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A July 10 Steam Deck Beta Client update surfaces Steam Machine Verified and SteamOS compatibility info directly on game capsules in Home and on game detail pages, alongside Remote Play and Steam Workshop fixes.
Social Deduction Fest opened today, July 13, and runs through July 16. Skip the free-to-play noise — here are the three paid games with real cuts worth your money, plus three free picks to fill out the lobby.
Square Enix's HD-2D turn-based RPG, the first mainline-adjacent Final Fantasy built around the mobile hit Brave Exvius, has already earned Valve's top compatibility rating on both Steam Deck and Steam Machine three months before it ships.
The Steam Summer Sale wrapped July 9, but Valve's next themed event is only three days out. Social Deduction Fest runs July 13–16 with deep discounts on deception and hidden-identity games — here are 7 picks worth wishlisting now, checked at today's regular USD pricing.
A new Great On Frame page just went live on the Steam store, Portal 2's compatibility rating quietly jumped from Playable to Verified, and shipment trackers now count 15 crates of Steam Frame hardware headed to Valve — all pointing at a launch within weeks.
A bug-fix release for DXVK, the Direct3D-to-Vulkan layer behind Proton, cleans up rendering regressions in Black Mesa, Gothic 3, and GTA IV, plus a shader bug that broke MSAA in Fallout 3 — all without waiting on a full Proton update.
After five beta builds, Valve shipped Proton 11.0-1 to stable on July 7, rebasing on Wine 11.0 and moving over a dozen games — including the original Resident Evil and Dino Crisis — out of Experimental for good.
A developer's Climbey test video accidentally revealed Steam Frame's home environment: Aurora, the same customizable starfield Valve built for Index, spotted alongside better tracking and performance ahead of an expected launch.
Valve's SteamOS 3.8.14 update fixes a bug where certain routers advertising incorrect MCS requirements were capping WiFi to lower speeds — throttling game downloads on Steam Deck and Steam Machine alike.
Two days after Diablo IV's Season 14 update broke Proton compatibility, Valve quietly shipped a Proton Hotfix that gets the game working again on Steam Deck and SteamOS — while Blizzard's own promised patch still hasn't landed.
Solo developer TobiasM Games made Pet Chamber, an unsettling tamagotchi-horror game about caring for a monster, entirely on a Steam Deck using Godot Engine's native Linux support.
Valve shipped SteamOS 3.8.13 to stable on July 1, fixing a Final Fantasy VII Rebirth crash-on-launch bug and a controller firmware update failure. The parallel 3.8.21 beta goes further, speeding up the Steam Machine boot splash and patching MSI Claw, Legion Go, and OneXPlayer controller regressions.
Valve's unreleased Steam Frame headset just got its first compatibility badge: Portal 2 scored Playable, failing only the native-resolution check. Day of Defeat scored Unsupported the same day — the clearest sign yet that a Steam Frame launch is close.
Valve's Steam Machine started shipping June 30 at $1,049. The first wave of reviews agrees on almost everything: beautifully built, silent, SteamOS is a joy — and the memory-crisis price tag exposes underpowered internals.
Ubisoft's remake of the 2013 pirate classic ships with a Steam Deck Verified badge on day one, plus ray tracing, dynamic weather, and full Steam feature support.
SteamOS 3.8.20 Beta ships a major Mesa driver bump with ray-tracing gains and, more importantly, the VRAM management overhaul Valve contractor Natalie Vock has been building since spring — a fix that nearly doubled performance on VRAM-starved GPUs in early testing.
New benchmarks confirm what Valve quietly admitted last week: shipping the Steam Machine with one 16GB RAM stick instead of two costs real performance in CPU-heavy games like Baldur's Gate 3, while GPU-bound titles barely notice.
Valve quietly built AMD's FSR 4.1.1 upscaler into Proton Experimental, auto-upgrading any FSR 3.1 game on RDNA 3 hardware — including the Steam Machine's GPU, in the same week the console started shipping.
Valve pushed a new Steam Deck Client update on June 30 that moves the Maximum Game Resolution setting out of the Advanced submenu, warns you when a game is rendering below native resolution, and bundles more Steam Machine compatibility fixes as the console starts reaching doorsteps.
Diablo IV's Season of Death Awakening launched on July 1 and immediately broke Proton compatibility — the game quits a few seconds after launch on Steam Deck and SteamOS. Blizzard's first emergency patch didn't fix it, and a second attempt is coming.