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JSAUX teasing a clear Back Plate for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
JSAUX, maker of many Steam Deck Docking Stations, might be teasing a clear Back Plate they're designing for the Steam Deck.

Microsoft upgraded Xbox Cloud Gaming for Linux and ChromeOS (so Steam Deck too!)

By Liam Dawe,
On the community Reddit for Xbox Cloud Gaming, an Xbox employee put up a small announcement about an upgraded experience for Linux and ChromeOS game streaming.

Loading bigger libraries should be faster in the new Steam Deck Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Available in the Beta and Preview channels, Valve has released a new Steam Deck Client Update with a few useful little fixes.

Fun Steam Deck Verified & Playable games from October 2022

By Liam Dawe,
Recently the Steam Deck hit over 6,000 games marked as Playable and Verified together, so I took a little look at some of the entries across October to point out some fun picks.

PixelJunk Scrappers Deluxe is Steam Deck Verified before release with a demo

By Liam Dawe,
PixelJunk Scrappers Deluxe is the next Steam release coming from Q-Games and they've managed to get it Steam Deck Verified ahead of release.

Void Scrappers blends Vampire Survivors mechanics with a space shoot 'em up

By Liam Dawe,
Void Scrappers recently released with Native Linux support and it is Steam Deck Verified. A pretty great game if you love the mechanics of Vampire Survivors but want something different.

Steam Deck pushed Linux to the highest share on Steam in years

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh month, which means a new Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out. Looking over the October 2022 data, it appears we've hit a fresh high point.

Steam Beta update tweaks the new Big Picture Mode from Steam Deck for desktop

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has today released a new Steam Client Beta, which amongst other things tweaks the new Big Picture Mode that is also in a special Beta that was taken from the Steam Deck.

Competitive tactics game Duelyst is being revived with Duelyst II

By Liam Dawe,
Love competitive games? How about when they're free to play? Dream Sloth Games are reviving Duelyst as Duelyst II, with approval from Counterplay Games.

These were the most popular Steam Deck games for October 2022

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has revealed two fresh lists of popular games for the Steam Deck through October, sorted by both daily average player count and time played.

Open source kart racer SuperTuxKart 1.4 is out now with Vulkan in Beta

By Liam Dawe,
The free and open source kart racing game, SuperTuxKart, has released a major new version with lots of fresh goodies to play with.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 7.20 is out

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine hackers have put out a new development build of the Windows compatibility layer in Wine 7.20.

Heroic Games Launcher 2.5 Beta adds Download Manager, external game / launcher installs

By Liam Dawe,
The Heroic Games Launcher is growing with the 2.5.0 Beta version out now, putting it in competition with the likes of Lutris and Bottles a little more with the new features.

Elon Musk completes Twitter takeover, Nextcloud to ship their own social network app

By Liam Dawe,
Just a bit of big industry news to cover today, as an update to the previous article talking about Elon Musk and Twitter — as the sale has completed. Plus a reminder on Mastodon and Nextcloud doing some fun social stuff too.

Decky Loader for Steam Deck (plugin loader) gets fixed up for newer SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
It seems each time Valve do a big update to the Steam Deck with SteamOS, it ends up breaking the Decky Loader plugin system but a fresh update is out now fixing it again.

Better Linux support for OneXPlayer coming, likely for SteamOS like Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
We already know that OneXPlayer have it in their plans to put SteamOS on their devices, and perhaps this Linux kernel work is a step towards it.

Classic Unreal Tournament lives on with a new OldUnreal upgrade, 64bit now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Unreal Tournament 99 is one of the all-time great first-person shooters, and it is being kept alive by the OldUnreal team and contributors with a fresh release out now.

Great smaller and casual games for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
While the Steam Deck is a great device for the bigger lot (AAA / AA), what about some quality choices for smaller and more casual experiences? Here's my current favourites, good for a cosy Sunday afternoon.

Sackboy: A Big Adventure is another Sony port working well on Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Sony and Sumo Digital recently put out another port, this time it's Sackboy: A Big Adventure an offshoot of the LittleBigPlanet series.

VRR (external screens) and Allow Tearing options coming to Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Seems that both options for Variable Refresh Rate and Allow Tearing are coming to the Steam Deck in a future update, here's what that means.
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