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Valve officially launches the Steam News Hub
Giving you much more control over what news you see from games, applications and curators on Steam - Valve officially launches the Steam News Hub.
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Steam broke some huge all-time high records over the weekend
A sign that Steam as a release platform and store continues to grow, over the weekend two big concurrent user records were totally smashed.
Valve updates Steam with more Linux improvements, new game properties UI
A fresh Beta update for the Steam Client has rolled out and it seems Valve have begun modernising more parts of the UI, along with Linux fixes.
Valve upgrade the Steam browsing experience in the latest Steam Labs experiment
With so many thousands of games available on Steam, discovering what you want can be a serious pain in the arse and Valve are clearly aware of that with a new Steam Labs experiment.
Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
Two bits of major news to cover for the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer, with some exciting major changes coming in with updates.
Steam Play Proton 5.13-3 rolls out restoring controller hotplugging
Valve and CodeWeavers have rolled out another smaller update to the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer.
Smissmas 2020 is live for Team Fortress 2 with new maps
Along with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive seeing it's 10th operation with Operation Broken Fang, Valve's other popular first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 is doing a new Smissmas 2020 event.
Valve updates the Steam Linux Container Runtime for Proton 5.13, helps tools like MangoHud
With the Steam Play Proton 5.13 compatibility tool being a major upgrade, along with it now using the Steam Linux Container Runtime, it did come with some annoying issues that they're now trying to solve.
Valve funds open source developer to work on Zink, the OpenGL on Vulkan driver
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has announced that they're now being funded by Valve, so Blumenkrantz's work on the OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan with 'Zink' will continue.
Valve expand Steam Input to support more of the PS5 DualSense Controller
Valve sent over a press announcement to highlight that the Steam Input API has expanded its support of the brand new PS5 DualSense Controller.
Watch a rocket go into space right now for Valve's Gabe Newell to donate to charity
As we mentioned earlier this month, Valve president Gabe Newell teamed up with Rocket Lab and Weta Workshop to attach Half-Life gaming icon Gnome Chompski to a rocket.
Valve contractor working to add Direct3D 12 support to APITrace for VKD3D-Proton
Valve contractor Joshua Ashton, who originally created the Direct3D9 to Vulkan layer D9VK which was eventually merged with DXVK, is now working to help VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 to Vulkan.
Valve dev clarifies what some of their upcoming and recent Linux work is actually for
Valve are committed to Linux and Linux gaming with Steam, that much is currently clear. They're working with so many contractors on various things, and it seems not everything is as people think.
Collabora give an overview of their work with Valve at the Linux App Summit 2020
Interested in all the work the open source consulting firm Collabora are doing with Valve to help improve Linux gaming? We've got you covered.
Steam Play Proton 5.13-2 compatibility layer is out now with improved Direct3D 12 support
The Proton compatibility layer used with Steam Play on Linux has a brand new release out with Proton 5.13-2.
The next Steam Game Festival starts February 3, 2021 - devs have until early December
With the last Steam Game Festival ending in October, Valve have announced the dates for the next and developers don't have long to get their demos ready.
It's hard to believe but Counter-Strike has turned 20 and it's still going strong
20 years officially today, Counter-Strike 1.0 was officially released and it went on to change the way many of us played games online.
Eight years ago today, Steam for Linux went into Beta
Steam has now been available on Linux, at least in Beta, for eight years now and it's come a long way.
Valve rolls out Steam Playtest to devs, new Steam Beta up with Linux improvements
Valve announced last night that they're beginning the proper roll-out of Steam Playtest, a system that allows developers to bring in testers without messing with beta keys. Additionally, a new Steam Client Beta is up.
Collabora will be at the Linux App Summit talking about their work with Valve
There's another interesting talk coming up this month that you might want to check out, with open source consulting firm Collabora chatting about their work with Valve.
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