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A look over Steam's top releases from July, plus some usual quick thoughts on Linux support
Valve continue their blog posts highlighting games doing well on the platform, with a look at their top releases on Steam during July now available.
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Dota Underlords changes ranking again to be more about skill and less about time
While in Early Access, Dota Underlords is in a constant state of flux and Valve have again changed the ranking system.
The Group Stage for Dota 2's The International 2019 starts, as the prize pool continues breaking records
The International 2019 is heating up for Dota 2 as The Group Stage has now officially begun and the community-driven prize pool has hit a new record-breaking high.
Valve confirmed developers now need to contact them to change their release date
As an update to an article we posted recently about Valve seeming to need confirmation of release date changes on Steam, Valve have now confirmed this.
Steam Play Proton 4.11-2 is out, upgrading DXVK and FAudio
Valve along with CodeWeavers today issued a small and focused update to Proton, the software behind Steam Play.
Dota 2 is going through some big changes to matchmaking
Valve are attempting to address numerous complaints and issues involving the Dota 2 community and matchmaking system, with some experimental changes.
A look at how Steam Play is doing, based on the ProtonDB reports from July
Continuing our monthly look over the data dumps provided by ProtonDB, the unofficial reports website for tracking how well Steam Play games run, here's the July 2019 instalment.
Dota Underlords just had a massive update, changing the way you play
Valve are reacting quickly to feedback along with implementing some needed features for their auto-battler strategy game Dota Underlords. The latest major update is out now, with some big changes to the gameplay.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive adds new maps and a "Scrimmage" game mode
Valve have updated Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to introduce some new maps as well as mix up competitive play with a new "Scrimmage" game mode.
Valve add additional titles to the Steam Play Whitelist
After recently pushing out a pretty big update to Steam Play with Proton 4.11, Valve have now added some additional titles to their Whitelist.
Valve's new "ACO" Mesa shader compiler for AMD GPUs now has vertex shader support
For our third bit of Valve news today, they also recently announced that their Mesa shader compiler "ACO" had a bit of an upgrade recently as well.
Steam Play Proton 4.11 released, a pretty huge release pulling in D9VK and a replacement for esync
Valve have announced the release of Steam Play Proton 4.11, this is a pretty exciting one and it's pretty huge overall.
Dota Underlords is to split up matchmaking with Casual and Ranked options
The Dota Underlords team at Valve have put out their plans for the next update which is focusing on the matchmaking.
A look over Steam's top releases for June 2019, plus a look at the top games by player count
Just like I did for May's releases, here's a look over the Valve blog post highlighting some of their top games released in June.
Move over Fortnite, The International 2019 for Dota 2 has surpassed $30 million
Thanks to everyone buying the current Dota 2 Battle Pass, the prize pool for The International 2019 tournament has now officially surpassed $30 million.
Think you're good at CS:GO Danger Zone? It now has Skill Groups for you to show off
Valve continue to do smaller tweaks to the Danger Zone Battle Royale mode in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, with it now having Skill Groups.
Dota Underlords has another update out, this one changes the game quite a lot
Valve continue to tweak Dota Underlords in the hopes of keeping players happy, this mid-Season gameplay update flips quite a few things on their head.
Looks like Valve are developing another new game, something to do with "Citadel"
Warm up that cup of speculation, as it appears Valve are working on another game that seems to be going by the name of Citadel (likely a code name).
Valve releases a new update to the Steam Client, nice Linux fixes made it in again
Valve have released a new stable version of the Steam Client today to add new features, improve existing features and catch some pesky bugs flying around.
Dota Underlords gains a prototype Battle Pass in the latest Early Access update
Valve continue to push out some more interesting updates to their auto-battler Dota Underlords, with it now having the first version of their prototype Battle Pass.
- Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%
- Portal: Revolution drops Native Linux support to focus on Proton
- ZOOM Platform also had payment processor issues, say they "have no plans to remove any titles"
- NVIDIA are working on a "general optimization" for VKD3D / DirectX12 games on Linux
- Bottles app for running Windows apps / games on Linux gets NGI Zero Commons funding
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