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Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.9 Preview 'Well Paced Edition' brings more fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Even more fixes are landing in Preview for Steam Deck in the SteamOS 3.5.9 Preview: Well Paced Edition update. I'm enjoying Valve giving them fun code-names too.

Songs of Conquest working on improved Steam Deck / Gamepad support

By Liam Dawe,
Songs of Conquest is an impressive Early Access turn-based strategy adventure game and it has a new Beta available you may want to test on Steam Deck or with a gamepad.

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.8 now in Preview

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a fresh SteamOS update into Preview for Steam Deck, with SteamOS 3.5.8 out now fixing up various problems since the big 3.5 update.

KDE Plasma 6 - Beta 1 released

By Liam Dawe,
The KDE team continue sprinting towards to finish line of the Plasma 6 release next year, with a Beta release now available for the popular Linux desktop environment which is also used on Steam Deck.

SteamOS 3.5.3 Preview fixes LCD issues, plus Steam Deck / Desktop Beta adds HDR info

By Liam Dawe,
Three pieces of Steam news for you today covering the Steam Deck and desktop Steam as there's been various updates and improvements.

Steam Deck, Steam Big Picture and SteamVR get lots of visual tweaks in new Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a fresh Beta update across Steam Deck, Steam Big Picture and SteamVR that includes lots of subtle visual tweaks to the UI to make it look a bit fancier.

Valve refines new Steam Deck Unified Frame Limit slider to show Refresh Rate

By Liam Dawe,
Available currently in the Steam Deck Preview that I recently covered, there's a new Unified Frame Rate and Refresh Rate slider but Valve has done a useful tweak in the latest update.

Steam Deck Preview update has a Unified Refresh Rate and Framerate Limit slider

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released a fresh Beta and Preview update for the Steam Deck, which tweaks some existing features like the refresh rate and frame limit sliders to merge them into one slider to rule them all.

Latest Steam Client Beta has some useful controller support upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has rolled out a fresh Steam Client Beta for desktop which includes some really good sounding improvements for controller support, so here's what's new.

SteamVR 2.0 Beta continues improving on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Now that SteamVR 2.0 is officially out, Valve has continued to push out Beta releases with other improvements and the Linux situation with SteamVR seems better now too.

Warzone 2100 4.4.0 Beta 1 brings new high-quality terrain

By Liam Dawe,
Ah, what a classic! Warzone 2100 is a quality real-time strategy game that was originally a full proprietary commercial release from 1999 that's nowadays free and open source and it only keeps getting better!

Valheim testing a Unity upgrade with lots of optimizations

By Liam Dawe,
Iron Gate announced a new public test release Beta of Valheim, which brings with it a Unity game engine upgrade that includes multiple performance enhancements to improve the game. So time to get testing.

Valve fixes up more SteamVR 2.0 Beta issues on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Another Beta update has landed for SteamVR 2.0, and this time it seems at least the initial startup issues may now be solved for most VR gamers on Linux.

Steam Deck gets a fix for a startup bug, plus more Steam Input upgrades for all

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released another update to the Steam Deck, the desktop Steam client and SteamVR. Here's a run over what's changed for you including a needed startup fix for Steam Deck.

Steam Deck Beta gets some essential bug fixes and new Gyro options

By Liam Dawe,
Valve put up some nice bug fixes in the latest Preview and Beta updates for the Steam Deck, here's a run over what's new and improved for you.

Begin your industrial revolution in the latest Minecraft Snapshot

By Liam Dawe,
Now that Minecraft Live is over the developers have begun pushing out preview builds ahead of the upcoming release of Minecraft 1.21. A fresh Snapshot was just released with new features like the Crafter block.

NVIDIA Beta driver 545.23.06 released for Linux, plenty of new features

By Liam Dawe,
After being a little quiet for a while, NVIDIA released Beta driver 545.23.06 which includes a bunch of new features and a few bug fixes too.

Steam Desktop and Steam Deck Beta add new Gyro Mode and fixes in-game purchases

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a fresh update to the Steam Client for Desktop and Steam Deck, which fixes a couple of bugs while also providing another new experimental Gyro Mode.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.5.1 Preview fixes backlight staying on when docked

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has now released the latest SteamOS 3.5.1 Preview for download, fixing up some more issues in the Steam Deck OS like the backlight staying on when docked.

Steam Deck gets a 'Laser Pointer' Gyro mode, plus more desktop and SteamVR work

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released some more Steam Deck Beta Client updates recently, one of them including an interesting new Gyro mode so here's all the details on what's new.
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