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Half-Life: Alyx now available on Linux with Vulkan
Just like Valve said to us they would do so, Half-Life: Alyx is now available on Linux using the Vulkan graphics API.
Category: Valve
Play Next is live on Steam to remind you of all your unplayed games
After a short Beta period, the Play Next feature is now live on Steam to remind you of your vast game library you've not touched.
Team Fortress 2 gets a nice tribute to Rick May, plus a few minor fixes
Rick May, voice of The Soldier in Team Fortress 2 died earlier this year and now Valve has added a small dedication to May in Team Fortress 2.
Steam Play Proton 5.0-7 is officially out - Street Fighter V and more now playable on Linux
Valve and CodeWeavers have released the latest version of the Proton compatibility layer for Steam Play today.
Steam Play Proton 5.0-7 up for testing with a Release Candidate - Street Fighter V playable
Valve and CodeWeavers continuing the long task of improving the Proton compatibility layer (based on Wine) for Steam Play, and today a new Release Candidate went up for some testing.
It appears that Valve are preparing Half-Life: Alyx for Linux
Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's return to the Half-Life franchise in VR-only form released for Windows last month and it appears they're now preparing a Linux version.
Old source code for Valve games CS:GO and TF2 ended up leaked online
Seems the steampipes sprung a bit of a leak recently, as it's been confirmed that both Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 had their source code put up online.
Valve details more changes for Artifact 2.0, with expanded single-player content coming
Valve continue to revamp Artifact behind the scenes for the upcoming re-release with Artifact 2.0 and they've discussed more changes that will come for their Dota themed card game.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has now beaten the all-time player record of Dota 2
Four years ago, Valve's free to play MOBA Dota 2 hit 1,295,114 concurrent players and today it's finally been beaten by Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
Steam Play Proton 5.0-6 is out to help DOOM Eternal, Rockstar Launcher and more on Linux
After a short Beta period to help find issues, today Valve / CodeWeavers have release the latest version of Steam Play Proton.
Valve detail more changes planned for Artifact 2.0
Artifact is coming back, and this time Valve are being more chatty about their plans for it after it died a quick death originally. So far, their plan sounds quite good.
Valve add a Prestige option to the Dota Underlords 'City Crawl' mode to increase the challenge
Dota Underlords, the curious blend of Dota lore and characters in an auto-battling strategy game has a brand new update out as it continues to see a healthy amount of players since release.
A newly public patent (filed in 2018) from Valve shows a Steam Controller with attachments
We have no idea if Valve will ever do a proper second revision of the Steam Controller, we've seen hints before and now we have more info on what it could have been.
Steam and CS:GO just keep knocking down records as Steam hits over 24 million concurrent users
There seems to be no stopping Steam right now, Valve are on a roll with repeatedly breaking their own user records.
Valve's revamp of Artifact with a 2.0 Beta will start going out to players sometime soon
Valve recently announced to expect news for their card game Artifact sometime soon, and now they're saying an Artifact 2.0 Beta will start trickling out to players.
Valve makes auto-update adjustments to help with managing Steam's bandwidth use
After multiple streaming services announced they were dropping their quality for a while, to help internet providers cope with so many more at home, Valve have started speaking about their own ways to manage bandwidth too.
Steam and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive once again smash user records
What seems to be a regular occurrence now during the COVID-19 outbreak, both Steam and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive have yet again broken their own concurrent user records.
Seems Valve do intend to go back to SteamOS at some point
SteamOS, the Valve-made Linux distribution that was originally for the failed Steam Machine initiative has gradually vanished into the sidelines but it seems it won't be forever.
Steam Play Proton 5.0-5 is out with updated OpenVR, Vulkan and fixes
Valve published Proton 5.0-5 for Steam Play which includes some helpful additions and bug fixes, should help you play those Windows-only games while quarantined.
Valve's card game Artifact is still being worked on for a big revamp
Artifact, the failed card game from Valve, released in November 2018 and within the space of only two months had lost almost the entire player-base. Valve don't appear to have given up, quite the opposite.