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Steam Spring Sale 2025 is live now - here's some great budget games for Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, 13 Mar 2025

Valve have launched the first of their planned four major seasonal sales for 2025, with the Steam Spring Sale launched featuring plenty of big discounts and demos.

I hope Valve are watching closely with Microsoft working towards an Xbox Handheld

By Liam Dawe, 12 Mar 2025

With Microsoft pushing to improve Windows on handhelds, and reportedly working with a specific partner on an Xbox-branded gaming handheld, Valve should be watching closely with their Linux plans for Steam Deck and SteamOS.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for No Man's Sky, Deviator and re-enables NVAPI for multiple games

By Liam Dawe, 7 Mar 2025

On top of releasing a fresh update to Proton Hotfix, there's also a new Proton Experimental update for Linux / Steam Deck available now.

Proton Hotfix updated to fix The Finals and Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced (offline) on Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, 7 Mar 2025

Valve have released a new Proton Hotfix update which solves issues with both The Finals and Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced (offline play) on Linux / Steam Deck.

Steam Beta for March 4 brings Game Notes via the web and 8BitDo Micro support

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2025

A new Steam Client Beta for Desktop and Steam Deck was released on March 4th, bringing with it the ability to view your game notes via the web.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.23 Beta released with fixes for rendering issues with Avowed

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2025

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.23 Beta "Beak Visible" is available now for people to test in the Beta and Preview channels.

Steam hits another all-time user record with over 40 million online

By Liam Dawe, 2 Mar 2025

Over the weekend Steam managed to break yet another concurrent online user record, smashing the previous that was set back in December 2024.

Steam sees a big rise in Simplified Chinese for February 2025 bringing Linux down below 2%

By Liam Dawe, 2 Mar 2025

Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey numbers for February 2025, and there's a pretty massive increase in Simplified Chinese as language which has pushed about all the numbers everywhere else.

Valve updates the Steam Daily Deals program and gives some stats

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2025

Valve have done a little adjustment to the display of Steam Daily Deals to show more games. They also now give developers some more stats, and gave us all a bit of an overview.

Valve's in-development Deadlock gets a huge map overhaul

By Liam Dawe, 26 Feb 2025

Valve's upcoming MOBA shooter Deadlock has received one of the biggest updates to date, which includes a big overhaul to the map that makes it a bit less complicated.

Happy three years to the Steam Deck - the Linux gaming machine that changed everything

By Liam Dawe, 25 Feb 2025

It's been three years today since Valve released the Steam Deck. Not only has Valve shown how incredible Linux actually can be as a gaming platform, but they really kicked the industry into gear on PC gaming handhelds.

Steam Next Fest - February 2025 is live with tons of demos

By Liam Dawe, 24 Feb 2025

Valve has launched Steam Next Fest, another good opportunity for you to jump in and test some upcoming games that runs through until March 3rd.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.22 brings a fix for pre-compiled shader downloads

By Liam Dawe, 24 Feb 2025

Valve just released a tiny SteamOS 3.6.22 "Volcanic Activity" Beta for Steam Deck, which includes a fix for a rather annoying issue.

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.

There's been a flood in the Wandering Waters update for Dota 2

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

While Valve continue building up their next MOBA with Deadlock, their current Dota 2 is still as popular as ever and the Wandering Waters update for Dota 2 sounds pretty awesome.

Proton Experimental adds fixes for Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, The Finals and more

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2025

Valve released a fresh update for Proton Experimental today pulling in some more fixes for various Windows games to run on Linux / Steam Deck.

Valve use a little code from Godot for Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Team Fortress 2

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2025

This is the beauty of open source in action - everyone can benefit. Valve are no stranger to open source, and as it turns out they're using a little bit of code from Godot Engine now too.

Team Fortress 2 major update released and source available for modders via the Source SDK

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2025

It wasn't just Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source that received big updates today, as Valve also published a new update for Team Fortress 2 along with updating the Source SDK to include TF2!