Valve tries to improve Big Picture Mode on Linux for NVIDIA GPUs
In the latest Steam Beta Client for desktop, Valve has made an attempt to improve the experience for NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux.
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Immersion Corporation sues Valve over Steam Deck and Valve Index haptics tech
Immersion Corporation have a history of taking on companies and winning, with Valve being the latest in the firing line over Immersion's patents.
Steam gets game trials with Dead Space being first, plus Valve dumps Google Analytics
Two bits of Steam news for you here, as Valve continue iterating on Steam features for players and developers.
Dead by Daylight gets Steam Deck Verified
Well, I've been waiting to see what the public official word would be on Dead by Daylight and now it's official. Dead by Daylight is now Steam Deck Verified.
Steam Deck news round-up for early May 2023
Since there's so much happening and it can be hard to keep track, here's a little round-up of some happenings with the Steam Deck (and Steam as a whole) plus a little gaming news.
Valve gave Steam store search a very useful upgrade
Valve announced a fresh upgrade to the Steam store search, making it a lot more useful so here's a run over what's new and improved.
Steam will now scale better with KDE and GNOME
In the latest Beta release for Steam from May 5th, Valve finally did some more work on scaling the UI of the Steam Client.
Proton Experimental improves EA app, Battle.net and nvapi enabled for many games
A rather great sounding update to Proton Experimental landed on May 5th, so here's a run over what's new and improved.
Steam Deck hits over 9,000 games rated Verified and Playable
Another juicy milestone for Valve with the Steam Deck, as it now has over 9,000 games rated as either Verified or Playable.
Valve limits Steam store pages to 2 trailers before screenshots
I don't know about you, but I used to get a little annoyed by endless amounts of trailers on Steam pages that didn't really show much. Valve have been paying attention again to what players want to see.
Proton 8.0-2 out for Linux / Steam Deck fixing the EA app (yes, again)
Valve has upgraded the newer Proton 8 that only launched for Linux and Steam Deck recently, with a bunch of bug fixes.
Seems the big Chinese surge on Steam is over - Steam Survey for April 2023
Valve has now released the latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey for April 2023, and it shows that things have calmed down again.
Another Steam and Steam Deck Beta brings fixes and Steam Input improvements
After the huge update recently that overhauled the Steam Overlay, Valve has put up another Steam and Steam Deck Beta to fix up lingering issues and upgrade Steam Input.
Valve reveals the top Steam Deck games for April 2023
It's May already huh? Another month is over and so Valve has detailed what people have been playing the most on Steam Deck.
Huge Steam Beta upgrade with new overlay, screenshot manager & more
Wow. Valve sure love to just drop awesome stuff out of nowhere don't they? A brand new Beta update is now live for Steam with some massive improvements. There's also a fresh Steam Deck Beta too!
Street Fighter 6 on Steam Deck and Linux tested, Valve sets it to Proton Experimental
Street Fighter 6 is coming up for release in June and there's a demo now available to try out on Steam, which Valve has now set to use Proton Experimental.
Proton Experimental upgraded for April 26th brings fixes and new game support
Here we go, now that Proton 8 is out and Proton Experimental has been rebased on top of Proton 8, there's more fixes and improvements coming in for Steam Deck and Linux desktop gamers.
Steam Deck gets a Preview update with STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor improvements
STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor is releasing on April 28th, so Valve has released an updated graphics driver in the Preview update branch for Steam Deck.
Valve moves ELDEN RING back to Proton 7 as it has issues with newer Proton
Certain games on Steam that you play across either Linux desktop or Steam Deck get a specific version of Proton set by Valve, and at times they don't quite work right like ELDEN RING.
Valve improving Mesa graphics drivers on Linux for a "secret" game (update: Jedi Survivor)
Here's something interesting for you. Valve developers seem to be improving the Mesa graphics drivers right now towards a secret game. Update: It was for Jedi Survivor.
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- Dune: Awakening looks like it may be playable on Steam Deck - benchmark tested
- The Wipeout-like racer BallisticNG gets Steam Deck Verified
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