Valve’s huge SteamOS 3.8 update adds long-awaited features — and supports Steam Machine

March 20, 2026
1:27 am

A small black cube with USB ports on the bottom of the front panel, a thin glowing light bar above that, and the remaining seven-eighths of the front panel red with a Team Fortress character in silhouette.

Valve has just released SteamOS 3.8.0 in preview, and it’s a doozy.

Not only is it the first release to support the upcoming Steam Machine living room gaming PC, it comes with long-awaited features for Valve’s handhelds and more support for other companies’ handhelds than we’ve seen to date – including Microsoft and Asus’ Xbox Ally series, the Lenovo Legion Go 2, the OneXPlayer X1, and additional support for MSI, GPD, Anbernic, OrangePi, and Zotac.

The one that excites me most: Valve is adding genuine hibernation and “memory power down” modes to the Steam Deck – though just the LCD model to start – which should help extend battery life w …

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Valve’s huge SteamOS 3.8 update adds long-awaited features — and supports Steam Machine