After the recent patches, Team Fortress 2 hit an all-time high
It's been a long road for Valve fighting against bots in Team Fortress 2 but it looks like the community has been overall quite happy with the latest changes.
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A busy weekend ahead perhaps? Steam Play Proton 6.3-5 is out now
Valve announced the latest version of the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer is out now with 6.3-5. Update - 26/06/21: Proton Experimental also saw an update.
The Steam Summer Sale 2021 is now live with thousands of savings and a mini-game
Have you been penny-pinching ready for the Steam Summer Sale 2021? Well it's live now so you can open those wallets up and build up another backlog of games.
Dota 2 gets AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, new event and Battle Pass
Valve have updated Dota 2 with a major new release featuring not only a brand new Battle Pass and a big new event, they also added in AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution.
Valve releases a Team Fortress 2 update that helps somewhat against bots
It seems Valve has not forgotten Team Fortress 2 exists and a fresh update is out now, which pulls in some new security measures and the Summer 2021 Cosmetic Case.
TI10: The International for Dota 2 may not happen in Sweden now as it's not elite enough
The saga continues for the major upcoming Dota 2 tournament TI10: The International, with it now switching countries due to Sweden not accepting it.
Looks like a possible Valve Index 2 will make their VR kit go wireless
Thanks to a new patent that went public on June 17, we can see a little more behind the scenes work on what Valve has planned for their next VR kit with what could be a Valve Index 2.
Steam Play Proton 6.3-5 has a first Release Candidate out with lots of changes
Time for a weekend of testing as the next version of Steam Play Proton is closing in with Proton 6.3-5 having a first Release Candidate now available.
Left 4 Dead 2 updated with Vulkan support thanks to DXVK
We've only just seen a new release of the Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK, and now it's powering Left 4 Dead 2 with a fresh free upgrade out now.
What we want to see from the possible SteamPal handheld from Valve
You've all seen the rumours by now, and apparent confirmation from Ars that Valve has been working on the SteamPal, a Linux powered handheld that could be released this year. Here's a short list of what we want from it.
Valve need more testing of the latest Proton Experimental for input latency improvements
Recently we highlighted another upgrade of Proton Experimental, the special testing area of Steam Play Proton that pulls in new and advanced features - well it needs a lot more testing.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets some big changes for non-Prime accounts
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is going through some changes, as Valve attempt to deal with the bad actors now it's free to play with big changes to non-Prime accounts.
Proton Experimental prepares for NVIDIA DLSS, optional NVAPI and more game fixes
Valve and CodeWeavers have released another fresh Proton Experimental build for testing upcoming features of the Proton compatibility layer for Linux gaming with Steam Play.
Judge upholds $4M damages in the patent case against Valve for the Steam Controller
Back in February 2021 we wrote an article about how Ironburg Inventions (a subsidiary of Corsair Gaming) were suing Valve for the Steam Controller and Valve has now firmly lost the case.
Valve looks to be overhauling Steam Library folders to finally make them more useful
We're seeing even more leaks out of a recent Steam Beta update from Valve that not only hinted at the SteamPal console, and the new Downloads page but also a big overhaul to the Library manager.
Looks like Steam is getting a brand new Downloads page
Now that the dust has settled on the new Steam Library design, along with various other UI overhauls like the Properties page for games (and the recent SteamPal console leaks) - Valve will be fixing up the Steam Downloads page now too.
Hints appear of Valve making a handheld Steam "SteamPal" Neptune console
Well well, perhaps we finally know what the end game is here for the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer and a lot of the other work Valve has been doing for Linux with a possible handheld Steam console. UPDATED.
Looks like Trust Factor in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Linux is fixed for Mesa
For quite some time now, there's been a few troubles for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Linux with players Trust Factor being severely reduced. Now though, it looks to be finally solved.
Prepare for bigger Portal 2 modded levels with a new update removing limits
Valve have again updated the incredible first-person puzzler Portal 2, this time the update is quite small (comparatively to the Vulkan update) but still mighty.
A fresh Steam client goes out with Linux improvements, Steam Input tweaks and more
Valve has bundled together a bunch of upgrades from recent Beta versions of the Steam client and push out a new stable release of Steam for everyone.
- SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S
- Retro dungeon crawler Brany Skeldalu gets a Linux version and source code re-release
- SteamOS 3.7.9 Beta has fixes for ROG Ally, Legion Go S, booting on Strix Point
- NVIDIA stable driver 575.57.08 released for Linux
- CRSED: Cuisine Royale devs confirm end of Linux / Steam Deck support
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