Don’t Poke A Sleeping Deck

Valve just announced a new Steam Machine, a new VR headset, and a new Steam Controller. That is one hell of a way to wrap things up.

Steam Deck’s new sleepy-time downloads, resurrecting MicroVolts with ToyBattlesHQ, Dwarf Fortress’ dehydrated baby bug, OpenMW gamepad improvements, ARM Wine developments, and the new Arduboy FX‑C.

Windows users scramble to find a new excuses not to switch to Linux, the Steam Controller 2 “Triton” appears in the latest Steam update

Linux outperforms Windows on the Asus ROG Ally X! SuperTuxKart 1.5 is full of eggs, Ship of Harkinian gets a built-in MOD menu, and turning coil whine into music with OCCT.

DOOM: The Dark Ages is now Steam Deck Verified! GOG tracks down rights holders, DynaCache speeds up gaming on ARM, a room with 4K text adventures, and a wearable keyboard controller?

Valve is reportedly preparing around half a million headsets for the holidays, new action brawler Genokids has a demo, several games patch a nasty Unity vulnerability, Hyper Neo Geo 64 gets MAMEd, and survey says most players buy two games or fewer per year.

TF2 Classic is headed to NextFest, resurrecting Asheron's Call, MARVEL invades Linux, and Microsoft crashes Game Pass.

SteamOS fixes the headphone jump scare and improves Bluetooth wakeup. Baldur’s Gate 3 sees a small FPS boost on the Deck with native support. Sonic Secret Rings fan remake now has full controller support and new music. Someone unlocks the 40K games owned badge on Steam, and Twitch gets a rewind button.

Steam Frame rumors debunked, Bloober Team surprises with a Linux build of Cronos The New Dawn, Counter Strike 2 rolls out not loot boxes, RingRacers gets proximity voice chat, and Nvidia’s $5 billion Intel stake is not the end of ARC.

Valve’s Fremont leaks spark console and VR speculation, Steam rolls out language-based review changes, Silksong gets its first patch, Framework unveils