Team Fortress 2 Classic scrap their open beta and new Valve rules likely mean they have to change the name gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/team…

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Team Fortress 2 Classic scrap their open beta and new Valve rules likely mean they have to change the name

Team Fortress 2 Classic is an upcoming Source Engine mod based on Valve's Team Fortress 2, it was due to hold an open beta but they've had to scrap it.

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SteamOS 3.7.15 brings fixes for ROG Ally, Legion Go, wake-on-bluetooth returns for Steam Deck LCD and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/stea…

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SteamOS 3.7.15 brings fixes for ROG Ally, Legion Go, wake-on-bluetooth returns for Steam Deck LCD and more

Valve released SteamOS 3.7.15 stable bringing improvements for the Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go and lots of security issues fixed.

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Valve revamps the Steam store menu with enhanced searching gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/valv…

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Valve revamps the Steam store menu with enhanced searching

After being in Beta since July and previously only in the Steam Client, Valve have released the refresh of the Steam store menu with enhanced search.

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ICYMI: No date yet for the Team Fortress 2 MvM update but Valve still working on it gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/no-d…

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No date yet for the Team Fortress 2 MvM update but Valve still working on it

Team Fortress 2 is still set for a nice upgrade to the Mann vs. Machine (MvM) game mode, with Valve providing a brief update on it.

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No date yet for the Team Fortress 2 MvM update but Valve still working on it gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/no-d…

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No date yet for the Team Fortress 2 MvM update but Valve still working on it

Team Fortress 2 is still set for a nice upgrade to the Mann vs. Machine (MvM) game mode, with Valve providing a brief update on it.

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New Valve trademark for 'Steam Frame', looks like we're getting new hardware gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/new-…

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New Valve trademark for 'Steam Frame', looks like we're getting new hardware

Valve have a new trademark filed for Steam Frame, with it appearing to be multiple new types of hardware that's on the way.

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Leaks again hint at Valve doing a proper Steam Machine Console gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/leak…

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Leaks again hint at Valve doing a proper Steam Machine Console

We are again seeing leaks of a potential future console from Valve, which is exciting considering how well the Steam Deck has done.

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7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/7-ye…

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7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux

It has been 7 years since Valve revealed Proton, their compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux systems. What an incredible time it has been.

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Valve continue building up their new game Deadlock with a big update with six new heroes gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/valv…

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Valve continue building up their new game Deadlock with a big update with six new heroes

Valve developers are still working on their upcoming game Deadlock, a third-person MOBA and the latest update is a pretty big one.

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Valve announce language-specific user review scores for Steam games gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/valv…

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Valve announce language-specific user review scores for Steam games

Valve have carefully tweaked the user review system for Steam games, to now include language-specific user review scores.

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Valve finally upgraded the Steam trailer video player, re-encoding around 400,000 videos gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/valv…

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Valve finally upgraded the Steam trailer video player, re-encoding around 400,000 videos

The Steam trailer video player was old and not especially great, but now perhaps it might actually work a lot better with a big upgrade.

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Valve reveal new Steam store menu and enhanced search now in Beta gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/valv…

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Valve reveal new Steam store menu and enhanced search now in Beta

If you're on the Steam Client Beta (Desktops), you might have noticed the Steam store looking a bit different with the latest update.

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Garry's Mod now has lots of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 content included gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/garr…

#GarrysMod #Gaming #PCGaming #Steam #Valve #Facepunch

Garry's Mod now has lots of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 content included

Valve have given special permission to Garry's Mod from Facepunch to include a whole bunch of extra content for the popular physics sandbox.

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Team Fortress 2 adds 10 new maps for a summer event and more bug fixes gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/team…

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Team Fortress 2 adds 10 new maps for a summer event and more bug fixes

While this is not the Mann vs Machine update we were previously promised, Team Fortress 2 still has a big update our for the Summer 2025 Event.

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Valve replied with a statement on the recent new game dev rule from payment processors and some adult games being removed

gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/valv…

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Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed

Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam.

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Steam adds Trade Protected Items starting with Counter-Strike 2, along with a bit of Half-Life fan trolling gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/stea…

#CS2 #Steam #Valve #Gaming #PCGaming

Steam adds Trade Protected Items starting with Counter-Strike 2, along with a bit of Half-Life fan trolling

Counter-Strike 2 has begun a new season, and Valve added a new feature called Trade Protected Items and they're poking fun at Half-Life fans too.

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Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/valv…

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Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed

Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam.

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Mann vs. Machine is getting an upgrade in Team Fortress 2 gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/mann…

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Mann vs. Machine is getting an upgrade in Team Fortress 2

Valve announced via an official Team Fortress 2 blog post that the Mann vs. Machine mode is getting upgraded and they've called for help.

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Steam Beta brings new accessibility options for Steam Big Picture Mode gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stea…

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Steam Beta brings new accessibility options for Steam Big Picture Mode

Valve updated the main Desktop Steam Beta, to bring new accessibility options for Steam Big Picture mode and other improvements.

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SteamOS 3.7.10 Beta brings a Steam Deck OLED WiFi fix, new accessibility options and more work for other handhelds gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stea…

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SteamOS 3.7.10 Beta brings a Steam Deck OLED WiFi fix, new accessibility options and more work for other handhelds

Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.10 Beta bringing lots of fixes for the Steam Deck, additional accessibility options and a bit of work for more handhelds.

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Steam gets a new Steam Deck-like Performance Monitor now in Beta replacing the FPS counter gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stea…

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Steam gets a new Steam Deck-like Performance Monitor now in Beta replacing the FPS counter

Valve released another Steam Client Beta update and this time, they're giving Desktop gamers a whole new Performance Monitor HUD.

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Steam adds accessibility features to store pages and filters for searching gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stea…

#Steam #Gaming #Accessibility #PCGaming #Valve

Steam adds accessibility features to store pages and filters for searching

As Valve announced back in April, they've now added accessibility feature support to game pages on Steam pages and filters for searching.

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Supply chain issues are making the Steam Deck OLED go out of stock gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/supp…

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Supply chain issues are making the Steam Deck OLED go out of stock

Valve have put up a notice in the USA and Canada, where multiple models of the Steam Deck OLED have now gone completely out of stock.

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SteamOS Manager for BIOS updates, TDP and GPU clock controls now open source gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/stea…

#SteamOS #Valve #Steam #SteamDeck

SteamOS Manager for BIOS updates, TDP and GPU clock controls now open source

On Valve's official public GitLab, they've recently put up SteamOS Manager under the open source MIT license following the SteamOS 3.7 release for more devices.

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Valve refresh Steam's monthly top-releases charts, going all the way back to the release of Half-Life 2 gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/valv…

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Valve refresh Steam's monthly top-releases charts, going all the way back to the release of Half-Life 2

The crazy coders at Valve had been making the monthly top lists manually this whole time, but no more. They've given their monthly top-releases charts a fresh makeover and you can scroll all the way back to the release of Half-Life 2.

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Here's a statement from Valve on the reported Steam data breach gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/here…

#Steam #Valve #PCGaming #Gaming

Here's a statement from Valve on the reported Steam data breach

There's been reports of a Steam data breach recently, and instead of jumping the gun I reached out to Valve first to see what was going on. Here's a statement from Valve.

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Steam Deck sales still going strong over three years later gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/stea…

#SteamDeck #Steam #Valve #SteamOS

Steam Deck sales still going strong over three years later

Back in February we hit the three year mark of Valve's Steam Deck with SteamOS Linux, and as we approach the release of the public SteamOS 3 Beta for more devices, here's an updated look at the sales charts.

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Proton Experimental updates to Proton 10 with fixes for Marvel Rivals, Oblivion Remastered and more for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/prot…

#Linux #SteamDeck #Steam #Valve #Gaming

Proton Experimental updates to Proton 10 with fixes for Marvel Rivals, Oblivion Remastered and more for Steam Deck / Linux

Now that Proton 10 had a Beta release to bring improved game compatibility to Linux Desktop and Steam Deck, Valve have also updated their testing ground with Proton Experimental seeing an update to be based on Proton 10 plus extra fixes.

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Steam will soon list what accessibility features games support on store pages gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/stea…

#Accessibility #Gaming #Steam #Valve #PCGaming

Steam will soon list what accessibility features games support on store pages

Finally. Something many have been asking for Valve to do for a long time now, and something I've pointed out multiple times across various articles - Steam pages will soon list what accessibility features games support on store pages.

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Valve continues preparing the Steam Deck OS to release for more devices with SteamOS 3.7.4 Preview gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/valv…

#SteamOS #SteamDeck #Steam #Valve #HandheldGaming

Valve continues preparing the Steam Deck OS to release for more devices with SteamOS 3.7.4 Preview

SteamOS 3.7.4 Preview is out now and it contains only a few bug fixes, but one sounds pretty darn important to give non-Steam Deck users a good experience.

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Valve have put back both Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced and Rainbow Six Siege as Steam Deck Unsupported again - article updated: gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/surp…

#SteamDeck #SteamOS #AntiCheat #Steam #Valve

Surprisingly, Valve rated Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced and Rainbow Six Siege as Steam Deck Playable

Even though both of them have anti-cheat that blocks Linux platforms from playing online, Valve have suddenly rated both Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced and Rainbow Six Siege as Steam Deck Playable.

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Former Blue Systems devs form Techpaladin Software to work on KDE with Valve as their first client gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/form…

#TechpaladinSoftware #KDE #OpenSource #KDEPlasma #Linux #Valve #Steam

Former Blue Systems devs form Techpaladin Software to work on KDE with Valve as their first client

Here's one I missed from earlier this week. KDE developer Nate Graham announced the formation of an open source consultancy company called Techpaladin Software, with their first client being Valve to continue improving the Steam Deck desktop mode whi…

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330 million hours played on Steam Deck in 2024 up 64% from 2023 - Steam Year In Review 2024 gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/330-…

#Steam #SteamDeck #Valve #SteamOS #Gaming #PCGaming

330 million hours played on Steam Deck in 2024 up 64% from 2023 - Steam Year In Review 2024

Valve have released their Steam Year In Review 2024 and it's full of interesting data, as well as going over all the changes Valve made to Steam during 2024. Nice to see the Steam Deck and Linux doing so well overall for Valve.

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Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.22 brings a fix for pre-compiled shader downloads gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/stea…

#SteamOS #SteamDeck #Linux #Steam #Valve

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

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

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There's been a flood in the Wandering Waters update for Dota 2 gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/ther…

#Dota2 #Steam #Valve #PCGaming

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

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.

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Valve pinch a little code from Godot for Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Team Fortress 2 gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/valv…

#Godot #OpenSource #Steam #Valve #HL2 #CounterStrike #Gaming

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

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.

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Team Fortress 2 major update released and source available for modders via the Source SDK gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/team…

#TeamFortress2 #PCGaming #Linux #Steam #Valve #Modding

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

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!

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Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source get major updates with 64bit support gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/coun…

#Valve #Steam #PCGaming #CounterStrike #DayofDefeat

Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source get major updates with 64bit support

A nice surprise for some classic Valve games today with multiple titles like Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source getting major updates.

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