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Proton Experimental fixes The Elder Scrolls Online launcher & improves Street Fighter 6
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.
Category: Steam
Valve tries to improve Big Picture Mode on Linux for NVIDIA GPUs
In the latest Steam Beta Client for desktop, Valve has made an attempt to improve the experience for NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux.
Mundfish remove graphics options from Atomic Heart on Steam Deck (updated)
This is just weird. Developer Mundfish seems to have intentionally removed all graphics options for Atomic Heart on Steam Deck. ARTICLE UPDATED.
Starship Troopers: Extermination is a little janky but so much fun
A little janky in places as expected from an Early Access game but Starship Troopers: Extermination is a lot of fun to play with friends and even complete strangers.
Have you picked up anything during Steam Sports Fest 2023?
Steam Sports Fest has officially begun (I'm a little late on that) and it runs until May 22nd, so you've got plenty of time to check it out.
Immersion Corporation sues Valve over Steam Deck and Valve Index haptics tech
Immersion Corporation have a history of taking on companies and winning, with Valve being the latest in the firing line over Immersion's patents.
Emberbane is an epic pixel art metroidvania inspired by Avatar: The Last Airbender
Any Avatar: The Last Airbender fans around? Hamlet Games are developing Emberbane, an action-packed epic metroidvania platformer inspired by Avatar.
Valheim has a performance boost patch in Beta
Valheim is a fantastic game but it could do with some optimisations, especially when you're building up a big castle and whatever else people come up with. Thankfully Iron Gate have put out some improvements.
Steam gets game trials with Dead Space being first, plus Valve dumps Google Analytics
Two bits of Steam news for you here, as Valve continue iterating on Steam features for players and developers.
Albion Online 'Knightfall' is here with new content and improved controls
Offering up plenty of new content for players to explore, the Knightfall update for Albion Online is here and it may be time to give it another look.
Roots of Pacha removed from Steam after fight with publisher Crytivo
Seems the indie team at Soda Den are having some issues with their publisher Crytivo, and their fight has caused Roots of Pacha to be removed from Steam for now.
Reus 2 announced letting you shape humanity again
Abbey Games are back and they're making a sequel to Reus, their god game from 2013 where you play as giant beings in control of shaping planets in Reus 2.
Mechabellum is an auto-battling Supreme Commander - I'm completely hooked
Mechabellum is a new Early Access release from Game River and Paradox Arc (the publishing arm of Paradox Interactive). It's an auto-battler like say Dota Underlords and Auto Chess, but with big mech units with battles like Supreme Commander.
World Turtles is a city-builder on the back of a space turtle out now
City-builders come in all shapes and sizes and now you can build on the back of a massive turtle flying through space in World Turtles.
Explosive exploration-mining game BLASTRONAUT gets a watery upgrade
BLASTRONAUT is a bit of an indie gem, a mining exploration game about blowing up the world beneath you to collect resources. The latest update is a bit wet.
Dead by Daylight gets Steam Deck Verified
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.
The Last of Us closer to playable on Steam Deck, but the Deck still has RAM problems
The Last of Us Part I from Naughty Dog has another big performance patch out, and the result on Steam Deck is quite surprising. But the Steam Deck still suffers from a major problem.
Open source evolution sim Thrive adds prototypes for going on land
Thrive is a free and open source in-development evolution sim, a bit like a more scientific version of EA's Spore and Thrive 0.6.2 expands the gameplay even more with some new prototypes.
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.
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.
- It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
- NVIDIA announce a few changes for GeForce NOW and new games for December
- Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews
- The huge Project Zomboid build 42 finally gets multiplayer just in time for the holidays
- Kitten Space Agency is the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program
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