Large Steam Deck update makes it more secure, easy to use, and extends battery life
The Steam Deck isn’t anywhere close to its final form.
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Valve continues to update theSteam Deckat a steady pace, delivering improvements and patches for the handheld gaming PC, molding it ever more into a fully-fledged console in its own right. And today’s update is more than just a quick patch, too. With a new lock screen feature, extended dock and charging support, new features, and even improved battery life in some instances.
Since there’s so much to cover, let’s get right into the new features worth knowing about.
And when it comes to updates to the Steam Deck experience, today’s update has a good few of those worth talking about.
You can read the full update noteshere.
Valve clearly hasn’t just pushed the Steam Deck out to the public and then called it a day, and it’s good to see these semi-regular updates bringing a lot of new features to the fore. The Steam Deck has a lot of potential, and while we’re generally pretty big fans of it, there’s definitely room for it to improve and get the most out of PC gaming on the go.
Here’s hoping there are some big performance-enhancing improvements on the way too, eh Valve?
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