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Incredible cheap treats in the Steam Summer Sale 2025 under £3
9 Jul 2025 at 12:58 pm UTC Likes: 1

Jelly Car Worlds is loads of fun.

A selection of upcoming games I'm excited to see release
9 Jul 2025 at 10:36 am UTC Likes: 1

Over to you in the comments — what are some picks you're personally excited about?
Adventures of a Cat in Space is a game we're planning on picking up at release and all playing together as a family.

Steam Hardware & Software Survey for June 2025 is out - here's the latest for Linux and SteamOS
3 Jul 2025 at 10:06 am UTC Likes: 4

If you remove the local peaks and subtract the SteamOS values, then you get that approximately 1.6% are Linux desktop users. Which may not sound like a lot, but it's starting to approach MacOS level now and on the whole user base of Steam this is still a lot of people.
Desktop Linux with the Deck excluded has been at the same level as Mac for a couple of months already.

https://i.ibb.co/hRNbFjGW/Steam-Deck.png [External Link]

Steam Hardware & Software Survey for June 2025 is out - here's the latest for Linux and SteamOS
3 Jul 2025 at 10:02 am UTC Likes: 7

Fun fact: I got the survey twice yesterday. First on my laptop, then on my desktop. I suppose Linux market share gonna blow up in July...
It's a hardware survey, not a user survey. Two machines both being sampled is intended behaviour, regardless of who's using them.

Steam Hardware & Software Survey for June 2025 is out - here's the latest for Linux and SteamOS
3 Jul 2025 at 9:23 am UTC Likes: 2

Nearly 6% of English-using Steam users is pretty good. It would be nice to make inroads with gamers in China, too, but that's an uphill struggle.

Nexus Mods to get Age Verification in UK / EU for adult content, plus a new cross-platform app upgrade
2 Jul 2025 at 3:56 pm UTC Likes: 3

I hope I am wrong, but a change in ownership of a popular platform never ended well as far as I can tell/remember.
PayPal is doing better than it would have under Thiel and Musk. Minecraft is doing better than it would have under Notch.

Mecha BREAK is out now on Steam - works on Steam Deck but blocks Desktop Linux
2 Jul 2025 at 10:28 am UTC Likes: 3

Valve are probably going to have to do better testing since this
SteamOS:
This game runs successfully on SteamOS
isn't really true. Only Deck. And potentially only LCD Deck if it's like the others that use this anti-cheat.

NVIDIA confirm upcoming driver will be the last for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta
1 Jul 2025 at 6:14 pm UTC Likes: 2

Does the 1650 series not count as Pascal?
When Turing came out there was market demand for chips on the new architecture but without ray tracing capability so the price could be lower; that's the 1600 series.

NVIDIA confirm upcoming driver will be the last for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta
1 Jul 2025 at 5:24 pm UTC Likes: 3

They still do get the next driver. The next driver series. So I think it sounds more dangerous than it is at the moment.
And the 580 branch will be carried in distro repositories for a very long time, just like all the other legacy branches.

Here are the most played games on Steam Deck for June 2025
1 Jul 2025 at 3:50 pm UTC

Does streaming from my main PC count?
It does as far as I'm concerned, but doesn't for Steam's year-end stats.