Category: Valve

Valve are moving fast with Steam Play updates! Just today they've released the Steam Play 3.16-1 beta which is a pretty big deal.

Valve continue their usual polishing of the Steam Client, with the latest stable update including some fixes for Steam Play.

Valve continue pushing ahead with improvements to their Steam Play system with the most recent beta now being out for everyone.

Early this morning Valve officially rolled out a big update to the Steam Play whitelist, which indicates Windows games that work well with Steam Play's Proton.

Valve continue updating their popular FPS Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, with the latest update giving the Linux version some more attention.

After some pretty quick updates following the initial release of Steam Play, things have quietened down somewhat. However, work on the next version of Steam Play is in progress.

Starting on Tuesday, September 25th Valve will be actively moderating all game forums on Steam unless a developer opts to not have Valve do so.

Thanks to a tip in our Discord, we've found out today that Valve have been fined 147 thousand euros in France.

Subset Games are a developer I was especially keen to speak to about Valve's Steam Play system, since Into the Breach is included as a white-listed game by Valve even though they're working on a Linux version.

For those of you sticking with the stable channel of Steam Play's Proton system, Valve have today rolled out all the recent beta changes for everyone.

Another Beta version of Proton is available for Valve's Steam Play for those who wish to give it a go with the latest fixes.

Valve, CodeWeavers and the community have continued updating Steam Play's Proton and now the beta version of Proton has another new build out.

Valve seem to be moving pretty quickly with Steam Play, as a new stable Steam Client is out which includes preliminary support for the new Steam Play Beta.

The already long list of Dota 2 heroes is now even bigger, as Valve have released an update with Grimstroke as well as teased another called Mars.

Valve are now offering a chance to test a beta of the next version of Proton in their Steam Play system.

With the dust settling on the absolute bomb that Valve dropped with the new Steam Play feature, I’ve had a little time now to think about the broader implications.

It seems there was a bit of a woops with the Beta release of Valve's new Steam Play system Proton, which is now fixed.

As we speculated previously, Valve have now officially announced their new version of 'Steam Play' for Linux gaming using a modified distribution of Wine, called Proton.

Reddit seems to be buzzing with information from SteamDB showing indications that Valve might be adding support for compatibility tools to enable you to play games on operating systems they weren't designed for, like Wine.

Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais announced on Twitter that they've hired Andrey Smirnov to help them get some SteamOS changes upstream into the main Linux Kernel.