Heads up: a new Steam feature FINALLY appears on Deck!

This week: Heroic Games Launcher brings some cool new features to their project. Plus, aftermarket upgrades–both new and old–for the Steam Deck are on sale and GuliKit teases new surprises. What do they have in store? And there has been a series of software updates for the Steam Deck, we’ll look at the biggest changes. All this and more. That’s right! It’s Steam Deck News Time!

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*What are your PC specs?*
My Office Rig:
❯ AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
❯ ASRock B550 TAICHI RAZER Edition
❯ MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
❯ G. SKILL DDR4 32GB x4 (128GB)
❯ HYTE Y60 Case

Emily’s Rig:
❯ AMD Ryzen 7 1800x
❯ MSI Pro Series X370 SLI PLUS
❯ NVIDIA GTX Titan X (Pascal) 12 GB
❯ GSkill Ripjaw V DDR4 8GB x4 (32 GB)
❯ Fractal Design Define R9 Case
❯ Manjaro GNOME

Living Room Gaming Rig:
❯ ASUS X99-E-10G WS
❯ Intel Core i7-6900K @ 3.2GHz
❯ NVidia Titan X (Pascal)
❯ DDR4 Corsair Vengeance RGB 8GB x8 (64GB)

Backup Rig
❯ System76 Thelio Minor
❯ AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
❯ DDR4 16GB RAM
❯ Zotac Nvidia GTX 970 4GB

Home Server:
❯ ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3
❯ AMD FX 6300 at 3.5 GHz
❯ Nvidia GTX 750 1GB
❯ DDR3 20 GB RAM

– TImestamps –
00:00 – Intro
00:21 – GuliKit has a surprise
01:49 – Heroic Games Launcher 2.8.0
02:09 – DLC manager
03:27 – Monthly Plugin Recommendation: MangoPeel
04:11 – Aftermarket Steam Deck upgrades
04:51 – Proton Experimental fixes “”many”” games
05:33 – Beta Update introduces long-awaited feature
06:56 – Stable SteamOS update

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