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dbrand bring out a universal mount for Steam Deck Killswitch

By Liam Dawe, about 3 hours ago

Do you have the Killswitch case for your Steam Deck? Well dbrand have come up with their own universal mount so you can strap anything you want to the back of it.

ELDEN RING tops the Steam Deck most played for May 2023

By Liam Dawe, 4 days ago

Once again, ELDEN RING has managed to become the number 1 most played game on Steam Deck, after hovering close to it over the last couple of months. Here's the top 20 most played on Steam Deck for May 2023.

Proton Experimental update fixes "many" games on Steam Deck and desktop Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 days ago

Valve has put out a small update to Proton Experimental, which should fix many games due to a regression that was hiding away.

Steam Deck hits South Korea retail via Electromart on June 1st

By Liam Dawe, May 29

Valve's partner Komodo has announced that they're expanding the Steam Deck retail presence into South Korea on June 1st.

Valve upgrades Proton Experimental with a number of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, May 26

Today there's a new build of Proton Experimental available for Steam Deck and desktop Linux gamers, with it Valve has given us a bunch of bug fixes.

VKD3D-Proton v2.9 out now with multiple performance improvements

By Liam Dawe, May 22

Just before the weekend hit VKD3D-Proton v2.9 was release, giving some big improvements to the Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation layer used in Proton on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

FX Technology tease their upgraded screen for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, May 18

Fancy upgrading the resolution of your Steam Deck screen? Well it seems FX Technology also known as F(x)tec are planning to offer Steam Deck screen upgrades under the Deck HD brand.

Proton Experimental fixes The Elder Scrolls Online launcher & improves Street Fighter 6

By Liam Dawe, May 18

A fresh May upgrade for Proton Experimental has arrived giving us a few tweaks to improve some select games. Here's what's new in the May 17th upgrade.

Valve tries to improve Big Picture Mode on Linux for NVIDIA GPUs

By Liam Dawe, May 18

In the latest Steam Beta Client for desktop, Valve has made an attempt to improve the experience for NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux.

Immersion Corporation sues Valve over Steam Deck and Valve Index haptics tech

By Liam Dawe, May 17

Immersion Corporation have a history of taking on companies and winning, with Valve being the latest in the firing line over Immersion's patents.

Steam gets game trials with Dead Space being first, plus Valve dumps Google Analytics

By Liam Dawe, May 16

Two bits of Steam news for you here, as Valve continue iterating on Steam features for players and developers.

Dead by Daylight gets Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe, May 10

Well, I've been waiting to see what the public official word would be on Dead by Daylight and now it's official. Dead by Daylight is now Steam Deck Verified.

Steam Deck news round-up for early May 2023

By Liam Dawe, May 9

Since there's so much happening and it can be hard to keep track, here's a little round-up of some happenings with the Steam Deck (and Steam as a whole) plus a little gaming news.

Valve gave Steam store search a very useful upgrade

By Liam Dawe, May 8

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.

Steam will now scale better with KDE and GNOME

By Liam Dawe, May 8

In the latest Beta release for Steam from May 5th, Valve finally did some more work on scaling the UI of the Steam Client.

Proton Experimental improves EA app, Battle.net and nvapi enabled for many games

By Liam Dawe, May 8

A rather great sounding update to Proton Experimental landed on May 5th, so here's a run over what's new and improved.

Steam Deck hits over 9,000 games rated Verified and Playable

By Liam Dawe, May 4

Another juicy milestone for Valve with the Steam Deck, as it now has over 9,000 games rated as either Verified or Playable.

Valve limits Steam store pages to 2 trailers before screenshots

By Liam Dawe, May 3

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.