In the Q4 category while waiting for your Deck, yet somehow you still got an email? It’s not a mistake! Valve’s Lawrence Yang mentioned on Twitter: Hi all, a few of you may have received an order email for your “Q4 window” Steam Deck reservation today. This wasn’t a mistake! Production has outperformed our estimates, and we’ll be moving more Q4 folks into the Q3 window. Wow. Production is scary fast.

Steam Deck stable Deck client update improves the offline experience and adds keyboard fixes stable SteamOS update adds workaround for RDR2, improves performance for Forza Horizon 5. The beta Deck client adds a bunch of Steam Input improvements Pierre-Loup Griffais has teased an update to the Arch base…finally the Lifesaver is a pretty nice accessory to have when you forget to zip the case even more Deck invites are coming out!

Did you know you can play online multiplayer with Nintendo Switch games on Linux? It’s possible thanks to Ryujinx’s LDN build. Today the LDN build got an update that now enables Vulkan. This means improved performance on AMD and Intel, and all GPU vendors “will enjoy drastically reduced shader compilation stuttering!” Mind you, the last time we saw an update to LDN was back in November, so all the changes made to the main branch since then have made it over to the new 2.

Quite a few new games are playable with today’s Proton Experimental update: Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull Re-Volt Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Aspire: Ina’s Tale Battle Realms: Zen Edition WARRIORS OROCHI 3 Ultimate Definitive Edition OUTRIDERS Some fixes and improvements have also been added: Fix cutscene stutter in Disgaea 5. Fix Thrustmaster HOTAS having non-functional dial in Elite Dangerous. Fix raytracing in Crysis Remastered. Fix Planet Zoo randomly crashing. Improve video playback in Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen.

So what can I say about the Lifesaver accessory for the Deck? Though it may be a simple, 3D-printed piece of plastic, it works wonders when it comes to keeping the Deck from slipping out from its case. Steam Deck HQ recently did a review on this, and now that I’ve got one, here’s my take on it. Your browser does not support the video tag. Let’s face it: any of you Steam Deck owners out there have probably gotten lazy at one point and put the Deck in the case without zipping it up.

It’s a pretty audacious title to have for a game. First, it makes the pronoun “you,” rather than “we” or “they.” You suck at parking! Second, it claims that you already suck at parking, even though you haven’t even played the game. And yet, I have to admit, true to the name of the game, I suck at parking. You Suck at Parking is basically a game where you control a car, and your goal is to get it parked in the desiginated area.

A little over a week ago Valve pushed an update to the Preview branch that reverted a VRAM workaround for Red Dead Redemption 2 and fixed some issues regarding random stutter and performance drops if the performance HUD was enabled. Well, that update is now available in the Stable branch, starting today. There’s also improved performance for Forza Horizon 5 from a beta update that shipped a couple of days later.

The past few beta updates to the Steam Deck client have now been pushed to the stable branch. Notably, some fixes were added to Offline Mode, a couple of fixes to the on-screen keyboard have made it in, and the hot/cold temperature notification has temporarily been disabled “while we address issues with false postives.” Patch notes are as follows: Offline Mode Fixes We’re continuing to look at making the user experience of playing games without an Internet connection a better, more intuitive experience.

Proton 7.0-3 has now bumped to 7.0-4. Included in this update are seven newly playable titles: Aquarist - My First Job Trove Chuzzle Deluxe Zuma’s Revenge! Karmaflow The Rock Opera Videogame - Act I & Act II The Rising of the Shield Hero: Relive The Animation Disgaea 5 Quite a number of bugs have been fixed, including game-specific fixes for Elden Ring, Final Fantasy XIV, and Civilization IV: Fix Elden Ring getting stuck on a white screen on first launch.

Small update out for Beta and Preview Steam Deck-ers. Today’s Deck client update (beta) mostly focuses on improving the offline experience. Patch notes are as follows: Fixed issue where rebooting while in Steam Offline Mode would cause games to fail to launch Fixed the Cloud Sync error notification popping up when offline Disabled Steam Offline Mode button when not connected to the internet, as trying to do this currently gets Steam Deck into a bad state.