In a move that probably surprised no one, Valve has delayed the production of the docking station for the Steam Deck. No word on when it will become available to purchase or what it will cost. “We’re working on improving the situation and will share more info when we have it,” the post from Valve mentions. Good news is the docking station is being manufactured at a different facility than the one the Steam Deck is.

A few weeks ago, NoiseTorch, the popular application that filters out background noise from your microphone, seemed to have been compromised. After a few audits were made by the community, it appears that no malicious code has been found. In version 0.12.0, a few updates have also landed. Some C components were removed as part of a “small spring cleanup,” a more clear UI better indicates to the user what’s going on, and security has been improved by adding “several GitHub actions to automatically validate and verify the code we have written and will write in the future.

Earlier today Valve released an update to the stable branch of the Steam client. Included in the update is an important fix for Linux and Mac OS users: filesystems that don’t support pre-allocation (FAT32 or ExFAT, for instance) should no longer fail when installing a game or a game update. For the Steam Deck, color quality has been fixed when streaming from a Linux host. A streaming connection should remain intact when Steam has been restarted.

We finally got an update from Pine64. It looks like from here on out the monthly newsletter will be posted on the 28th of each month, though this is tentative. It’s been a whole year since you’ve been able to buy a Pinebook Pro. Now you can finally get one in late June or early July. Price will remain the same at $219, but the small caveat is the battery is 400 mAh smaller than the 2021 models, which had 10,000 mAh.

NVIDIA driver version 515.48.07 just got released today. This includes improved performance of applications run through GameScope, as well as plenty of bug fixes. Full patch notes are as follows: Published the source code to a variant of the NVIDIA Linux kernel modules dual-licensed as MIT/GPLv2. The source is available here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules and will be updated each driver release. Please see the “Open Linux Kernel Modules” chapter in the README for details.

When it comes to x86-based handhelds, there’s plenty of them. Even before Valve’s announcement of the Steam Deck, companies like GPD, Aya Neo, and Onexplayer were making portable PC gaming a reality. Up until this point, however, none of them could compete as far as price. They generally cost about $1,000, give or take, giving the Steam Deck a huge cost advantage. Gabe Newell has repeatedly mentioned that getting the cost of the Deck to what it currently is was “painful.

A new Steam Deck client update rolled out yesterday. Steam Remote Play Together is now fully functional, and one of the keyboard themes received improved performance. A few notifications have been added. Full changelog is as follows:

• Remote Play Together is now completely functional on Steam Deck. Includes hosting and joining game sessions. Try out a supported game and open the Quick Access Menu to get started. - Added notification when the Steam Deck's SSD has less than 2GB of free space left - Improved performance of Night Shift keyboard theme - Added the ability to name controller layout commands - Added icons for gamepad and mouse commands shown on in-game virtual menus - Fixed being unable to connect to hidden wireless networks - Added time zone region for Saskatchewan - Added ability to close a window if the running application has more than one visible - Added ability to change accounts from the power menu At the same time, SteamOS as a whole has graduated from the 3.

I had reviewed Guilty Gear -Strive- on Boiling Steam a little less than a year ago. In it I had mentioned how amazing the soundtrack is. Seems like Arc System Works was aware of that, so they deliberately held off from putting the soundtrack on Spotify or as a separate purchase on Steam. Well, today the soundtrack is now available for purchase. There’s two discs’ worth of content and they’re $10.

Seems like it’s been a long time since we got an update from the 2D fighting game Them’s Fightin’ Herds. Well, not to worry, we’ve finally been updated on what’s going on with the game. Last year, the game got ported to Linux. Some time later the Mac version went up as well. Now the game will be heading to consoles later this Fall. While it may not seem like a big deal for us Linux gamers, the good news is all versions will have cross-platform multiplayer, meaning on PC you can play against someone on Switch, for example.

Project Heartbeat gets an update today. Here’s a quick list of what’s new: new song: Reprisal skin editor visualizer rework and new main menu visualizer new UI elements rework of the Controls editor sorting system a cross is displayed when a note is missed plenty of bug fixes Check out the patch notes on Steam. Cover image credit: Project Heartbeat developer