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While other vendors continually push out new handheld pc models, sticking similar internals into different shell designs and gradually bumping up RAM or the Processor, the Steam Deck just keeps selling like hot tasty cakes.

There’s multiple other devices out there now that are in a few ways more powerful than the Steam Deck, but that hasn’t seemed to matter a whole lot to Valve.

Especially since the release of the Steam Deck OLED, which was a pretty huge upgrade, it’s constantly a global top seller for Valve.

When compared with other vendors like GPD, AYANEO, ASUS and all the others, Valve of course have the Steam store to back it up.

Other vendors don’t really have anything like that, so Valve are in a more unique position to stick to one main model.

You only have to look at the new built-in Game Recording feature to see, and the upcoming SteamOS 3.6 that recently moved from Preview to Beta that again brings in some big additions.

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While every month Valve has been posting a fresh set of the most played Steam Deck games for the previous month, they’ve now added a dedicated Steam Chart for it.

Like the most played for May and again for April.

So you no longer have to wait for Valve to post about what’s currently hot, you can just go and see for yourself.

Like other Steam Charts you can filter it and with the Steam Deck chart it lets you view the most played games over the last week, month and year based on player counts.

For example, this is for the last week, and handily it shows the Deck Verified rating too:

While you’re here, why not hop on over to our Forum to talk about Your favourite game so far of 2024?

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The first pre-release is now available for testing, allowing you to give feedback before the final 3.0 release.

Naturally, if you don’t want to deal with any breakage, you should wait for the the main 3.0 release.

Along with fixing the newest break in the steam beta, we’re proud to announce we’re releasing the first prerelease of Decky Loader 3.0, the websocket rewrite!

For users, it means a hopefully more stable experience with better error handling, as well as more in-depth progress indication in Decky and its plugins.

It’s also allowed us to fix a bug where Decky would sometimes not start without an internet connection.

For plugin developers, it means a significantly easier to use API (it is now also asynchronous) and an easy way to do backend -> frontend communication.

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A South Korean media outlet has alleged that local telco KT deliberately infected some customers with malware due to their excessive use of peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading tools.

The number of infected users of “web hard drives” – the South Korean term for the online storage services that allow uploading and sharing of content – has reportedly reached 600,000.

Malware designed to hide files was allegedly inserted into the Grid Program – the code that allows KT users to exchange data in a peer-to-peer method.

The incident has reportedly drawn enough attention to warrant an investigation from the police, which have apparently searched KT’s headquarters and datacenter, and seized evidence, in pursuit of evidence the telco violated South Korea’s Communications Secrets Protection Act (CSPA) and the Information and Communications Network Act (ICNA).

The investigation has reportedly uncovered an entire team at KT dedicated to detecting and interfering with the file transfers, with some workers assigned to malware development, others distribution and operation, and wiretapping.

Of course, given files shared on P2P are notoriously targeted by malware distributors, perhaps KT the telco assumed its web hard drive users wouldn’t notice a little extra virus here and there.

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Valve has launched another small update for the Steam Deck with SteamOS 3.6.6 Preview now available for testing which may be essential if you’re playing ELDEN RING.

Fixed a an issue with a rare session crash during early startup of ELDEN RING

Fixed a general issue affecting all units on 3.6, and OLED units on 3.5, causing a slow memory leak during gameplay

Fixed a DSP firmware crash with previous 3.6 versions that could result in internal sound disappearing until next reboot

Fixed an issue that could cause videos to stutter in titles such as BlazBlue Centralfiction

Great to see so many fixes coming in, SteamOS 3.6 is starting to shape up quite nicely now!

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Alpha League Battlezone Gold Edition in VR mode Black Desert Online FreestyleFootball R Helldivers 2 Hero’s Land Iragon SimCity 3000 Unlimited Warlords Battlecry III

Clustertruck Fallout 3 (standard and GOTY edition) - partial support only Fallout 4 Mugsters The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (72850) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition Tomb Raider: Anniversary Tomb Raider: Legend

Fixed Ghost of Tsushima and Horizon Forbidden West displaying a warning about outdated drivers with Nvidia GPUs.

Fixed Ubisoft Launcher asking for serial number on the first launch of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.

Fixed Shatterline freezing on loading screen when trying to join a second online match in a session.

Improved font rendering in Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop on Steam Deck.

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Speaking on stage as part of an IGN Live interview, Spencer said directly that “I think we should have a handheld, too.”

The comment stops just short of an official announcement that Microsoft is actively working on portable gaming hardware for the first time.

“The future for us in hardware is pretty awesome,” Spencer continued during the IGN presentation.

Comments like these are a big change from internal Microsoft documents that leaked last September, which listed an Xbox portable as a “current gap in FY23” that is “not in scope for 1st party” (alongside potential products like a mobile controller, earbuds, and a media remote).

But Spencer was quick to call that leak “outdated” at the time, so it might not be the last word on Microsoft’s portable gaming plans.

That feels like ancient history, though, in a world where everyone and their corporate subsidiary is looking to draft off the market success of the Steam Deck.

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HDR is now supported on Steam Deck and other HDR-capable Linux systems using a new Vulkan-based renderer.

By default, the new Vulkan renderer is only used for HDR streaming, but it can be used all the time by setting the PREFER_VULKAN=1 environment variable.

By default, the new Vulkan renderer is only used for HDR streaming, but it can be used all the time by setting the PREFER_VULKAN=1 environment variable.

A new Metal-based renderer is now used on most macOS systems for increased streaming performance and reduced latency.

Both notched and notch-free native resolution options are now provided on Apple Silicon Macs.

There’s also a bunch of other Linux support improvements, some behaviour changes and plenty of the usual bug fixes.

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The Linux user share on Steam has smashed through the 2% barrier.

Not actually for the first time though, it did initially rise up above 2% in March 2013, shortly after the original Steam for Linux release when it left Beta.

Part of the reason it had higher numbers at the start, was that Valve added a special Tux item into Team Fortress 2 only on Linux but it quickly dropped in the following months.

With the latest info though from the May 2024 survey, Linux has now hit 2.32%.

If I have my historical data correct, we haven’t seen Linux be over 2% since 2013.

Take into account the explosive growth of Steam as a platform and that’s quite a lot of people now.

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Albino, who is also a popular Twitch streamer, complained that his YouTube video playing through Fallout was demonetized because a Samsung washing machine randomly chimed to signal a laundry cycle had finished while he was streaming.

To Albino it was obvious that Audego didn’t have any rights to the jingle, which Dexerto reported actually comes from the song “Die Forelle” (“The Trout”) from Austrian composer Franz Schubert.

Albino suggested that YouTube had potentially allowed Audego to make invalid copyright claims for years without detecting the seemingly obvious abuse.

"Ah okay, yes, I’m sure they did this in good faith and will make the correct call, though it would be a shame if they simply clicked ‘reject dispute,’ took all the ad revenue money and forced me to risk having my channel terminated to appeal it!!

YouTube also acknowledged in 2021 that “just one invalid reference file in Content ID can impact thousands of videos and users, stripping them of monetization or blocking them altogether.”

“That rings hollow,” EFF reported in 2021, noting that “huge conglomerates have consistently pushed for more and more restrictions on the use of copyrighted material, at the expense of fair use and, as a result, free expression.”

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The important thing to remember is that Deck Verified only includes what Valve have put through testing.

There’s more supported games than any one person can play, which is a pretty good place to be for a platform overall.

You can see the proper numbers on SteamDB, since that includes delisted games you can still play if you own them (which Valve still verify).

Various developers still have not enabled support via Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye including Rust, PUBG, Rainbow Six: Siege, Destiny 2 and more.

Additionally, while we don’t get sales numbers from Valve on anything, we can see overall the Steam Deck has been selling well.

Looking at the global top sellers, the Steam Deck constantly ranks quite high.

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Quite a popular recently Steam release is MULLET MADJACK, a very vibrant single-player FPS set inside a retro Anime.

In the recent patch the developers noted they “fixed bugs between save interactions carried out from pc to steam deck and vice versa messing with the game”.

Exciting and dynamic combat: Race against time and infiltrate a building alone, overcoming each floor until you reach your objective.

Campaign mode: Clear floors filled with robots, and in crucial moments, execute ultraviolent finishes on your enemies to survive.

Unique visual and art style: The contrasting colors between black and vibrant neon evoke the aesthetics of violent and adult anime from the era of VHS tapes.

Engaging narrative: Set in an Old School cyberpunk world full of robots, the aesthetics of 90s anime merge with an action-packed environment.

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An update many have been waiting for, Caves of Qud, one of the best roguelikes ever has a Beta available that includes a huge overhaul to the UI.

Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants.

Come inhabit a living, breathing world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations.

They said this transformational UI design works fully with mouse or gamepad (on top of keyboard) and is much prettier.

Also added in this update are Steam Cloud saves, good for those hopping between systems, they’ve refreshed the starting town, there’s hundreds of new sound and visual effects plus new narrative touches, big bug fixes, & performance improvements.

Caves of Qud has Native Linux support and is Steam Deck Verified.

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For those of you who wait until Denuvo Anti-tamper gets removed from games, you’ll be pleased to know Back 4 Blood is now free of it.

As shown on SteamDB, the notice about it having Denuvo Anti-tamper was removed and it’s no longer noted on the Steam page.

Nice to see, especially for Linux / Steam Deck players because swapping around Proton versions can cause you to get locked out for a day.

On top of that on May 15th the developers noted an update that “addresses an Easy Anti-Cheat issue for Steam Deck users where players could not access the game” (which would have affected desktop Linux players too).

So it’s good to see that Turtle Rock Studios care about their players on Linux systems.

Back 4 Blood is currently 90% off in the Humble Store sale.

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Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR’S CUT is launching on May 16th and the developers have explained how it will work on Steam Deck but it’s a mixture of good and bad news.

Sadly on Steam Deck and presumably desktop Linux too, since they both use Proton, you’ll only be able to play single-player.

We know many of you are eager to play Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut on handheld gaming devices like the Steam Deck.

We’re happy to share that the single player experience, including the Iki Island expansion, can be enjoyed on Steam Deck and similar handheld gaming PCs as we’ve worked extensively to optimize performance and deliver the best possible experience on these devices.

This is due to the Legends co-op multiplayer mode requiring Windows to access PlayStation Network integrated features.

We’ve seen this sort of thing happen in the past and eventually Proton updates catch up with what’s needed.

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Free Stars: Children of Infinity, the sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters (Star Control 2) is now confirmed to be supporting Linux (and macOS).

The Kickstarter campaign has only been up for just over a day and it’s already managed to pull in over $240,000 in funding.

This means the $220,000 stretch goal for Linux and macOS support has been achieved as confirmed by the developer.

Since it also passed $240K, it will also now see a DRM-free PC release as well so that’s double good news.

It’s not confirmed what DRM-free stores they will put it on but their announcement mentioned possibilities being itch.io and GOG.

The campaign still has a whole 29 days to go with extra stretch goals including more languages, local co-op, console ports, English voice over and if they somehow hit $4.4 million they will open source it all.

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Version 1.7.0 is out now for chiaki4deck, the open source community-made PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck bringing in some goodies.

This version brings with it the new remote connection via the PlayStation Network, so you can connect to your console without needing to mess around with port forwarding making it much easier to get going when someone is hogging your TV.

Enable don’t fragment for MacOS Big Sur and later for more accurate MTU readings during Senkusha.

Create a fallback session id when session id isn’t received instead of erroring out.

Workaround patch for vulkan ffmpeg hw decoder bug affecting Nvidia 30 series graphics card users.

Add additional option for obtaining the PSN AccountId via logging in with your PSN username and password (in addition to the public lookup).

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Version 1.7.0 is out now for chiaki4deck, the open source community-made PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck bringing in some goodies.

This version brings with it the new remote connection via the PlayStation Network, so you can connect to your console without needing to mess around with port forwarding making it much easier to get going when someone is hogging your TV.

Enable don’t fragment for MacOS Big Sur and later for more accurate MTU readings during Senkusha.

Create a fallback session id when session id isn’t received instead of erroring out.

Workaround patch for vulkan ffmpeg hw decoder bug affecting Nvidia 30 series graphics card users.

Add additional option for obtaining the PSN AccountId via logging in with your PSN username and password (in addition to the public lookup).

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