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In a recent interview, Valve warned that the upcoming Steam Machine won't be priced like a game console. It's not clear what that means just yet, but speculation concerning the Steam Machine's pricing has been rampant. We previously wrote...
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Valve's massive Steam hardware announcements included the first in-house designed Valve Steam Machine, and while most of its reception was positive, a number of critics have expressed skepticism about how well the Steam Machine will...
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Valve is releasing a handful of new gaming hardware, including an updated Steam Controller, a standalone VR headset called Steam Frame, and the return of the Steam Machine, this time in a compact cube design that's unofficially been dubbed...
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Valve is launching three new Steam Hardware projects in 2026, and two of them are quite familiar. The Steam Frame is the newest of the bunch, intended as a lower cost alternative to the ultra-premium Valve Index, joining the likes of Meta...
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Steam might be the near default choice for finding and buying games on PC, but Valve isn’t resting on its laurels, as it’s implementing improvements to the user experience. Thanks to the insight the company gets from its user surveys, it...
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Based on some odd Steam Sale timing and a giant gap between them in November, which seems characteristic for Valve when it wants to showcase a product, the studio's most dedicated fans believe that Half-Life 3 or Valve's next-gen Steam...
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The Steam Deck just got a smart quality-of-life update that allows it to stretch further into the realm of proper dedicated gaming devices. Valve has added a new display-off, low-power mode that lets the handheld finish downloading games...
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The Steam Deck is already one of the best bangs for buck in the PC gaming handheld space and the value proposition just got even better with Valve's steep discount in play. For a limited time, the base Steam Deck is is 20% off for a low...
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This week, Valve's Steam Deck and Steam Client are both seeing updates for the month of September, with updates for Steam Deck mirroring those for the Steam Client on Windows and Linux, with some platform-specific differences we'll be...
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Valve's original Steam Machine concept failed mainly because the software wasn't ready yet. That is demonstrably not the case anymore, as Linux-based machines are now able to run the majority of Windows gaming software with no compromises...
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At this point, it may seem like a foregone conclusion that Valve will eventually get around to releasing a second-generation Steam Deck handheld, especially since it previously discussed what features might find their way into a followup...
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Folks who aren't of a certain vintage may not actually recall that, nearly a decade ago, Valve attempted to launch a home-console-like experience with the "Steam Machines," small form-factor PCs running Linux and meant for living-room PC...
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PC gamers with an interest in the inner workings of their machine have historically had to rely on a mish-mash of third-party tools to keep track of CPU, memory, and GPU usage. Commonly used tools include HWMonitor, HWiNFO, and MSI...
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Valve’s woes with payment processors continue, with a popular option being cutoff from its customers in various parts of the world. After having to perform a mass delisting of games featuring adult content, due to pressure from companies...
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The gaming community has been in an uproar after storefronts such as Steam started a mass delisting of adult games following pressure by payment processors. Gamers subsequently mobilized to lead a campaign against these delistings...
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Steam users can look forward to a more refined experience according to Valve, as the company updates its storefront to better fit the way players use it to buy and play games. The store menu within the Steam Client will be treated to a...
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Steam is a PC gaming jugernaut, and it largely considered the defacto digital distribution network for developers and game buyers alike. This has led to the platform amassing a wide variety of games, including some of the spicy variety...
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Valve's Steam Desk console just became an even more formidable handheld, and it's thanks to NVIDIA. No, there's not an upgraded model with a discrete GeForce GPU tucked inside. However, there is finally a native GeForce NOW app for the...
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Valve has responded to reports of a major data breach in which Underdark.ai, a cyber threat intelligent service, highlighted a dark web forum post by a hacker claiming to be in possession of 89 million Steam user records. According to...
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The dream of finally playing Half-Life 3 remains alive and well. Even though fans have gotten Black Mesa, which modernizes the original game, and have a gorgeous remasteed Half-Life 2 in the pipeline, there’s still a yearning for a new...
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An engineering sample of Valve's Steam Deck handheld appears to have sold on eBay for $2,000 (it was listed for $2,999.99), plus another $5 shipping. So $2,005 total, if our math checks out. That's three times higher than Valve's most...
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Half-Life, one of the best first person shooters of all time, got its flowers with the amazing Black Mesa remake made by fans with Valve’s blessing. Half-Life 2 is now getting the same treatment, once again led by fans, with Half-Life 2...
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