News Round-Up for March 18-25 (Dark mode for GNOME 42, System76 interview, Proton Experimental Update, and more)
Steam Deck On the desktop, users can now get an alert on the Steam client when their pre-order is ready to purchase It won’t be long before we reach the 2,000 mark for Steam Deck verified/playable titles. So far we’ve got over 1,700 It seems Bandai Namco is the company that has the most Deck verified/playable titles out of any other publisher. They have 20 at the time of writing this The Steam Deck client got an update with bug fixes, performance improvements across the Steam store, and new features Discord Overlay now works on the Deck Users can now report whether a game was correctly verified or not.
News Round-Up for March 11-18 (New Stadia Tech)
Was hoping to get this out yesterday but time flies. Hope a day late isn’t going to bother anyone.
News Steam Deck-related
ETA Prime – A YouTuber that mostly focuses on emulation – released a Steam Deck review last week, and covers the gaming as well as the emulation aspect of the Deck. Needless to say, the Deck is one of the most powerful handhelds out there for emulation. Gameranx also had a video review That Boiling Steam contributer that got a Steam Deck?
Your (Weekly?) Dose of Steam Deck News
My acquaintance (and who I work for on a freelance basis), Gardiner Byrant, has released a new video today on his YouTube channel that covers a wide swath of Steam Deck news since the time the device went “live” on February 25th.
In it he covers Proton updates, specific games that were updated to have better Steam Deck support, how Valve has made development for the Steam Deck easier, Bungie’s distaste for the Steam Deck, unofficial testing for titles on Deck through GamingOnLinux, the interview with Gabe from IGN, accessories for the Deck, Collabora’s collaboration with Valve on SteamOS 3.