With just a few days remaining before Steam Deck units start shipping. What better way to celebrate mobile gaming than bring attention to some great native titles that are out of this world. Here are just a few of the title we’re excited to blast off with on Steam Deck launch. EVERSPACE “Between its beautiful […]
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 […]
The Steam Deck is poised to be one of the more disruptive forces in handheld gaming, but all I’m hearing is “what’s a Steam Deck?” How can Steam Deck change Linux gaming? For years I’ve been a Linux gamer. One of the of the greatest pleasures I have, aside from wasting copious hours playing video […]
At Steam Deck Monster, I’m trying to give prospective Linux gamers the broad picture on what can be played and run on Linux. The easiest way to approach this is from the Steam Deck environment since it gives a consistent base for all gamers on linux. Unfortunately we were unable to get a testing deck […]
What is a Flatpak? Flatpak is a tool for managing applications and the runtimes they use. It’s a system for building, distributing and running sandboxed desktop application on Linux. If you want to learn more about the ins and outs of flatpaks, check out the Arch Linux wiki. You can explore a whole world of […]
5. The Elder Scolls 4: Oblivion. Following the release of the Nintendo Switch, people have been able to enjoy Skyrim on the go. Now with the steam deck we can take the classics with us. 4. FFXIV That’s right boys. Compatibility may be up in the air, but on my testing machine I’ve been playing […]
Anything you can make work. I’ve been testing constantly with the latest version of proton, steamOS, and my own custom Arch steamOS install. Some of the things I’ve made work: ARMA 3 Planet Side 2 Halo: The Master Chief Collection* FINAL FANTASY XIII Insurgency: Sandstom* Squad* Rising Storm 2: Vietnam* Tales of Berseria The Elder […]
All screenshots are taken from a Steam Deck development box in desktop mode. We’ll be the first to update you if anything changes. Fable, originally brought to the PC and Xbox in 2005, won gamers over with it’s innovative and in depth character system. It was later remastered and released in 2014 as fable anniversary, […]
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 […]
Steam Deck was built from the ground up for an optimal PC handheld gaming experience, and hardware engineer Yazan Aldehayyat shows how – and why- they made it the way they did. Even more importantly, he shows how those decisions allow for developers to bring all different kinds of games to Steam Deck as an […]