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Supply chain issues are making the Steam Deck OLED go out of stock


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Valve have put up a notice in the USA and Canada, where multiple models of the Steam Deck OLED have now gone completely out of stock.

Steam Beta improves controller support for 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless, 8BitDo Pro 2 and more


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This is great. Valve released a new Beta for Desktop and Steam Deck that brings Steam Input improvements for various controllers.

Steam Next Fest - June 2025 edition is live with new demos


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A celebration of upcoming games big and small and everything in between. Steam Next Fest for June 2025 is now live.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for Fallout 3, Skyrim Special Edition, The Witcher 3, Intel CPUs and more


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Valve have released a fresh June 5th update for Proton Experimental, their testing-ground for running Windows games on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck.

Steam Deck, SteamOS will now stop bugging you to install updates multiple times


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Valve released a fresh Steam update for Steam Deck / SteamOS and additionally a Beta update too, both of which solve some annoyances.

Linux user share hits a multi-year high on Steam for May 2025


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The Linux user share on Steam has been slowly but steadily trending upwards, with May 2025 showing the highest point in years.

Here's the most played Steam Deck games for May 2025


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We've had some more big releases recently, so here's your up to date look at what games have been the most popular on Steam Deck for May 2025.

Valve give Steam developer and publisher pages a little extra visibility


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Valve have done a couple of small but useful tweaks to developer and publisher homepages, resulting in hopefully a little more visibility.

SteamOS 3.7.9 Beta has fixes for ROG Ally, Legion Go S, booting on Strix Point


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Valve continue hammering away at the code for SteamOS to get it working nicely on more devices and hardware, with SteamOS 3.7.9 Beta bringing more fixes.

Zombies vs Vampires Fest is live on Steam - some recommendations


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Valve launched the Zombies vs Vampires Fest on Steam. There's a number of nice games discounts, so here's some suggestions for Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck.

SteamOS Manager for BIOS updates, TDP and GPU clock controls now open source


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On Valve's official public GitLab, they've recently put up SteamOS Manager under the open source MIT license following the SteamOS 3.7 release for more devices.

Proton Experimental update enables gamepad input for all game launchers on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck


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Valve released a brand new and exciting update to Proton Experimental for Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck gamers. This brings some new fixes, as well as an interesting change for their Xalia integration.

Steam Deck gets a big upgrade with SteamOS 3.7 and you can now install it on other AMD handhelds


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Valve just released SteamOS 3.7 to the stable channel, bringing a huge amount of improvements to the Steam Deck. This also brings official support for the Lenovo Legion Go S, as well as Valve now officially giving you the option to load SteamOS onto other AMD powered handhelds.

SteamOS 3.7.7 Beta brings a Battery Charge Limit option and improved Lenovo Legion Go S support


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Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.7 Beta "Sunny & Gizmo" with the noted changes including the new Battery Charge Limit option along with more work for the Lenovo Legion Go S.

Latest Steam update fixes Steam Deck controller issues, plus numerous bugfixes for Desktop Steam


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Valve have released the latest stable Steam Client update for all platforms bringing numerous important bug fixes to Steam Deck and Desktop Steam.

Upcoming Steam update should fix lag spikes on Linux when the Steam Overlay is disabled


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For quite some time now Linux gamers have been reporting issues with lag spikes in various games on Steam when the Steam Overlay is disabled. It seems Valve may have finally found the cause and a fix is hopefully on the way.

Steam Deck / SteamOS hits 19,000 games rated Verified and Playable


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Good news for players on Steam Deck and SteamOS, as the Steam Deck Verified system just hit 19,000 games that are rated either Verified or Playable.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for The First Berserker: Khazan, THE FINALS, The Sims 2, Alpha Protocol and more


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Valve updated Proton Experimental, the testing area for the latest fixes to their Windows compatibility layer to run more games on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. Here's all the changes for the May 16th update.

Valve refresh Steam's monthly top-releases charts, going all the way back to the release of Half-Life 2


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The crazy coders at Valve had been making the monthly top lists manually this whole time, but no more. They've given their monthly top-releases charts a fresh makeover and you can scroll all the way back to the release of Half-Life 2.

Here's a statement from Valve on the reported Steam data breach


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There's been reports of a Steam data breach recently, and instead of jumping the gun I reached out to Valve first to see what was going on. Here's a statement from Valve.
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