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Valve's FEX-Emu Support Shows a Better Way to Fund Open Source

The company has quietly funded FEX-Emu since 2018 as an open source project.

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Igalia detail their open source work for Valve's Steam Frame and Steam Machine gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/igal…

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Igalia detail their open source work for Valve's Steam Frame and Steam Machine

One of the great things about Valve's hardware is that it's not locked down, and they put a lot of money into open source for SteamOS (Linux).

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Valve put up a new Steam Linux Runtime 4.0 with a move towards 64-bit gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/valv…

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Valve put up a new Steam Linux Runtime 4.0 with a move towards 64-bit

To ensure games run well on Linux either via Native Linux builds or Windows games with Proton, part of the magic is in the Steam Linux Runtime.

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Steam Deck gets display-off low power downloads in a new stable update gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/stea…

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Steam Deck gets display-off low power downloads in a new stable update

Valve have released the big upgrade for Steam Deck that brings display-off low power downloads for everyone now, after a short time in Beta.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Hot on the heels of the Steam Frame announcement, SteamVR Beta 2.14.1 brings more fixes gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/hot-…

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Hot on the heels of the Steam Frame announcement, SteamVR Beta 2.14.1 brings more fixes

Valve only just released the latest stable SteamVR update in version 2.13, but SteamVR 2.14.1 Beta is now here as well with more tweaks and fixes.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

KOMODO's Steam Deck store is renaming to KOMODO STATION - perhaps ahead of the Steam Frame gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/komo…

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KOMODO's Steam Deck store is renaming to KOMODO STATION - perhaps ahead of the Steam Frame

Something is definitely happening in Valve land, as the KOMODO Steam Deck Store is being renamed KOMODO STATION tomorrow, November 13th.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

SteamVR 2.13 brings a whole lot of bug fixes gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/stea…

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SteamVR 2.13 brings a whole lot of bug fixes

While many of us our no doubt waiting on whatever the Steam Frame turns out to be, Valve have released the latest stable SteamVR release with lots of bug fixes.

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Valve doing more of a Steam Deck push with their Steam Deck Verified game pages gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/valv…

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Valve doing more of a Steam Deck push with their Steam Deck Verified game pages

Valve are still pushing their Steam Deck ahead with many developers now adding their own special dedicated Steam Deck Verified page.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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…

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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

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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…

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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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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

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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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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

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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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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…

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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…

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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.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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

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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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