Steam Deck news round-up for early May 2023
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.
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GE-Proton 8-2 is out now fixing Shatterline, various Daedalic games and more
GE-Proton 8-2 is the latest release of the community-made version of Proton, the translation layer from Valve for Steam Deck and Linux desktop.
Nreal Air and Steam Deck together - quite mind-blowing
Recently I was sent over a package with the Nreal Air, so I've spent a fair bit of time testing out these AR glasses with the Steam Deck to see what all the fuss is about.
Steam will now scale better with KDE and GNOME
In the latest Beta release for Steam from May 5th, Valve finally did some more work on scaling the UI of the Steam Client.
Dead by Daylight now works on Linux desktop and Steam Deck
Some potentially great news for Dead by Daylight fans, as it seems Behaviour Interactive have finally made the switch with their anti-cheat to allow Steam Deck and Linux desktop players in.
Soul Survivors is a refreshing skill-based time-survival Vampire Survivor-like
Continuing my quest to have no free time ever, I have been checking out Soul Survivors that's now available in Early Access. It may be yet another Vampire Survivor-like but that's not a bad thing at all.
Steam Deck hits over 9,000 games rated Verified and Playable
Another juicy milestone for Valve with the Steam Deck, as it now has over 9,000 games rated as either Verified or Playable.
Proton 8.0-2 out for Linux / Steam Deck fixing the EA app (yes, again)
Valve has upgraded the newer Proton 8 that only launched for Linux and Steam Deck recently, with a bunch of bug fixes.
Another Steam and Steam Deck Beta brings fixes and Steam Input improvements
After the huge update recently that overhauled the Steam Overlay, Valve has put up another Steam and Steam Deck Beta to fix up lingering issues and upgrade Steam Input.
Valve reveals the top Steam Deck games for April 2023
It's May already huh? Another month is over and so Valve has detailed what people have been playing the most on Steam Deck.
STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor had a very rough launch
Here we go again! Just like The Last of Us Part I (and so many other games recently), another major game released too early. STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor is a hot mess.
Huge Steam Beta upgrade with new overlay, screenshot manager & more
Wow. Valve sure love to just drop awesome stuff out of nowhere don't they? A brand new Beta update is now live for Steam with some massive improvements. There's also a fresh Steam Deck Beta too!
The Last of Us gets more optimizations and another Steam Deck fix
Slowly but it's happening, The Last of Us is getting fixed up after the poor launch and it's getting a little closer to being playable on Steam Deck now too.
Street Fighter 6 on Steam Deck and Linux tested, Valve sets it to Proton Experimental
Street Fighter 6 is coming up for release in June and there's a demo now available to try out on Steam, which Valve has now set to use Proton Experimental.
Proton Experimental upgraded for April 26th brings fixes and new game support
Here we go, now that Proton 8 is out and Proton Experimental has been rebased on top of Proton 8, there's more fixes and improvements coming in for Steam Deck and Linux desktop gamers.
Steam Deck gets a Preview update with STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor improvements
STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor is releasing on April 28th, so Valve has released an updated graphics driver in the Preview update branch for Steam Deck.
Grounded 1.2 out now and Steam Deck Verified but desktop Linux needs a small fix
The survival game Grounded from Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios has now released version 1.2 and it got bumped up to Verified on Steam Deck.
Using a Steam Deck to control a Ukrainian automatic turret, now I've seen it all
People have used their Steam Deck to do all sorts of crazy things but this latest is nuts. It seems people in Ukraine are using it to help work an automatic turret.
Valve moves ELDEN RING back to Proton 7 as it has issues with newer Proton
Certain games on Steam that you play across either Linux desktop or Steam Deck get a specific version of Proton set by Valve, and at times they don't quite work right like ELDEN RING.
Fanatical team up with JSAUX again and you can win a Steam Deck
Feeling lucky? Fanatical and accessory brand JSAUX have teamed up for a bundle of games, and with it a chance to win a Steam Deck and a whole lot of extras.
- Developer of PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation threatens "removing Linux support entirely" but not yet
- Lossless Scaling Frame Generation for Linux hits 1.0 with a new UI making it easier than ever
- Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%
- Battlefield 6 will be a unplayable on Linux systems due to the anti-cheat
- Valve finally upgraded the Steam trailer video player, re-encoding around 400,000 videos
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