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Steam Next Fest - February 2025 is live with tons of demos

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has launched Steam Next Fest, another good opportunity for you to jump in and test some upcoming games that runs through until March 3rd.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.22 brings a fix for pre-compiled shader downloads

By Liam Dawe,
Valve just released a tiny SteamOS 3.6.22 "Volcanic Activity" Beta for Steam Deck, which includes a fix for a rather annoying issue.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Surprisingly, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has been given the Steam Deck Verified checkmark by Valve, after the latest patch was released with more updates planned.

There's been a flood in the Wandering Waters update for Dota 2

By Liam Dawe,
While Valve continue building up their next MOBA with Deadlock, their current Dota 2 is still as popular as ever and the Wandering Waters update for Dota 2 sounds pretty awesome.

Proton Experimental adds fixes for Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, The Finals and more

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a fresh update for Proton Experimental today pulling in some more fixes for various Windows games to run on Linux / Steam Deck.

Valve use a little code from Godot for Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Team Fortress 2

By Liam Dawe,
This is the beauty of open source in action - everyone can benefit. Valve are no stranger to open source, and as it turns out they're using a little bit of code from Godot Engine now too.

Team Fortress 2 major update released and source available for modders via the Source SDK

By Liam Dawe,
It wasn't just Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source that received big updates today, as Valve also published a new update for Team Fortress 2 along with updating the Source SDK to include TF2!

Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source get major updates with 64bit support

By Liam Dawe,
A nice surprise for some classic Valve games today with multiple titles like Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source getting major updates.

Steam Deck update gets a small battery life boost with the Frame Limiter

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a new Steam Deck Beta Client update for February 14th, showing the love to battery life with a little extra juice.

Here's all the Steam Sales and Fests for 2025

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have now revealed the full list of Steam Sales and Festivals that will be happening throughout 2025. So time to fill up that wishlist, mark your calendar and prepare your wallet.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.21 released fixing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle eyes and security bugs

By Liam Dawe,
After being in Beta since December 2024, Valve have now released SteamOS 3.6.21 as stable for Steam Deck bringing in some bug and security fixes.

Steam Deck Verified highlights for February 2025 - come find your next game

By Liam Dawe,
It's time to highlight some games you might have missed! Here's a run over what's been through Valve's Steam Deck Verified with some of my personal picks here for February.

Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
Valve have updated the developer guidelines for releasing a game on Steam, making it clear that the scourge of mobile gaming advertising-based business models are not going to work on Steam.

Portal 2 gets a compatibility update for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Valve recently updated Left 4 Dead 2 with a compatibility fix for Linux, and it seems they've done the same for their popular puzzle game Portal 2.

Left 4 Dead 2 gets a compatibility update for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
A recent update to glibc in version 2.41 appears to have been causing issues with Left 4 Dead 2, which Valve have solved in a fresh update.

New Steam Beta stops forcing HDR on external display for Steam Deck OLED plus Steam Input fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released an updated Steam Beta for Steam Deck and Desktop. Here's all the changes you need to know.

Valve now warns on Steam pages if an Early Access game hasn't been updated in a long time

By Liam Dawe,
Even though Early Access can be an incredible thing to allow developers to build up their game with the community, and pull in some early funds, it can also go very wrong. And now Valve are making it a bit clearer for you if a game hasn't been updated.

The latest Valve Steam Console rumour with AMD RDNA4 can be safely ignored - here's why

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
Thanks to posts on social media and YouTuber videos, which now other news sites have picked up, we're seeing fresh rumours about a new Steam Machine / Steam Console.

Valve fixes up The Finals and No Man's Sky VR with Proton Experimental

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh Proton Experimental update from Valve has landed fixing up issues with two games for Linux / Steam Deck so here's what's new.

Steam Survey for January 2025 shows Linux still above 2%

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for January 2025, showing both Linux and macOS having a dip with a rise of Windows 10.
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