Boiling Steam

Valve has just recently shipped SteamOS 3.8.28 stable, and this is a major update for the Steam Deck, but not only.

There are quite a few gems out there when it comes to classic shooters, and R-Type series is extremely popular if you had the chance to live in the 80s.

Between 2026-09-19 and 2026-09-26 we selected 9 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings.

Learn how to produce music with OFFBEAT, both a game and a music creating platform developed by Whetstone Games and published by Pantaloon.

Oh my God we are so late with this one, but since there were quite a few good games released in that week, better late than never!

It’s 2026, you are one of the biggest Japanese publishers, and you just realized that in a few months down the road there’s the TGS 2026, and you don’t have no plans for it.

How long is too long before something “gets good”?

I wandered into the eXtremeRate booth at the recent Tokyo Games Show 2026 expecting the usual: more remap kits, more back paddles for controllers I already own too many of.

A few days ago we went to the Tokyo Games Show 2026 and as expected, we were able to see the new model from ROG/ASUS, the Xbox Ally X20.

This one is a few days late too but we are catching up after the TGS!

This article is running a little late because of the Tokyo Games Show preparations that were undergoing over the past few weeks!

Between 2026-09-12 and 2026-09-19 we selected 14 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings.

It’s September and as usual we will be covering the Tokyo Games Show later in this week, as it takes place September 17–21, at the Makuhari Messe.

So there was an accidental leak of LTT’s first experience with the Steam Frame, apparently released at the wrong time (wink wink, we know what you guys did there).

Between 2026-09-05 and 2026-09-12 we selected 13 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings.

OrangePi has kindly sent us a new board to test, the OrangePi Zero 3W.

It’s going to be somewhat of a long story.

Between 2026-08-29 and 2026-09-05 we selected 10 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings.

Prevent harmful individuals from leaving Area 51 as a security guard in Security 51, a game developed and published by Alawar.

Between 2026-08-26 and 2026-09-02 there were 110 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds.

Between 2026-08-22 and 2026-08-29 we selected 15 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings.

Between 2026-08-19 and 2026-08-26 there were 131 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds.

Between 2026-08-15 and 2026-08-22 we selected 18 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings.

Between 2026-08-08 and 2026-08-15 we selected 6 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings.

Between 2026-08-05 and 2026-08-12 there were 81 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds.

There are quite a few games inspired by Chess on Steam these days, most of them trying to turn the traditional 64 square games into something a bit more fun and approachable by adding timers or power-ups, and shit like that.

Last time we had our regular checkpoint was in June 2026 and you may recall we observed that CachyOS was not only in the 1st spot on ProtonDB for desktop distros, but kept growing further, eating Arch Linux’s own share.

Between 2026-08-01 and 2026-08-08 we selected 8 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings.

Between 2026-07-29 and 2026-08-05 there were 138 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds.

Between 2026-07-25 and 2026-08-01 we selected 16 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings.

Between 2026-07-22 and 2026-07-29 there were 147 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds.

Our recent article about the Steam Deck sales crash went kind of viral in the past week, and because of that there were long threads of discussions available across Reddit communities (r/linux_gaming, r/pcmasterrace, and r/SteamDeck at least) discussing t…

Celestial Return promises a hard-boiled, cyberpunk and cosmic horror game.

It’s a piece of news that is a little bit late since we are covering a release that happened a few weeks ago in July 2026, that most people did not probably notice anyway as they were glued to the FIFA world cup.

Between 2026-07-18 and 2026-07-25 we selected 9 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings.

Between 2026-07-15 and 2026-07-22 there were 110 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds.

Following our recent article estimating the volume of Steam Machines currently sold on the market, I wanted to also go back to another very interesting piece of data and question: has the change of price of the Steam Deck in May 2026 had a big impact on t…

Between 2026-07-11 and 2026-07-18 we selected 14 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings.

Valve is a fairly secretive company when it comes to how they perform: they have never published quarterly hardware sales figures for its consumer devices.

Between 2026-07-08 and 2026-07-15 there were 83 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds.

Between 2026-07-04 and 2026-07-11 we selected 4 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings.

Just a few months back, I was talking with one of my friends about Paranormasight:The Seven Mysteries of Honjo - ecstatic again about how brilliant it was.

Between 2026-07-01 and 2026-07-08 there were 47 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds.

Between 2026-06-24 and 2026-07-01 there were 108 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds.

Between 2026-06-28 and 2026-07-05 we selected 2 newly released games that are rated as Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings.

Ok now this is a sequel to Huntdown, that I already had in my library but barely played before.

Another Steam Next Fest, plenty of demos to try.

Between 2026-06-20 and 2026-06-27 we selected 10 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings.

Between 2026-06-17 and 2026-06-24 there were 103 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds.

So we had the chance to review the OrangePi 6 Plus a few months back, equipped by the very impressive CIX P1 SOC, developed on a 6nm process.