Category: Valve

Valve released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey results for April 2025, so here's your usual round-up of where things stand right now.

Now that Proton 10 had a Beta release to bring improved game compatibility to Linux Desktop and Steam Deck, Valve have also updated their testing ground with Proton Experimental seeing an update to be based on Proton 10 plus extra fixes.

Here we go! Proton 10 is the next major stable version of Proton and a first Beta is now available for testing to improve game compatibility on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.

Valve released another small stable Steam update for Desktop and Steam Deck, bringing in some pretty essential fixes for both platforms.

Valve released a small stable update to the Steam Client for Desktop and Steam Deck, along with another one-fix Beta update for Steam Deck.

Finally. Something many have been asking for Valve to do for a long time now, and something I've pointed out multiple times across various articles - Steam pages will soon list what accessibility features games support on store pages.

SteamOS 3.7.4 Preview is out now and it contains only a few bug fixes, but one sounds pretty darn important to give non-Steam Deck users a good experience.

Valve released a small update to the Steam Beta Client for Desktop and Steam Deck, containing two fixes that have been confusing players.

After Valve announced in January that a public beta of Steam Deck's SteamOS is coming for more handhelds, the initial SteamOS 3.7 Preview added the start of it and now the latest SteamOS 3.7.3 Preview brings more improvements for other handhelds.

Valve released a great sounding new update to Proton Experimental on April 4th, to help get more Windows games running correctly on Linux platforms like Steam Deck.

Valve released and then rereleased a fresh stable update to the Steam Client for Desktop and Steam Deck with a whole bunch of fixes and improvements.

Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for March 2025, and as expected with the Simplified Chinese language dropping the Linux stats have shot back up.

Valve have released the latest stable SteamOS update for Steam Deck. SteamOS 3.6.24 is here with a few fixes and improvements, while work continues on the huge SteamOS 3.7 update.

Valve's Steam Deck rating system is generally quite correct, but there are clearly some times when it isn't. Thankfully, Valve do go back over various games to re-test them and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has been hit with a downgraded rating.

With the Linux kernel 6.14 out now, I noted in my quick-look overview about a bug that was fixed for the Steam Deck OLED model. Collabora have given a little more info on their work for this issue and how it was a challenge.

Valve released a fresh Steam Beta Client update for March 27th bringing with it a few fixes, plus an interesting seeming improvement for how they calculate download progress and timing.

If you look at nearly all reviews of handheld gaming PCs with Windows, the major problem is Windows itself. HP are now interested in jumping in with SteamOS!

Another chance to grab some discounts! Valve have launched a festival for City Builder & Colony Sims to celebrate everything that might remotely resemble you building a community and keeping people alive.

Valve released another smaller update for Proton Experimental, the constantly changing compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux platforms like the Steam Deck with SteamOS.

While Valve continue working towards the public SteamOS 3 release for more devices, and we've seen them note work towards that in the initial SteamOS 3.7 Preview, they continue rolling out more bug fixes for the Steam Deck.