Steam Deck recently had two Beta releases, here's what's changed

Valve has rolled out two updates for the Beta Branch of the Steam Deck within two days, August 17th and August 19th. Here's what's changed.

Steam Beta updated with Indonesian support, 4K high quality streaming preset

Valve has released a new Beta version of the Steam client for desktop and Steam Deck, plus an expansion to add in Indonesian language support.

Looks like Valve will sell refurbished Steam Decks

Valve seemed to let slip a bit early that they plan to sell refurbished models of Steam Deck for cheaper prices but the store pages were quickly hidden.

Team Fortress 2 gets another update with lots of fixes

With the Summer Event live until September 15th, 2023 it seems Valve still aren't quite done updating Team Fortress 2 with the renewed popularity.

Dolphin Emulator devs give up on Steam release

After all the ruckus recently about the Dolphin Emulator for Wii and GameCube coming to Steam, and then being blocked - the team has now given up with the Steam release.

Valve release new stable update for Steam Deck and desktops

Valve has bundled up all the recent Beta updates for Steam Deck and desktop Steam into a fresh stable update so here's a list of what's new.

Valve appear to be banning games with AI art on Steam

Here's an interesting one on Steam publishing for you. Valve appear to be clamping down on AI art used in games due to the murky legal waters.

Steam Deck now the global #1 top seller on Steam

With the Steam Summer Sale 2023 now in full swing, and with a big discount on the Steam Deck, it has risen back up the Steam charts.

Valve appear to be banning games with AI art on Steam

Here's an interesting one on Steam publishing for you. Valve appear to be clamping down on AI art used in games due to the murky legal waters.

Valve pulls in another graphics driver developer for Linux gaming

Valve clearly still have plenty of big ambitions for Linux gaming and Steam Deck, and as it turns out recently they pulled in yet another developer to work on open source graphics drivers.

Valve moving away from the Battle Pass in Dota 2

As Dota 2 comes up to the 10 year anniversary, Valve developers have put up a blog post going over some of their thoughts on the future.

Steam Deck OS update brings graphics driver fixes - ready up for SteamOS 3.5

Valve has now released two small graphics driver updates for Steam Deck OS (SteamOS) 3.4.8, which means the Preview update channel is now ready for a big update to drop.

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.

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.

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.

Linux Downtime – Episode 70 – Linux Downtime

Valve improving Mesa graphics drivers on Linux for a "secret" game

Here's something interesting for you. Valve developers seem to be improving the Mesa graphics drivers right now towards a secret game.

Prepare to see a lot more of Epic Online Services, with Epic's new self-publishing

While the Epic Games Store doesn't support Linux or Steam Deck officially, this industry news is something we should all know about with Epic now opening up self-publishing along with some new rules for their store.

Valve reveals a whole bunch of upcoming Steam Sales

Valve has now revealed most of their upcoming big Steam Sales and Steam Fests, here's all the details.

Valve tricks Dota 2 cheaters and then bans 40,000 of them

In a new post titled "Cheaters Will Never Be Welcome in Dota", Valve mentioned how they managed to get a whole lot of cheaters to show themselves and then gave them a swift boot to the buttocks.

Valve promise a proper big Team Fortress 2 update is coming

Wait, what year is it? Someone pinch me, I must be dreaming. Valve announced a proper big update is planned and on the way for Team Fortress 2.

Steam Deck and Steam Beta fix on-screen keyboard, Gyro improvements, Linux input fix

More goodies coming to the Steam Deck and Steam Desktop Beta, as Valve sure do like to work quickly to solve bugs and add features.

Valve suffers a huge leak from various games like Portal, Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2

It seems the season of leaks is continuing with Steam developer Valve now having a bunch of content from their games leaked online.

Valve remind people to be careful where you buy a Steam Deck

Recently the official OnDeck Twitter account from Steam creator Valve posted a PSA (public service announcement), reminding people on being careful where they buy a Steam Deck.

Steam breaks more records with 33 million online, and over 10 million gaming

Valve started the year off rather nicely by breaking two of their own records recently with users online and users actually gaming.

Neon Prime from Valve is reportedly a third-person shooter close to release

Neon Prime isn't here yet, and there's nothing actually confirmed about it, but data miner and leaker Tyler McVicker gave a fresh overview on what to expect.

Team Fortress 2 update adds VScript and you can now run Linux inside it

Not only has Team Fortress 2 been updated but it seems like quite a huge one thanks to the addition of VScript, and you can now run Linux inside it. That's right, TF2 came to Linux back in 2013 and now TF2 itself can run Linux.

Half-Life 2, Portal, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 2 all get upgraded with DXVK 2.0 Vulkan

With the recent release of DXVK 2.0, the Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan translation layer, it pulled in DXVK-Native for Native Linux builds and so Valve has upgraded Half-Life 2, Portal, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 2.