Steam Deck News Roundup!

Sung to the melody of Chop Suey by System of a Down:

Yes, I have a Steam Deck!

And on February 25th, I believe Linux gaming history will be made when it releases. It may not start with a bang, but it will have a far bigger impact than people are expecting.

I’m ridiculously excited for this launch. For me, it’s the culmination of everything I’ve covered in the Linux gaming space since I made the switch myself in 2018 and started writing about it professionally.

I cannot wait to tell you everything I possibly can about this device.

(Here’s how I’ll be testing it over the next week and beyond.)

But in the meantime, I have a firehose of news and opinion pieces I’ve written in the past 10 days or so. Before that, a really cool history lesson.

In the summer of 2012, Valve took its first steps down the road of its own Linux journey. Read this blast from the past, courtesy of Archive.org:

The Steam Deck is already poised to launch with more perfectly playable games than the N64 had in its entire lifetime. But that’s not remotely the most interesting stat I dug up.

Of the currently 337 Verified games deemed perfectly playable on Steam Deck — a handheld console running Linux — 267 of those games never had a native Linux port. So, almost 80 percent of the games currently certified to run flawlessly on a handheld Linux game console were never even released for Linux.

I wrote about this in more detail here:

Why have I been writing almost exclusively about the Deck? Because the news just keeps coming, and it keeps me smiling. Here’s what transpired in just the last few days:

And two more fun little posts I’ve written just to close this out with some whimsy:

If you can’t get enough Steam Deck content, check out my dedicated category for Valve’s handheld console. And stay tuned for Episode 3 of Games For Everyone!