US EditionSteam Could Be Headed to Phones, Tablets, and Other Arm Hardware
Valve funds the open-source Fex emulator to enable Windows and Steam games on Arm devices, supporting a long-term goal to expand gaming to phones, tablets, laptops, and VR headsets.
- Earlier this year, Valve debuted the Arm-powered Steam Frame and quietly funded open-source emulation to run Windows games on Arm devices.
- Valve's work began in 2016, aiming to make Steam games playable on phones, tablets, Arm laptops and VR headsets while benefiting SteamOS and the wider ecosystem.
- Fex, which dates to 2018, lets Arm-based Linux phones run PC games using the Proton translation layer, and Ryan Houdek credited Valve's support, writing `I want to thank the people from Valve for being here from the start and allowing me to kickstart this project`.
- Other manufacturers are showing interest in SteamOS, but Google and Apple, platform holders, currently block universal phone deployment; if they open their ecosystems, Steam and Epic Store games could run without sideloading.
- Valve's funding and Arm hardware work position SteamOS as a foundation for a more portable PC gaming ecosystem, potentially expanding gaming to phones, tablets, and VR headsets.
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Steam could be headed to phones, tablets, and other Arm hardware
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Valve has been quietly funding an Arm emulation project for seven years now. Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped build SteamOS and the Steam Deck, told The Verge (paywalled) about it recently.While most of us already knew of their work on Proton, the popular compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux, their behind-the-scenes support for FEX-Emu, an x86-to-ARM64 emulator, has come as a surprise.Valve's Approach to Open SourceThe company …
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Valve Engineer Confirms Plan To Run Steam Windows Games On Arm & Even Phones
Valve has done a lot of work to support Proton, which is the compatibility layer that’s enabled Windows games to work smoothly on the Steam Deck, which also happens to be a Linux-based device. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, though, is that the company was funding another project, called Fex, which aims to bring x86 games to Arm, according
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