Just recently I reported on Valve adding a new feature to Steam user reviews, showing off who played mostly on Steam Deck and now they've made this even easier.

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Deadlock, perhaps the worst kept secret from Valve, has now been softly revealed as the latest game from the maker of Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal and Team Fortress 2.

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Valve released a couple more Steam Beta Client releases recently for both Steam Deck and Desktop so here's all you need to know.

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While I can't find anywhere that Valve actually announced this, they've done another tweak to the user review system on Steam to show who primarily played on Steam Deck.

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Valve have begun the next round of testing for a new main version of Proton, the compatibility layer to run Windows games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.

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Today marks 6 years since Valve decided to change everything, especially for Linux fans, with the announcement of Steam Play Proton. Thanks to it, the Steam Deck and Desktop Linux gaming have continued to thrive.

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Some keyboards have special features like Razer's Snap Tap and Wooting's SOCD, that can give an unfair advantage in online games, and so Valve have put their foot down and entirely banned such tricks in Counter-Strike 2.

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Valve has a new hero shooter in the late stages of development. It's a secret!

Except it's not really, since over 20,000 invites to play the game have been sent out over Steam.

You're not meant to talk about it!

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Valve has confirmed SteamOS support is coming to the Asus ROG Ally and other third-party handhelds.

As reported by The Verge, Valve designer Lawrence Yang confirmed the news after an update had been spotted in the latest SteamOS patch notes.

"The note about ROG Ally keys is related to third-party device support for SteamOS," said Yang. "The team is continuing to work on adding support for additional handhelds on SteamOS."

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Valve is introducing new rules regarding store page descriptions on Steam, forbidding the inclusion of external links within the text.

Developers will no longer be allow to link to other websites, including social media pages, with Valve emphasising that the latter are covered by the specific link fields already available.

Store descriptions must also not link to other games on Steam, or use any embedded imagery that mimics Steam's UI or buttons, such as wishlist buttons.

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At this afternoon’s Opening Night Live show at Gamescom 2024, Grinding Gear Games formally announced that early access for Path of Exile 2 is slated for November 15th. In other words, MOARPG fans will have about a month to finish up Diablo IV’s Vessel of Hatred, which launches October 8th, before moseying on over to […]

At this afternoon’s Gamescom Opening Night Live, the indie team at Omeda Studios formally launched Predecessor, one of multiple MOBAs spawned from the remains of Epic Games’ open-sourced MOBA Paragon. “Today, players will be able to dive into version 1.0 on PC via Steam, Epic Games Store; and on console via PlayStation 4/5 and Xbox […]

With Skull and Bones headed to Steam on August 22nd alongside the game’s new season, Ubisoft Singapore is taking the opportunity to to improve the keyboard and mouse user experience since Steam is a PC storefront. The in-house “interview” talks up efforts to make the game “feel more ‘PC'” with its adjustments, discusses the feedback […]

It’s been quite some time since The Repopulation was in our collective radar, but that was because development of the game was ended in January 2023 according to TGS Tech, the dev group contracted by Idea Fabrik to put the sci-fi sandbox together. Of course regular readers know that wasn’t the end of the story, […]

If you’re a fan of Monster Hunter, then you’ve no doubt been watching the various weapon preview vignettes that have been coming out of Monster Hunter Wilds over the past two weeks. But maybe you haven’t been keeping up or you just want to watch them all again. In that case, there’s now a video […]

Given all of the releases that came out last year, you would be forgiven for letting the co-op critter hunting RPG Atlas Fallen slip through the mental cracks. After all, the game was, by all critical and gamer accounts, something of a middling title. However, developer Deck13 and publisher Focus Entertainment has not completely forgotten […]

Gamers who updated their Steam desktop app recently may have seen something a little new in their browsing experience: a feature that is visually prioritizing what Valve considers helpful reviews – and is thinning out the meme-filled ones. “[O]ne-word reviews, reviews comprised of ASCII art, or reviews that are primarily playful memes and in-jokes, will […]

Last month we first heard about Midnight Murder Club, a new multiplayer PvP FPS from developer Velan Studios that basically tells players to go play hide-and-seek with firearms in a dark and booby trap-filled mansion. The shooter held a closed alpha in July while release timing is currently aiming for sometime in the fall. If […]

There are evidently a lot of people who are eager to jump into the free-to-play survival shooter Once Human, even in spite of the game’s technical problems. That’s according to NetEase’s latest PR, which counts over 10 million downloads worldwide and some chart-topping success on Steam. In addition to the number of downloads (not active […]

The updates keep on a-comin’ for the free-to-play PvPvE extraction RPG Dungeonborne, which has a new patch out this week that introduces some new gameplay, a new healer ability, and a fresh set of gear to gather. The major piece of this update is Clotho’s Trial, a new limited-time PvP arena that pits two teams […]

Steam’s seeing a good few sweeping changes of late. They’ve recently added a ‘Trending Free’ tab to separate the no money down and no, money down playables. And, as of September, they’re cracking down on links to other websites in store pages. Now, horror of horrors, they’re coming for your ascii gigachads and “nobody is going to read this review so I’ll just say I’m gay” bangers. The changes are part of their ‘New Helpfulness System’, outlined here.

The new system, which will be enabled by default but can be toggled off, aims to “help potential players make informed decisions about the games they are considering purchasing by understanding the attributes of the game that other players like or don't like.” Ah, so a sort of ‘review’, if you will. I like it!

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Valve have made no secret of their plans to make SteamOS – the Linux-based operating system that powers the Steam Deck – available to other games-playing devices, including rival handhelds. After a recent beta update mentioned adding support for the Asus ROG Ally’s inputs, The Verge confirmed with Valve that SteamOS support for non-Steam Deck portables is still very much in the works. The Deck’s long-promised dual booting capability, on the other hand, sounds further down the to-do list.

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Finding and sharing Free Stuff is one of the time-honoured duties of the video game journalist or SEO-monger. Back when I was OXM's online editor, "free Xbox games" was one of our golden Google pillars, the other two being "Minecraft Xbox 360 update" and "Skyrim something something". Well, uncle Valve has just rudely torpedoed that ancient investigative initiative by adding a Trending Free tab to the Steam frontpage, encompassing prologues, demos, free-to-play games and that most treasured of jewels, a full free game with no monetisation elements, such as Grimhook.

Do not cry for us pitiful electronic scribblers, crowded on our melting internet icebergs. Play free games instead! Thanks to that new tab, I've just discovered a demo for neato wide-format tower defender Frontline Crisis. Hah, that'll keep the awareness of steady livelihood erosion at bay.

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Steam’s seeing a good few sweeping changes of late. They’ve recently added a ‘Trending Free’ tab to separate the no money down and no, money down playables. And, as of September, they’re cracking down on links to other websites in store pages. Now, horror of horrors, they’re coming for your ascii gigachads and “nobody is going to read this review so I’ll just say I’m gay” bangers. The changes are part of their ‘New Helpfulness System’, outlined here.

The new system, which will be enabled by default but can be toggled off, aims to “help potential players make informed decisions about the games they are considering purchasing by understanding the attributes of the game that other players like or don't like.” Ah, so a sort of ‘review’, if you will. I like it!

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Valve have made no secret of their plans to make SteamOS – the Linux-based operating system that powers the Steam Deck – available to other games-playing devices, including rival handhelds. After a recent beta update mentioned adding support for the Asus ROG Ally’s inputs, The Verge confirmed with Valve that SteamOS support for non-Steam Deck portables is still very much in the works. The Deck’s long-promised dual booting capability, on the other hand, sounds further down the to-do list.

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Finding and sharing Free Stuff is one of the time-honoured duties of the video game journalist or SEO-monger. Back when I was OXM's online editor, "free Xbox games" was one of our golden Google pillars, the other two being "Minecraft Xbox 360 update" and "Skyrim something something". Well, uncle Valve has just rudely torpedoed that ancient investigative initiative by adding a Trending Free tab to the Steam frontpage, encompassing prologues, demos, free-to-play games and that most treasured of jewels, a full free game with no monetisation elements, such as Grimhook.

Do not cry for us pitiful electronic scribblers, crowded on our melting internet icebergs. Play free games instead! Thanks to that new tab, I've just discovered a demo for neato wide-format tower defender Frontline Crisis. Hah, that'll keep the awareness of steady livelihood erosion at bay.

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The MNT Pocket Reform is a modular, open source mini-laptop that went up for pre-order last year through a crowdfunding campaign and began shipping this summer. Thanks to its modular design, the system was always made with customization in mind: the brains of the system are on a removable system-on-a-module (SoM) with a processor, memory, […]

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The Steam Deck is a handheld gaming PC that ships with a Linux-based operating system called SteamOS. And that operating system is something of a mixed blessing: on the one hand, it’s designed from the ground up for handhelds, which has led many to conclude that the SteamOS offers a better user experience than Windows […]

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A small Beta update landed for Steam Desktop and Steam Deck, bringing in a few needed fixes so here's what's new from the August 19th update.

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While it is not in any way officially supported by Valve, they have now released Windows drivers for the newer Steam Deck OLED model.

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I'm sure you've all seen some of the more playful user reviews on Steam, but they're not exactly helpful for figuring out if you want to buy a game and so Valve have a new "Helpfulness System" they're testing.

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Valve have released yet another Beta for the upcoming release of Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6, this time fixing some really annoying issues.

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A fresh Steam Beta Client has been released for Desktop and Steam Deck, with a few fixes and upgrades and the change for Steam Families is especially nice.

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We've known for a long time that Valve planned to get the newer SteamOS that's on the Steam Deck out for more systems, but they've been a bit quiet on it. Now, they've confirmed it's still the plan for the likes of the ROG Ally and other systems.

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This is a bit of a win for consumers I think, as some developers were making a right mess of their Steam store pages as Valve have now announced some big changes.

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Valve updated Proton Experimental for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux again, bringing in the usual assortment of bug fixes.

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Valve released a pretty important set of bug fixes for the Steam Deck with the new SteamOS 3.6.9 Beta, plus an interesting mention of the ASUS ROG Ally that could point to things to come.

Take this with your usual scepticism, but it appears Valve are working on another new game (no not Deadlock that leaked previously) which may end up being Half-Life 3.

Uh oh. Not only did we recently have the issue with The Jackbox Megapicker breaking the Steam Deck, but now plugins via Decky Loader too.

No news is good news, as the saying goes, or something like that. Valve updated the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for July 2024 and for Linux / Steam Deck the changes were pretty minimal.

A fresh month is here, so it's time to take a look at what's been popular amongst players on Steam Deck, and another chance for you to all discuss what you've been playing across Desktop Linux and Steam Deck.

Valve updated Proton Experimental to finish up July with some game fixes, as a little treat. So you can play even more games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux thanks to their work.

In the latest Steam Client Beta for Desktop and Steam Deck, Valve will actually show you who is gaming on a Steam Deck.

While I still grumble that Defense is the accepted spelling as a brit I want to always type Defence but anyway the Steam Tower Defense Fest 2024 is now live.

Valve have overhauled the way game demos work on Steam in some big ways, and it sounds like a really good thing for both developers and players.

We wouldn’t normally cover an MMORPG promotion with a third party, but in the case of Elder Scrolls Online and Alienware, the promo includes an event with free stuff that our readers might want to get in on – and all you have to do is go play the game. “During the next phase of […]

Is Drakantos an MMORPG? A co-op OARPG? The answer to that question is the primary subject of Wingeon Game Studios’ June dev blog, which confirms that the title is “an MMORPG at its core,” though it’s also attempting to do things a bit differently from the standard formula of the genre. While Drakantos will have […]

With about three weeks of early access under its belt, the PvPvE extraction RPG Dungeonborne has elected to start making some larger updates to the title, such as the one that arrived earlier this week with a small cornucopia of new things. First, the Rogue class now has the Shadow Veil skill that lets them […]

Aw shoot, here we go again. Another spinoff MOBA built from the bones of the shuttered Paragon is about to head from early access game to a full release, and that game is Predecessor, the game from indie studio Omeda Studios that we’ve been keeping tabs on since last March and is now plotting it’s […]

Indie MMORPG Project Gorgon dropped a fresh content-and-QOL patch this week in what devs characterized as a “nice well-rounded update” with a little bit of everything. For starters, Elder Game has tweaked the way area-of-effect attacks work against mobs. The devs explain that because AOE against mobs saw a reduction in direct damage but not […]