Games: Steam Client, Deck, Nebula, and More
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Steam Client Beta adds a new launch option for Big Picture Mode
Valve are working fast to clean up this New Big Picture Mode taken from the Steam Deck, with another Steam Client Beta for desktops out now.
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New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients - 2022-11-09 Edition - Boiling Steam
Between 2022-11-02 and 2022-11-09 there were 25 New Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 268 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 9.3 % of total released titles.
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Steam Deck gets a few extra fixes in Beta
Valve released another small Beta update last night, which pulls in a few useful sounding fixes for the Steam Deck. This is available in Beta and Preview. To change over you can find it in Settings >System >Steam Update Channel.
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Cities: Skylines 'World Tour' series of expansions and updates announced
Paradox and Colossal Order are filling up Cities: Skylines with more DLC and free updates as part of their "World Tour" series starting this month.
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Nebula is a starship colony sim with RPG adventures styled like RimWorld
Seems that Stardeus is not the only RimWorld inspired space colony sim around, with Nebula being another that plans to release in 2023. It recently finished crowdfunding on Kickstarter, with $87,290 from backers. You can support it still via their SlackerBacker.
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Sonic Frontiers works on Steam Deck and Linux desktop although it has issues
Sonic Frontiers is a big new release on Steam from SEGA and it does work out of the box on Steam Deck, although it has certain issues.
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Dead Cells gets a free indie cross-over update, Terraria 1.4.5 will see Dead Cells content
Two games are doing an indie crossover, with a Dead Cells update out now and the next Terraria update will also include some Dead Cells content.
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Steam gets a whole lot of improvements for the new Big Picture Mode
Still not quite ready yet it seems but Valve are pushing out lots of changes for the new Big Picture Mode, taken from the Steam Deck. Released in a new Steam Client Beta, there's quite a lot of improvements and fixes this time.
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Steam Deck Beta update now always shows the drive picker when installing games
Valve has pushed out another small but very useful update to the Steam Deck Client Beta, here's a run over what has changed this time including how you install games. This update is available in the Beta and Preview branches. To change you can go into Settings >System >Steam Update Channel.