At long last, the Steam Deck UI has replaced Steam’s Big Picture mode-
It’s been a long time coming, but Valve has finally taken Steam’s old Big Picture mode—with all its blurry visuals and tabs that straight-up don’t work—and replaced it with a new, Steam Deck-inspired UI. It came as part of a hefty Steam client update released yesterday, and in my testing seems to work pretty well, but some users are reporting a few kinks that still need to be worked out.
I’ve put some pictures of the new UI below, and it’ll be incredibly familiar to anyone who’s futzed around with a Steam Deck. It’s pretty much just the standard interface of Valve’s handheld blown up to fit the dimensions of a proper TV. The mode now drops you straight into a list of your recently-played games, rather than letting you pick between Store, Library, and Community (the fir…
’10 years ago, we were just a couple of friends in my apartment trying to figure out what we wanted to do’- the studio at the heart of the boomer shooter boom reflects on its first decade-
New Blood Interactive and its longtime members have an almost “elder statesman” position in the boomer shooter scene—the indie FPS milieu that celebrates design and aesthetic trends from the ’90s and early ’00s. That status hardly came about overnight, though.
“10 years ago, we were just a couple of friends in my apartment trying to figure out what we wanted to do,” founder Dave Oshry told me in an interview covering the studio’s decade anniversary, as well as the release of an SDK and visual remaster for its 2018 FPS, Dusk. “There was never a plan other than to hang out with friends and try to make games, which was the same thing I was trying to do 10 years ago. It just turns out that that’s actually the way to stay together.”
“Most of the stuff we did for the …