The last Steam Deck Podcast (for now)! Watch Wednesday's announcement video to hear about all the changes coming to FlipScreen Games in 2026: https://youtu.be/x89VdeJGp0o

Steve and Max discuss the upcoming Game Awards and go through some of the best games you've played on Steam Deck in 2025

Steve, Pete, and Max share their reactions to Valve's bumper Steam Hardware announcements and what the Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame have to offer!

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• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:03:13 - Steam Controller
• 00:26:52 - Steam Machine
• 01:05:39 - Steam Frame

Max and Steve discuss whether it's time Valve made a Steam Console with the news that the next gen Xbox may just be a PC in disguise.

Max shares some of his Steam Next Fest picks and Steve and Max ponder whether Valve should get into cloud streaming.

Pete is back to join Max and Steve this week, and the trio discuss the mystery DDOS that took down a bunch of gaming services… But who was behind it?

With the Xbox Ally X costing $999 and Game Pass now coming in at an eye-watering $360 a year, Steve and Max wonder whether it's even worth it or if you should just stick to Steam Sales.

Steve and Max discuss native linux games vs Proton and whether it's the future of gaming on SteamOS. Max shares impressions of Silksong, and Steve is back into Stardew Valley after the 1.6 update.

This week saw a mysterious new device called Valve Fremont show up on GeekBench, quickly followed up with some additional information from SadlyItsBradley on X.

The SDP crew break it all down and share their thoughts on this mystery new device.

Steve and Max share their tips on how best to optimize games to run on your Steam Deck.