After a long wait, Valve has finally caught up with production and the Steam Deck and Steam Deck dock are officially in stock and available for purchase! The Steam Dock currently runs $89 which is a pretty penny for everyone that already bought a dock alternative while we waited. The Dock includes a gigabit ethernet […]
General Slider controls now allow more precise input for large ranges, and accelerate changing the value the longer left/right is held. Fixed scrolling on home recommended screen due to discovery queue Fixed issue where What’s New section was not populated properly Fixed an issue loading game carousel items on the home recommended tab Fixed crashing […]
Have our prayers been answered? The official Steam Deck twitter has announced that they will begin sending Q3 reservations on Thursday, June 30th, and that they will now be shipping double the previous number of Steam Decks each week. I’m curious if this means that they will continue sending reservation emails on Mondays and Thursday […]
According to official sources, Valve has chosen to delay the Steam Deck Docking Station. According to their release, this is due to parts shortages and closures at manufacturing facilities due to COVID. Unfortunately, they did not choose to offer any hope in the way of a date when we can expect more information or even […]
Steam has officially released a recovery image for anyone that needs to recover, repair, or re-image their Steam Deck, despite saying that this image is not officially “SteamOS 3″‘ Steam Deck Recovery Instructions Download the recovery image here (click). Prepare a USB key (8GB minimum) with the recovery image: On Windows we recommend using the […]
According to Steam’s compatibility tool, Borderlands 3 is Playable on the Steam deck with minimal issues. Borderlands 3 has a Gold rating on ProtonDB, with some users citing issues with black screens and slow load times. While multiplayer seems to be working for some, others mention stuttering and other performance issues. According to Steam, users […]
According to Steam’s recently launched compatibility checker, Star Wars: The Old Republic is Playable on the Steam Deck. This game has a platinum rating on ProtonDB, which means that any issues preventing The Old Republic from achieving Verified status are primarily due the handheld format of the Steam Deck. According to Steam, The Old Republic […]
With less than 24 hours remaining until the Steam Deck launch, Steam has released a tool to check games from your library to see what you’ll be able to play. Steam currently is working through their entire library of over 60,000, assigning each one a ranking from Verified to Unknown. Verified Games work great on […]
Valve has stated they will be breaking from Debian with their next release of SteamOS. Debian[2] has long been a beacon of stability in the world of Linux distribution, but it seems like the team at Valve want to pursue a more volatile rolling release model by switching to the Arch-based Linux distro Manjaro. SteamOS […]
On February 25th, 2022 Valve will begin sending out emails to reservation holders in the order that reservations were made. You will have 72 hours from the receipt of your email to make the purchase of your steam deck. If you do not purchase your reserved Steam Deck in the 72 hours, the reservation is […]