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Here's the most played Steam Deck games for October 2024

By Liam Dawe,
Another month has finished! So here's a look back over what games people have been playing the most on Steam Deck for October 2024.

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered may need a workaround on desktop Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered is out now and like other recent Sony PlayStation releases on PC, it forces a PlayStation Network Account which is causing issues for some desktop Linux players.

Black Mesa has a new Beta with 'WAY better' support for Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Crowbar Collective have a fresh Beta available for Black Mesa, their fan-made reimagining of Valve Software's Half-Life. This brings with it some nice improvements all across the game, especially for Linux platforms like Steam Deck.

Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania is out now and it's a huge expansion

By Liam Dawe,
Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania DLC is out now and it's a rather large addition to an already great game.

EA / Respawn now block Apex Legends from running on Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
The developers of Apex Legends have announced that they're going to be blocking the game completely on Linux platforms including Steam Deck.

Steam Deck the 'perfect platform' for their game say Escape From Castle Matsumoto devs

By Liam Dawe,
Escape From Castle Matsumoto looks like quite a unique one, and the developers give the Steam Deck some rather high praise.

Claim a free copy of the classic Return of the Phantom during the GOG Halloween Sale

By Liam Dawe,
Time for another free game. GOG are giving away Return of the Phantom from MPS Labs / Ziggurat Interactive.

Epic roguelike Caves of Qud now has a proper tutorial

By Liam Dawe,
Gearing up for the final 1.0 release on December 5, the sci-fi fantasy epic roguelike Caves of Qud now has a proper tutorial released.

Check out the Halloween Horror Collection Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Some spooky treats available in the Halloween Horror Collection Humble Bundle, if you can handle it that is. You're not a scaredy-cat right?

Mesa 24.2.6 graphics drivers released with a few more bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
The Mesa team have released another bug-fix update with Mesa 24.2.6 available now, with a couple more bug-fix releases planned before they move onto Mesa 24.3 next month.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.20 Beta has an updater fix and Metaphor: ReFantazio performance improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Following on from the huge SteamOS 3.6 update for Steam Deck, Valve has put up SteamOS 3.6.20 Beta with a few more improvements.

Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages

By Liam Dawe,
Valve announced a change for Steam today that will make things a lot clearer for everyone, as developers will now need to clearly list the kernel-level anti-cheat used on Steam store pages.

Luma Island devs spent an 'enormous amount of effort' to make it smooth on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Luma Island looks pretty sweet from Feel Free Games, a game that combines together elements of adventuring and building together that you can play solo or with up to 4 people together.

COVEN is a fresh 'hyper-violent' retro FPS now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Gator Shins and Hellforge Studios have released the first 10 blood-soaked levels of COVEN, a really fresh new retro FPS.

KDE's end of year fundraiser is live

By Liam Dawe,
If you appreciate the work from the KDE team on things like the Plasma desktop environment, maybe it's time to give them a little donation.

Bazzite updated to Fedora 41 with expanded PC gaming handheld support

By Liam Dawe,
Bazzite Linux has seen an upgrade to the just released Fedora 41, and with it comes lots of extra enhancements to their support of various PC gaming handhelds from AYANEO, ROG Ally and others.

Fedora 41 is out now with plenty of enhancements like easier NVIDIA driver installs

By Liam Dawe,
Fedora 41 is officially out now and brings with it plenty of upgrades for all users. Here's just some of what's new and improved.

Steam Beta adds plenty of Game Recording improvements plus a Steam Play update

By Liam Dawe,
Valve rolled out another two Steam Client Beta updates recently, as they continue pushing the Game Recording system towards a stable release. The fixes are the same for Steam Deck and Desktop since it's a Steam Client update.

Beelink have open-sourced their Multi-Functional EX Docking Station for mini PCs

By Liam Dawe,
Hardware vendor Beelink have "open-sourced" their Multi-Functional EX Docking Station that you can use to extend their GTi Ultra Series mini PCs with a full GPU.

Stellaris: Grand Archive and a free update are out now

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox have released Stellaris: Grand Archive, a pretty fun sounding story pack for their popular sci-fi grand strategy game. There's also a free update out now as well.