Category: Valve

Valve has now published the Steam Hardware & Software Survey: April 2024, and overall the movements are pretty small but there is a small dip for Steam Deck.

Valve have revealed the most played Steam Deck games for April 2024, and to no surprise you've all be playing a whole lot of Fallout haven't you? Yes you have.

Three sets of Steam Beta updates this weekend across SteamVR, Desktop and Steam Deck so here's all the details for you in one place.

Valve has pushed out what they're calling Proton 9.0 (Release Candidate 2), with a whole bunch of improvements for gaming on Linux Desktop and Steam Deck.

Just recently we had the Fallout 4 "next gen" update, which came with some issues. Thankfully, Valve are on the case with Proton Hotfix.

All you Lefties out there can finally get properly represented, in Counter-Strike 2 that is, as there's now the ability to swap your weapons into the other hand.

After two recent Preview releases of SteamOS for Steam Deck, Valve has now put out the latest Stable update for everyone with SteamOS 3.5.19 code-named "Grey Park Seagull".

With more and more AAA publishers putting up special editions of games you can pay extra for, to play a few days before the main release, Valve has formally made "Advanced Access" a thing on Steam.

Valve announced a small tweak to their refund policy, which closes a small loophole left open for Early Access and Advanced Access.

Here's another wonderful selection of games to add to your Steam Deck, after looking over what has been recently Steam Deck Verified to give you hopefully the best experience.

A fresh Desktop Steam Client Beta has been released, and it sounds like a useful one for those of you who do Remote Play.

Valve released another small SteamOS Preview update for Steam Deck, along with an additional Steam Deck Client Beta update.

A fresh SteamOS Preview release is now available for testing on Steam Deck, and although small it's probably an important one.

Valve just released a big new update for Dota 2 with Crownfall, which not only includes a new comic to read but also what they call The Markets of Midgate. This is the first act of an ongoing story event.

Valve has now launched the 64bit update for Team Fortress 2, which should bring performance improvements for most users. Plus we get Vulkan now too.

Valve pushed out a new upgrade to Proton Experimental, their staging ground for public-testing of what will eventually make its way into a main Proton release for playing Windows games on Linux Desktop and Steam Deck. The April 12th update is quite an interesting one too.

Thanks to all of Valve's effort with Proton, Steam Deck and their funding of people working on various other bits of Linux code like GPU drivers - the Linux share on Steam as of March 2024 bounced back to a near multi-year high.

Another month down and Valve have released the list of what was popular on Steam Deck for March 2024.

Valve has released a new Proton Experimental update that pulls in some nice fixes for Linux Desktop and Steam Deck gamers, and this update should improve quite a few games!

Running through until April 1st at 10am PT / 5pm UTC, the Steam Deckbuilders Fest is live filled with games with cards of all sorts.