Steam Deck OLED wins Best Gaming Hardware in the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
Another year, another set of award shows. The Golden Joystick Awards 2024 have their results out now, and the Steam Deck OLED won Best Gaming Hardware.
Category: Valve
Steam getting proper Season Pass support with clearer guidelines and refunds for cancellations
Valve have another Steam store update incoming, with seemingly proper built-in support for a Season Pass along with new guidance for developers.
Valve fixes up Steam Input bug with ROG Ally X
Valve confirmed back in August they still had plans to release SteamOS 3 outside of the Steam Deck for other handhelds, and it's nice to see they're still working away on the Steam Client for various hardware.
Steam Deck update has fixes for performance issues in long sessions and Remote Play Together
Valve pushed out a new stable Steam Deck Client update which includes some pretty essential sounding bug fixes.
Steam Controller 2 is apparently a thing and being 'tooled for a mass production' plus a new VR controller
Take this with a pinch of salt as you always do with leaks, but it appears Valve may be prepping a Steam Controller 2, along with a new controller for their Deckard VR kit as well.
Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White and Steam Deck Australia have launched
Two big things have arrived. The first is that you can attempt to grab the sleek looking Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White right now, and the Steam Deck is now available in Australia.
Half-Life: Blue Shift remake mod Black Mesa: Blue Shift - Chapter 5: Focal Point released
Black Mesa: Blue Shift is a remake of the classic Half-Life: Blue Shift, made as a mod for the Half-Life remake Black Mesa. A big new update just landed for Black Mesa: Blue Shift that includes the new Chapter 5 of the story.
Half-Life 2 free to keep until November 18th, Episodes One & Two now included with a huge update
To celebrate that Half-Life 2 has turned 20, Valve has made it free to claim and keep for a limited time. Not only that, but Episodes One and Two are now included with a huge upgrade.
Get a fresh look at Half-Life 2 RTX in a new video plus the Steam page is now live
Half-Life 2 RTX looks like it's coming along quite nicely, if you're a fan of everything being a bit shinier.
Team Fortress 2 gets an update to improve matchmaking
Yup, Valve are still updating and improving Team Fortress 2, and another fresh upgrade is out now improving the matchmaking experience.
Train finally returns to Counter-Strike 2 in the latest big update
Train! It's back! A fan favourite map returns that was annoyingly missing from the release of Counter-Strike 2. But it's now back and looking better than ever in the latest update to Valve's FPS.
Stable Steam Client update has fixes for Linux, VR, Steam Deck and more
After another short Beta round, Valve released a fresh Steam Client update to the stable channel for Desktop and Steam Deck.
Proton Experimental adds DLSS 3 Frame Generation support, plus fixes for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Rivals of Aether II and more
Valve once again updated Proton Experimental giving you a good few fixes for various games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux when running the Windows versions.
Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable
Steam Game Recording was recently released, which came as part of a big Stable Steam Client update that noted it had fixes for "miscellaneous common crashes" on Linux. Now we know a little more on what's happening behind the scenes.
New Steam Beta has more Game Recording improvements and a Linux fix
Valve released another update to the Steam Beta Client for Steam Deck and Desktop Steam, which includes more improvements and tweaks to Game Recording.
Valve announced the Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White
I am terribly jealous of anyone who is able to grab one of these. Valve just announced the Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White is coming soon.
Steam Beta gets fixes for WiFi on Steam Deck, plus AMD GPU startup crash on Desktop
Following on from the big release of Steam Game Recording in the stable Steam Client, there's a new smaller Beta available for Steam Deck and Desktop.
Steam gets new tools for game devs to offer players version switching in-game
Valve announced something that I'm sure a lot of game developers and players will appreciate: new APIs to allow developers to have version switching directly in their games!
Valve's Deadlock adds proper Steam Input support with Steam Deck improvements and a new hero
While we still have no idea when Deadlock from Valve will get a properly public launch, since it's still invite-only, they do keep expanding the game in some major ways. Another big update just rolled out to this third-person MOBA.
Steam Game Recording has officially launched
No longer should you need external software just to record a fun clip of gameplay on Steam desktop and Steam Deck, with Steam Game Recording now officially live for everyone.
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- V Rising 1.1 - Invaders of Oakveil will bring lots of new content and official Steam Deck support
- The final Baldur's Gate 3 patch is out now with cross-play, photo mode, new subclasses
- Valve's SteamOS 3.7.3 Preview improves support for Asus and Lenovo handhelds
- Merging a western with eldritch horror, Blood West is awesome and now Steam Deck Verified
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