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Half-Life remade as a roguelike, approved by Valve, and playable now
The original Half-Life has been remade as top-down, twin-stick shooter roguelike, which has been approved for Steam by Valve and has its first version out now.
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Nintendo sends Valve DMCA notice to block Steam release of Wii emulator Dolphin
On Friday, the developers behind open source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin received a DMCA takedown notice from Nintendo blocking Dolphin's impending release on Steam. The development team launched a Steam page on March 28 and announced it on the Dolphin blog, writing: "We're pleased to finally tell the world of our experiment. This has been the product of many months of work, and we look forward to getting it into users' hands soon!"
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The era of 100GB games is upon us, and the average PC gamer is underprepared
On the list of life's many stressors—money, health, social injustice, wanting to buy eggs at the grocery store but being unsure if there are still some in the fridge—the free space in my SSD ranks surprisingly high. A new massive game install hits like a jab to the gut. Every week is another dozen gigabytes closer to having to make some deep cuts.
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Why does the Steam Deck run Linux? Blame Windows
The Steam Deck and its Linux-based software are the culmination of a decade-long "hedging strategy" by Valve after the Windows 8 disaster.
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Valve likes the idea of an OLED Steam Deck, too, but says it isn't as simple as it sounds
Swapping to a new screen is "a bigger amount of work than people are assuming it would be."
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Valve is working on a major update for 'Team Fortress 2'
After years of neglect, Valve is preparing to release a major update for Team Fortress 2. This week, the studio published a rare blog post on the official TF2 website (via Kotaku), asking the game’s community to submit new content to the Steam Workshop ahead of May 1st. “The last few Team Fortress summer events have only been item updates. But this year [Valve’s emphasis], we’re planning on shipping a full-on update-sized update – with items, maps, taunts, unusual effects, war paints and who knows what else?!” Valve said.
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Elden Ring Starts 2023 With Over 91k Concurrent Players On Steam
Elden Ring is nearly a year old and has captured millions of gamers around the world. The game has recently won the Game Of The Year award at TGA 2022, adding to an impressive list of accolades for FromSoftware’s latest release. Elden Ring has been able to maintain a solid player base since its release, but many months later, the number of players went down by a significant amount on Steam.
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Senator Asks Gabe Newell Why Steam Hosts So Much Neo-Nazi Content
New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan sent Valve a letter decrying the vast amount of white supremacist imagery in its user generated content and community spaces.
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Valve will give away over a hundred Steam Decks during The Game Awards
You have quite a few streaming choices for this year's upcoming Game Awards, but Valve is making its Steam TV coverage more enticing than most by giving away a ton of Steam Deck consoles. The video game developer and distributor has announced that it's giving away one 512GB Steam Deck every minute during the live airing of the awards show on December 8th. To be eligible, you'll have to be watching the event on Steam TV, which starts at 7:30PM ET, and you'll have to register on the giveaway's official page beforehand to enter the drawing.
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Oops: Valve Shows Switch Emulator In Steam Deck Vid, Then Deletes It
There are a lot of reasons why people buy Steam Decks, Valve’s new portable gaming PC. It lets them take beloved Steam games on the go. Others use it to get the most out of Xbox Game Pass on PC. And some people use it to run a Nintendo Switch emulator called Yuzu. Valve admitted as much in a recent YouTube video showing off the handheld’s very Switch-like HDMI dock.
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Valve now has repair centers that can fix your Steam Deck
Send it off for Valve to repair
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Valve is planning for a next generation of Steam Deck
Valve seems to be going all-in on the console market with the Steam Deck. One of Valve’s designers confirmed the company is planning to develop next-gen iterations of the handheld PC, with streaming in mind.
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Steam Generated $3.1 Billion in Revenue in the First Half of 2022
The video gaming industry witnessed massive growth during the pandemic. However, the upward curve has come to a halt in 2022. According to the numbers presented by SafeBettngSites.com, Steam generated $3.1 billion in the first half of 2022. This figure represents a 3% year-on-year growth.
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Valve Drops A Steam Deck Surprise - It's Good News
A little more than a month ago, Valve declared it would increase the pace at which the Steam Deck portable gaming system gets shipped. That announcement, however, didn’t truly address the worries of people who had been waiting months in line to purchase a reserved home. Finally, some fantastic news for hungry fans.
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YouTuber indulges in Steam Deck destruction to demonstrate device's durability
Are you, like me, still lost in Steam Deck pre order purgatory? Is "after Q3 2022" an infinite void swallowing up the future, with the promise of PC gaming on the go seemingly never to arrive? This video from DIY YouTube channel JerryRigEverything of one getting bent, burned, and stabbed may give you some catharsis.
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iFixit will sell nearly every part of the Steam Deck — including the entire motherboard
The era of fixing your own gadgets has nearly arrived, and Valve’s Steam Deck handheld gaming PC may be setting the best example yet — not only does it offer a repair-friendly design, but it now looks like almost every part will be sold separately at iFixit. This evening, the company prematurely revealed a huge collection of its promised repair parts at its website, and we were surprised to see everything down to the motherboard with the AMD Aerith chip at the heart of the Steam Deck will soon be available, admittedly for a pricey $350.
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The Steam Deck finally has Windows audio drivers
Two and a half months after our Steam Deck review, Valve has finally provided the drivers you’ll need for audio if you choose to install Windows on the gaming portable. Before today, you would have had to pair Bluetooth headphones or plug in USB-C earbuds or a dongle to get any kind of audio on Windows at all. Both the speakers and 3.5mm jack did nothing on Windows before today, and it blamed AMD for the delay.
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Forget Windows 11, retro Apple macOS runs on Steam Deck
Step aside Windows 11, a vintage computer enthusiast has transformed the Steam Deck into a retro Hackintosh handheld by installing Apple macOS 7. MigaIsNotACat demonstrates the 90s operating system running on the portable powerhouse in a Twitter video, and you don’t even have to get rid of SteamOS to experience the nostalgia.
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Valve says it’s "ramping up" Steam Deck shipments
The first Steam Deck Q2 order emails just went out.
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Jamming Windows onto the Steam Deck robs the device of its soul
There are reasons you'd want to stick Windows onto Valve's Steam Deck. Obviously contrarianism is one. Morbid, geeky curiosity, another. Then there's a desire to play Destiny 2, Fortnite, or a bunch of Microsoft games that have been nixed from the original Linux-based SteamOS 3.0 installation. But having made the jump into Windows 11 myself this past weekend, I need to tell you none of those reasons are good enough to rob the Steam Deck of its soul.
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