survival games, they often don't click for me, but a battle royale game I could definitely get into.