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Valve upgrades Steam Families and Game Recording in the latest Steam Beta
A fresh Steam Beta Client has been released for Desktop and Steam Deck, with a few fixes and upgrades and the change for Steam Families is especially nice.
Category: Beta
SteamOS 3.6.9 Beta for Steam Deck curiously mentions the ASUS ROG Ally
Valve released a pretty important set of bug fixes for the Steam Deck with the new SteamOS 3.6.9 Beta, plus an interesting mention of the ASUS ROG Ally that could point to things to come.
NVIDIA Linux Driver Beta 560.31.02 Out Now
NVIDIA today released a fresh update to the current ongoing 560 Beta driver series with version 560.31.02 bringing some bug fixes.
Manjaro Linux gets an Immutable version available for testing
The Manjaro Linux team have announced the first round of testing for their new Manjaro Immutable version of the popular Linux distribution.
Steam will now show you who is playing on Steam Deck
In the latest Steam Client Beta for Desktop and Steam Deck, Valve will actually show you who is gaming on a Steam Deck.
NVIDIA 560 Linux driver Beta has Wayland improvements, defaults to open GPU kernel modules
NVIDIA has released a fresh Beta to get you testing all the latest features and fixes. So here's what's new in the NVIDIA 560.28.03 driver Beta for Linux.
Steam stable update released, and a Beta with lots of fixes for Desktop and Steam Deck
Valve released multiple updates just recently including a Stable Steam Client update for all and another Beta release with fixes for Desktop and Steam Deck.
Steam Beta adds many more Game Recording improvements
For both Steam desktop and Steam Deck, Valve released a fresh Steam Beta update that includes more improvements for the awesome new Game Recording feature.
Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' gets a Beta release
Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' has a first Beta release available for testing, built on top of Ubuntu 24.04 it will be supported until 2029.
Steam Deck plugin system Decky Loader 3.0 gets a first pre-release
Decky Loader is a very popular tool to add plugins to the Steam Deck Gaming Mode, and Decky Loader 3.0 should be a big improvement.
Steam Game Recording Beta announced - works on Linux and Steam Deck too
Another big upgrade for Steam desktop and Steam Deck fans, with Game Recording now in Beta allowing you to easily clip your favourite moments with no external apps needed.
SteamOS 3.6.7 Preview for Steam Deck released, plus more Steam Beta Client updates for all
A couple of smaller updates for both Steam Deck and Desktop Linux to go over today, as Valve keep pushing towards the next stable update.
Warzone 2100 version 4.5.0 Beta enhances support for campaign mods, improved multiplayer
One of my favourite RTS games, Warzone 2100, just keeps on getting better thanks to it being open source. A major new Beta has been released that has some really great improvements for both singleplayer and online play.
SteamOS 3.6.5 Preview for Steam Deck out, plus two Steam Beta Client updates
Valve has now put up SteamOS 3.6.5 Preview for Steam Deck, plus a further two Beta releases of the Steam Client for all users.
SteamOS 3.6.4 Preview for Steam Deck has fixes for DualSense, DisplayPort and more
Valve has released SteamOS 3.6.4 Preview for Steam Deck, a small update to the upcoming release aimed at addressing a few problematic bugs.
OBS Studio 30.2 Beta 1 adds Linux support to the native NVENC encoder, other Linux improvements
OBS Studio 30.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing for anyone interested in recording and livestreaming video, and there's some nice Linux improvements coming.
You may want to avoid NVIDIA driver 550 if you're on a laptop
If you are a laptop user, you may want to avoid driver version 550 because there is a megathread on the NVIDIA forum where users are reporting that this version is making their distributions randomly crash.
NVIDIA release 550.90.07 stable and 555.52.04 Beta drivers for Linux
NVIDIA has release two fresh driver updates for Linux this week. There's a new stable driver, and an update to the Beta series.
SteamVR for Linux gets "experimental improvements to async support"
Exciting, even more improvements to SteamVR support are coming with the latest Beta release fixing up more issues.
Steam Beta adds Bluetooth device battery info for Steam Deck, various desktop PC updates
Another round of Steam Client Beta updates are here with Steam Deck and Desktop PC seeing lots of improvements and bug fixes, and it's especially nice for people using Bluetooth on Steam Deck.
- Crysis Remastered Trilogy gets a GOG release with the original Crysis now in the GOG Preservation Program
- WinBoat for containerised Windows apps on Linux adds custom install path, home folder sharing and more
- Fan-made Unreal remake Unreal Redux shows off a fancy new trailer
- Free Lives (Terra Nil, Broforce) released a demo for Side Effects that's Buckshot Roulette meets Big Pharma
- Wine 10.16 released with fast synchronization support using NTSync
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