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A guide to Steam Play Proton, Valve's tech for playing Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Looking to test the waters with Linux gaming and don't want to lose access to your favourite Windows games? Need to know how games actually run on Steam Deck? Here's a simple no-nonsense guide to actually using Steam Play Proton.

Valve has launched "Steam Labs", a place where Valve will show off new experiments

By Liam Dawe,
Valve emailed in today to let us know about the new Steam Labs, a dedicated section on Steam for Valve to show off some experiments they're doing and for you to test and break them.

SteamVR has another beta up, with plenty of Linux fixes and other improvements

By Liam Dawe,
With the Valve Index now out, Valve continue to make quick improvements to SteamVR with the latest Beta now available.

Dota Underlords now has scoreboards and more improvements plus a "Proto-Battle Pass" next week

By Liam Dawe,
Valve continue to move at a rapid pace to improve their strategy game Dota Underlords, with the most recent patch adding in some new features that were needed.

Valve may be working on a new version of the Steam Controller

By Liam Dawe,
Speculation time: As someone who makes heavy use of their Steam Controller, I will admit that the possibility of a proper second generation has me quite excited.

Valve are asking for help testing "ACO", a new Mesa shader compiler for AMD graphics

By Liam Dawe,
Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais mentioned on Twitter, about a new Mesa shader compiler for AMD graphics named "ACO" and they're calling for testers.

Valve have released the CAD files for the Index VR system, enabling some fun modding

By Liam Dawe,
Just like Valve did with the Steam Controller, they've gone and released the CAD files for the Index VR system under a Creative Commons license.

Dota 2's prize pool for The International 2019 has surpassed $25 million, breaking previous records

By Liam Dawe,
The International 2019 tournament that starts in August just hit a recording-breaking prize pool sum.

A look over the ProtonDB reports for June 2019, over 5.5K games reported to work with Steam Play

By Liam Dawe,
ProtonDB, the unofficial website that gathers reports of how games run with Steam Play on Linux has another data-dump available, so here's another monthly run-down of the data for June 2019.

You might be hearing voices in the latest Dota Underlords update and it continues to capture my interest

By Liam Dawe,
With the latest update to Dota Underlords now out, Valve continue moving quickly to make it a highly polished gameplay experience.

With the Valve Index about to launch and be delivered, Valve held a little private launch party with speeches

By Liam Dawe,
Valve's first in-house virtual reality hardware should be dropping at your door soon, if you were one of the lucky ones to order it quickly in the first batch. Additionally, Gabe Newell and others held speeches at a little launch party.

Valve release an official statement about the future of Linux support, they "remain committed" to Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe,
After the recent upset caused by Canonical's plan to drop 32bit support in Ubuntu, then to turn around and change their plan due to the uproar caused by it, Valve now have a full statement out about their future support of Linux gaming.

Dota Underlords continues seeing polish as it passes 200K players online

By Liam Dawe,
Seems like Valve really are onto something here, as Dota Underlords recently managed to pass 200K players online at the same time and another update is out now.

Valve looking to drop support for Ubuntu 19.10 and up due to Canonical's 32bit decision (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Things are starting to get messy, after Canonical announced the end of 32bit support from Ubuntu 19.10 onwards, Valve have now responded.

Dota Underlords from Valve is now in open beta for Linux, mobile too

By Liam Dawe,
Valve are doing some really impressive work with Dota Underlords, their new strategy game that everyone can now try.

Valve are doing a small celebration for 20 years of Counter-Strike

By Liam Dawe,
Has it really been 20 years? Madness. Counter-Strike started off life as a Half-Life mod in 1999 and the series is still going strong.

Valve have given out some more details on the Index VR HMD with a "Deep Dive" about the Field of View

By Liam Dawe,
As the first in a series of posts giving out more detail on what Valve wanted to achieve with the Valve Index, a new "Deep Dive" post is up starting with information about the Field of View.

Dota Underlords from Valve is already quite addictive and they're improving it quickly

By Liam Dawe,
With Dota Underlords available for testing, I've now taken a look at it (thanks Scaine!) and so far I've been quite impressed.

Valve have officially announced Dota Underlords, coming to Linux soon with an open Beta in around a week

By Liam Dawe,
A lot sooner than expected, Valve have revealed Dota Underlords, their stand-alone version of Dota 2 Auto Chess.

Steam to get a public beta for the Library overhaul in "weeks"

By Liam Dawe,
Valve announced on Steam today, that the Steam Library overhaul is to get a public beta and it's only "weeks" away.
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