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OBS Studio 32.1 Beta is out with a new Audio Mixer, WebRTC Simulcast support and more

Liam Dawe — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:09:03 +0000

Another new release of the excellent open source video capture and streaming app OBS Studio is being prepared, with OBS Studio 32.1 Beta out now.

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Steam Client Beta adds a revamped interface for opting into game Betas and other changes

Liam Dawe — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:26:07 +0000

On top of SteamOS 3.7.20 Beta and improvements to the Steam Workshop so mods can support multiple game versions, we have a Beta UI overhaul for Steam games.

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SteamOS 3.7.20 adds the ntsync driver to help improve some game performance

Liam Dawe — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:08:56 +0000

Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.20 Beta coming with just two changes, and one of them is very interesting to see arrive on SteamOS.

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Linux Mint 22.3 gets a Beta release with lots of new features

Liam Dawe — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:34:25 +0000

Linux Mint 22.3 is set to be the next long-term supported release and a Beta is now here you can test, with a surprising amount of new features.

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Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading

Liam Dawe — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:31:54 +0000

Valve released a new Steam Deck Beta update that includes a useful tweak to its Xbox controller detection.

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The huge Project Zomboid build 42 finally gets multiplayer just in time for the holidays

Liam Dawe — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:49:38 +0000

Wow - that sure took a while! A year since the first part of build 42 released and just in time for the holidays, Project Zomboid build 42 finally goes online.

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NVIDIA Beta driver 590.44.01 released for Linux

Liam Dawe — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:32:45 +0000

The first release of the 590 driver branch has arrived in Beta for Linux with 590.44.01 now available for those willing to give it a test.

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Steam Deck tweaked to fix delays with the screen-off downloads, and other Desktop Linux fixes recently

Liam Dawe — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:40:00 +0000

Valve put out another small Beta to fix up an issue with the new Steam Deck screen-off downloads, and some other Desktop Linux fixes that came recently.

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Steam Deck gets a new low-power screen-off downloads mode

Liam Dawe — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:33:49 +0000

Probably the single most requested Steam Deck feature since release is now in Beta, allowing you to get your downloads going with the screen off.

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The original Pillars of Eternity is getting a turn-based mode Beta on November 5

Liam Dawe — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:05:16 +0000

A chance to experience this classic RPG in a new way, with a turn-based mode coming to the original Pillars of Eternity on November 5th in Beta.

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Nexus Mods app improves file conflict management ready for Fallout 4 and Skyrim

Liam Dawe — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:33:10 +0000

The newer cross-platform Nexus Mods app is getting a lot closer to supporting games like Fallout 4 and Skyrim, with version 0.20.2 out now for testing.

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Valve fix some games on Linux / Steam Deck having incorrect Steam Play settings and added a chat warning

Liam Dawe — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:49:23 +0000

A fresh Steam Beta is out for Desktop and Steam Deck / SteamOS which brings some important bug fixes, and one that was especially annoying for Linux systems.

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SteamOS 3.7.17 Beta disables wake-on-bluetooth for Steam Deck LCD again

Liam Dawe — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:36:58 +0000

Seems that wake-on-bluetooth for the Steam Deck LCD model is quite problematic, as Valve have again disabled it in the latest SteamOS update.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong Patch 4 has a Beta up with a major controller input change

Liam Dawe — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:45:46 +0000

Team Cherry certainly are getting these patches out rapidly, they only just launched Patch 3 for Hollow Knight: Silksong and now Patch 4 has a Beta.

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Improved Steam Deck support is coming to Satisfactory

Liam Dawe — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:58:36 +0000

Satisfactory recently had a fresh experimental Beta for testing, which includes improvements to how it works on Valve's Steam Deck.

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Valve bring more essential bug fixes in the latest Steam Beta for Desktop / SteamOS and Steam Deck

Liam Dawe — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:01:22 +0000

The October 13th Steam Beta comes with a number of bug fixes for annoying issues, along with a couple of feature tweaks for all platforms.

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Team Fortress 2 Classic scrap their open beta and new Valve rules likely mean they have to change the name

Liam Dawe — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:36:47 +0000

Team Fortress 2 Classic is an upcoming Source Engine mod based on Valve's Team Fortress 2, it was due to hold an open beta but they've had to scrap it.

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Proton 10.0-3 release candidate live for testing better Windows game compatibility on Linux / Steam Deck

Liam Dawe — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:34:43 +0000

Valve have released a new release candidate build for the Windows compatibility layer Proton, with Proton 10.0-3 available for users to test.

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Speed is the name of the game in the Source Engine powered Momentum Mod

Liam Dawe — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:14:48 +0000

Momentum Mod is an upcoming Source Engine game based on movement-oriented game modes from various games. Gotta go fast huh?

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The truly excellent Utopia Must Fall has a new Beta with Steam Deck support

Liam Dawe — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:11:35 +0000

Utopia Must Fall is great base-defense arcade shooter, easily one of my favourites that I played earlier this year and soon Steam Deck players will enjoy it.

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SteamOS 3.7.16 Beta released to fix the performance overlay with Baldur's Gate 3

Liam Dawe — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:52:17 +0000

Valve just put up a small Beta release for SteamOS / Steam Deck, to bring a fix for the performance overlay acting weirdly with Baldur's Gate 3.

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Team Fortress 2 Classic will get an open Beta on October 13 during Steam Next Fest

Liam Dawe — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:49:06 +0000

Team Fortress 2 Classic is an upcoming mod for Valve's shooter that aims to re-imagine the launch era of the original game and you'll be able to try it soon.

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OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind has a first Release Candidate with gamepad support and a gamepad UI

Liam Dawe — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:04:52 +0000

An exciting release for the Morrowind game engine OpenMW is coming, with the first Release Candidate out for version 0.50.0 bringing some big changes.

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System76 COSMIC desktop Beta and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta now available

Liam Dawe — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:54:38 +0000

Two huge bits of news from System76, as they've released a Beta for both the new COSMIC desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS bringing lots of goodies.

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Valve fixes DualSense crash on Linux / SteamOS and improves game recording with Vulkan

Liam Dawe — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:57:24 +0000

Valve released another small Beta update for Desktop PCs, SteamOS and Steam Deck for the Steam Client to fix up some more annoying problems.

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A second Hollow Knight: Silksong patch is ready for testing - here's the details

Liam Dawe — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:49:34 +0000

Team Cherry clearly aren't slowing down on making improvements to the smash-hit Hollow Knight: Silksong, with a second patch already available to test.

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Steam Link VR for Meta Quest on Linux now appears to work in the latest updates

Liam Dawe — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:03:53 +0000

If you have a wireless VR headset and a Linux system, you might be excited to know that Valve's Steam Link VR now appears to actually work.

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SteamOS 3.7.15 Beta brings fixes for audio, security issues, Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go

Liam Dawe — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:36:43 +0000

While we're all desperate to know what the heck the Steam Frame actually is, Valve released SteamOS 3.7.15 Beta "The Sound of Silence".

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OBS Studio 32.0.0 Beta 1 released with a new plugin manager

Liam Dawe — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:45:05 +0000

OBS Studio is set to get even more advanced for all your recording and streaming needs on Linux, with the introduction of a new plugin manager.

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Valheim: Call To Arms major update announced with new combat mechanics and lots of new items

Liam Dawe — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:34:13 +0000

Iron Gate AB have been cooking! Valheim: Call To Arms is the next major update to the popular survival game and it's available to test right now.

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Valve continue building up their new game Deadlock with a big update with six new heroes

Liam Dawe — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:52:29 +0000

Valve developers are still working on their upcoming game Deadlock, a third-person MOBA and the latest update is a pretty big one.

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Steam is getting wider and more responsive store pages

Liam Dawe — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:58:36 +0000

Valve are continuing their work to modernise more of Steam, and now we're finally getting bigger and more responsive store pages.

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Nexus Mods app 0.15.2 brings updater improvements and more bug fixes

Liam Dawe — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:34:08 +0000

The Nexus Mods team just put out a new version of their in-development cross-platform mod manager, the Nexus Mods app v0.15.2 is now available to test.

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Linux Mint 22.2 Beta available for the next long-term supported release

Liam Dawe — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:58:43 +0000

Linux Mint 22.2 arrives soon with a Beta release now available so you can test it early, and help report any issues for the next long-term support release.

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Classic Marathon Trilogy on Steam gets a Beta with Linux support and lots of overall improvements

Liam Dawe — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:48:18 +0000

Classic Marathon, Classic Marathon 2 and Classic Marathon Infinity are getting some big upgrades with a Beta now available to test.

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Steam's Performance Monitor now supports showing CPU temperature

Liam Dawe — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:46:06 +0000

Valve released a small update to the Steam Beta Client to continue working on the newer Performance Monitor.

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NVIDIA Beta driver 580.65.06 released for Linux with bug fixes and expanded Wayland support

Liam Dawe — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:18:33 +0000

NVIDIA have released the first Beta for the 580 driver series, with NVIDIA Beta driver 580.65.06 bringing mostly bug fixes.

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Valve makes Steam Library customisation a little easier in the latest Steam Beta

Liam Dawe — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:49:45 +0000

Valve released a new Steam Beta Client update for Desktop and SteamOS / Steam Deck, making customising your Steam games a bit easier.

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Proton 10.0-2 (beta) brings even more gaming improvements to Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck

Liam Dawe — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:51:11 +0000

Valve have released the second major Beta for Proton 10, as we get closer to the stable release for gaming on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck.

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Valve reveal new Steam store menu and enhanced search now in Beta

Liam Dawe — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 10:33:58 +0000

If you're on the Steam Client Beta (Desktops), you might have noticed the Steam store looking a bit different with the latest update.

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Splitgate 2 is "going back to beta" with the original shutting down as 1047 Games have layoffs

Liam Dawe — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:03:33 +0000

1047 Games have announced that Splitgate 2 is going to be reworked, and they're shutting down the original Splitgate.

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Steam Beta upgrades the in-game performance monitor for Linux

Liam Dawe — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:59:54 +0000

Back in June, Valve revealed the new performance monitor for the in-game Steam overlay, and now the Linux version has been upgraded.

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Legion Go S gets Joystick LED controls in SteamOS, plus more Steam updates for all

Liam Dawe — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:20:59 +0000

Valve put out a new Steam Beta for Desktop and SteamOS, here's all that's changed for the July 14th update.

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Oblivion Remastered v1.2 gets a Beta with lots of fixes and optimisations

Liam Dawe — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:13:09 +0000

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is getting quite a big update soon, with version 1.2 now in Beta on Steam.

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Steam now has a UI scaling slider and accessibility menu on desktop

Liam Dawe — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:39:05 +0000

As Valve continue updating Steam with better accessibility options, the latest Beta makes it super easy to make Steam bigger (or smaller).

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The big Diplomacy Update for X4: Foundations is now in Beta

Liam Dawe — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:03:32 +0000

The Diplomacy Update for X4: Foundations is now in Beta bringing some huge new features to the popular space sim.

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SteamOS 3.7.14 Beta brings wake-on-bluetooth back to the Steam Deck LCD

Liam Dawe — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:12:05 +0000

Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.14 Beta, which for Steam Deck LCD owners is probably going to be popular as it brings back wake-on-bluetooth.

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Proton 10.0-2 gets a small release candidate update for Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck

Liam Dawe — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:10:33 +0000

Valve released a small update to the current testing build of Proton 10.0-2, ahead of the upcoming stable release for Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck.

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Steam gets more fixes for Legion Go S, 8BitDo and the In-Game Overlay

Liam Dawe — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 08:10:27 +0000

Valve released another set of Beta updates for the SteamOS Client and Steam Desktop to bring in bug fixes and expanded support.

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SteamOS, Steam Deck and Steam Desktop had multiple updates over the weekend - here's what

Liam Dawe — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:38:30 +0000

Valve clearly haven't heard of the dangers of pushing things out on a weekend, as we had multiple updates for SteamOS, Steam Deck and Steam Desktop.

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