Steam Deck: Last News

Steam Deck will soon have an easier time doing so, as Valve has announced that it is doubling down on production. This news comes via a post from the official Steam Deck Twitter page that reads: “Production has picked up, and after today we’ll be shipping more than double the number of Steam Decks every week!”Additionally, the post mentions that Valve “just sent the last batch of Q2 emails” out, while “Q3 reservation emails” will be sent out on June 30. The post also notes that those waiting on their emails can check their reservation status via the ordering page for Steam Deck by logging in.The handheld gaming device was released in February after several delays, and it can be purchased in three different versions: one for £349, another version for £459, and the most expensive going for £569.

Valve has announced that the Steam Deck now has over 2000 “verified” and “playable” games on it.A post on the Steam Blog begins with the announcement that over 2000 games have been marked in the “verified” or “playable” categories for the Steam Deck. These two tags indicate that games are either wholly supported by the Steam Deck (verified), or are playable but not be perfectly optimised (playable) for the handheld PC.To get “verified” for Steam Deck, games have to meet a strict set of criteria created by Valve.

Valve has said the company is developing multiple games at the moment.Valve designer Greg Coomer spoke to Axios about the future plans for games at the company, the Steam Deck and more.Whilst Coomer didn’t reveal what Valve is working on specifically, he said that “there are multiple games in development right now at Valve, and I think they’re pretty exciting ones.”The company’s last game was Aperture Desk Job, a short experience in the Portal universe that acts as a way to show off the Steam Deck, although the game can also be played on PC as well.Before the Portal spin-off, Valve released Half-Life: Alyx, a VR-exclusive prequel to Half-Life 2. A “no VR” mod was released for the game, giving players the opportunity to play the game on their PC screen.Coomer was also asked about revisions to the recently released Steam Deck, saying that Valve is looking into a model of “monolithic updates” for the handheld, as the company doesn’t “have a completely ironed-out plan for the cadence of the hardware updates.”Interestingly, Coomer said the Steam Deck got its name as an “allusion to the form factor,” as it is an apparent reference to slang from skateboarding, sci-fi and other things the staff like.When any information will be revealed about the upcoming Valve games was not mentioned.

Steam Deck will start shipping worldwide at the end of February, and multiple developers have talked about what they like regarding Valve’s portable PC.Shipping from February 28, the Steam Deck is almost out in the hands of players, but it’s already been in the hands of developers for some time, as they’ve been adjusting their games and testing the hardware to make sure titles run on it when it launches.In preparation for the launch, PC Gamer talked to plenty of developers to get their opinions of the Steam Deck.Jonathan Smårs, of Iron Gate said: “I was surprised how well games work on it without any changes, and how good it feels to play on it. Valheim worked from day one on Steam Deck without any changes”.“The graphic settings need to be set down a bit compared to my high end PC of course, but I’m still impressed with what such a small handheld can handle without any platform specific optimizations,” Smårs added.“The touchpad for the mouse, I dare say, might be one of the best I’ve ever used,” added Raymond Doer, owner of SixtyGig Games.

blog post by developer Valve, it has revealed the official release date for its portable system the Steam Deck as February 25.Originally planned to be released last year in time for the holidays, Valve’s portable console the Steam Deck was delayed for two months owing to global computer chip shortages. After the wildly successful pre-order period, Valve then focused on the Steam Deck as its highest priority.Despite the delays Valve reassured customers in both December and January that the Steam Deck was still on course for its February release. Now in an official blog post Valve confirms the release date as February 25 and explains further the purchasing process.People who pre-ordered the Steam Deck will only be allowed to purchase the model they applied for.

Valve has released an update to developers that announced Easy Anti-Cheat is now compatible with Steam Deck software.A post from Valve provides details of the support and should allow many games to be supported on the Steam Deck with minimal input from the developers.“Our team has been working with Epic on Easy Anti-Cheat + Proton support over the last few months, and we’re happy to announce that adding Steam Deck support to your existing EAC games is now a simple process, and doesn’t require updating game binaries, SDK versions, or integration of EOS. Alongside our BattlEye updates from last year, this means that the two largest anti-cheat services are now easily supported on Proton and Steam Deck.”The post also includes a link for developers using BattlEye or Easy Anti-Cheat to follow, with documentation on how to enable Proton support (via PCGamesN).“Related to this, we’re going to start submitting Deck Verified test data for tested titles that use anti-cheat middleware on Monday, January 24.

Valve has shared some images and details surrounding the packaging and developer kits for the upcoming PC in your hands, the Steam Deck.The team has apparently completed its design validation for the handheld, which “is the final prototype build before production, and it includes improvements from the EV2 build.

Steam Deck, the upcoming handheld gaming PC, won’t have any titles unique to the hardware platform, Valve has confirmed.In an official FAQ mainly targeted at game developers (as spotted by PCGamer), Valve says of platform exclusive titles: “No, that doesn’t make much sense to us. It’s a PC and it should just play games like a PC.”This was in response to the question: “Would Valve be interested in having any Steam Deck exclusive titles?”, which given its appearance on a list of frequently asked questions, indicates that developers have shown fairly significant interest in creating such exclusives.Valve also confirms wider ambitions for SteamOS, the Steam Deck front end, with plans to release it as a separate operating system.

Valve has outlined more details of its upcoming handheld gaming PC Steam Deck, revealing hardware features players can expect to benefit from.The details came as part of a Steamworks Virtual Conference, a series of six streamed videos that, while targeted at developers creating games for the Steam Deck, was free for anyone to watch.One of the most interesting – and nerdy – revelations is the name of the Steam Deck’s system on chip or SOC.

Valve has announced that the process of getting BattlEye anti-cheat software into Steam Deck titles is quite simple. According to a Steamworks development post, all developers need to do is reach out to BattlEye to enable the anti-cheat software to get it working on the Steam Deck.“BattlEye on Proton integration has reached a point where all a developer needs to do is reach out [to] BattlEye to enable it for their title,” says the post from November 6. “No additional work is required by the developer besides that communication.

Valve has revealed that it is reviewing “the entire Steam catalogue” to identify Steam Deck compatibility levels for every game on the platform, though confirms that not all games will be playable on the console.Yesterday (October 18), Valve shared news on how the company will assign “Deck Verified” status to games. Being “Deck Verified” means passing four tests: input, seamlessness, display and system support.On the review process, Valve said the following:“We’ve already started reviewing titles and will continue to check games through launch and beyond.

Steam Deck, allowing games that use it to run well on the platform.BattlEye has confirmed that it will natively support the upcoming Steam Deck operating system Proton. Some anti-cheat systems have yet to announce their compatibility for the system.

Steam owner Valve has plans for a new method of downloading games, allowing players instant access to software while it’s installing.The system is found in a new patent filing, which you can view online here and here. While it has the rather dry title of “Tracking file system read operations for instant play of video games, and for client-side discarding and prefetching of game data”, the implications could be significant for players and developers alike.It seems to be based around communicating which parts of a game users typically need to access first, possibly based on what a number of players do first in a game.

Steam Deck earlier this week, it appears images of how the UI looks are appearing online.As reported in PC Gamer, SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik shared screenshots of how the Steam Deck UI looks on his Windows desktop, which is essentially the Steam Deck UI on a big screen, and what is set to replace Steam’s existing Big Picture Mode.“It’s basically the desktop library just reformatted a bit,” Djundik wrote. “There is no way to access the store at the moment.”Steam Deck UI, it's basically the desktop library just reformatted a bit.There is no way to access the store at the moment.

Valve’s upcoming handheld console Steam Deck are now being dispatched, the manufacturer has confirmed.The hotly anticipated hardware is “all packaged up and ready for devs”, Valve announced in a blog post.

Steam Deck may not actually be able to run every Steam game at launch.Ramey is the president of CodeWeavers, which works with Valve to develop Proton.

Valve have opened up requests for developers to get their hands on the Steam Deck before it’s released later this year.Taking to the Steam community, Valve said, “We’re thrilled to announce that Steam Deck dev kits are ready to ship, and we’ve opened up the request form.“As a Steam developer, you can go to the hardware request form to request a Steam Deck Dev Kit. Fill out the form and be sure to read through the agreement and dev kit guidelines.

Steam Deck designers at Valve have said they think that the portable will be a good upgrade option for PC players.In a recent interview with Steam Deck designers Greg Coomer and Lawrence Yang, Rock Paper Shotgun talked to them about what they expect from the console.“We don’t have a strong prediction that a bunch of people are going to choose it as their first PC” Coomer said, “but as a lot of people choose to upgrade their existing PCs, we feel fairly confident that Steam Deck will be a choice that they make.”Yang concurred that the Steam Deck is a “viable choice,” and that “you can do everything you’d do on a PC with it, and it’s just a little PC that you can plug stuff into.”The interview goes on to talk about screen resolution and how

Steam Deck developers have discussed how Steam’s past hardware helped shape the upcoming handheld PC gaming device.The developers spoke about the Steam Deck in an interview with IGN at the beginning of the weekend (July 30). IGN spoke with Valve designers Greg Coomer, Lawrence Yang, and Scott Dalton about the console, and how Valve’s previous hardware informed the development of the Steam Deck.Coomer spoke about two of Valve’s previous hardware releases: “Steam Deck feels like the culmination of a lot of that earlier work.

Steam Deck‘s early prototypes was apparently called the “Ugly Baby” according to a Valve developer.In an interview with IGN‘s Ryan McCaffrey, Gabe Newell and Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais discussed the Steam Deck and revealed some of the other names the handheld device originally had.Some early names were things like “Steam Buddy” and “Steam Pal” as Newell said in the interview, while Griffais revealed that the Steam Deck had some “pretty terrifying prototypes” so the team “gave them appropriate names”.“Like Ugly Baby, and things like that.

Steam Deck reservations from its site. Some were listed for over £700.Valve’s handheld PC system, the Steam Deck, is set to release next year.