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Half-Life 3 Leaks Point To Reveal Next Week: Everything We Know About The Previously Cancelled Sequel

The rumour mill is spinning and it points to a Half-Life 3 announcement coming pretty soon. With the game being cancelled years ago, exactly what is going on?

International Business Times UK

New Steam hardware leaks ahead of official announcement – the return of an old fave, refreshed

Valve is getting ready to unleash at least two new Steam gaming products

Half-Life 3 Announcement Leaked on Reddit: Buzz Suggests Reveal Poised to Eclipse GTA 6

Rumours ignite the gaming world as leaks suggest a Half-Life 3 announcement is imminent, a reveal so massive it could overshadow the hype for GTA 6.

International Business Times UK

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After 3 years, Valve's Steam Deck is still one of the best gaming handhelds — but the conversation has changed

The Steam Deck isn't far off being four years old now, and in a world with many other handhelds to choose from, how has it held up?

Windows Central

Valve's next VR headset tipped to launch this week – here’s what we know about the Steam Frame

Valve's long-awaited Steam Frame VR Headset (aka Deckard) might launch as soon as November 12.

TechRadar

Larian publishing director says Steam is dominant because 'It isn't providing a s*** service defined by public shareholder KPIs,' but concedes 'A post-Gabe world is a terrifying one'

It'll be fine, right? It'll be fine.

PC Gamer

'Half-Life 3' Release Date: Fan Theory Speculates on Potential Launch of Highly Anticipated Game

A fan theory is pinpointing the potential launch of Half-Life 3, one of the most anticipated games in the industry.

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Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, one of the PC's best spaceship strategy games, 'will no longer be available for purchase on any platform' as of next week

Another Slitherine-published game bites the dust.

PC Gamer

Stalker dev GSC Game World DMCA'd a Stalker-inspired indie off Steam⁠, and the devs are crying foul: 'This is an abuse of power against small independent developers by a large corporation'

Misery, not to be confused with the Stalker mod, is currently unavailable for purchase on Steam.

PC Gamer

Steam's wider store pages are now live, and Valve says it tested them on 'a tiny old iPod' to make sure they'd still work on narrower screens

"Things get pretty small" if you try to browse Steam on an iPod, but your PC monitor can probably handle the new 1,200 pixel page width.

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says there's a reason Steam is so popular: "It's almost as if it isn't providing a s**t service"

Valve's storefront continues to be indispensable to players and developers

GamesRadar

"Of course, you must be on Steam. But Steam isn't the entire world": CEO of game distribution company says yes, some PC gamers prefer "local" stores to Valve's mega-shop, and China is a huge factor

"There are very big markets – China, Eastern Europe, Latin America – where local platforms are simply stronger in trust, in loyalty, in payment behaviour"

GamesRadar

Valve just made Steam Deck downloads much easier – and I hope this feature comes to all SteamOS handhelds

Valve has just released a new Steam Deck 'display-off low-power download' update, but it's currently only available via the beta and preview channels.

TechRadar

Veteran game developer Scott Miller explains why it took 3D Realms so long to get PC gaming's most ambitious but ultimately flawed sci-fi FPS game over the line: 'Let's just put all our eggs into the Duke Nukem basket'

Aliens, big guns, and portals take time to cook

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Counter-Strike 2 has a fancy new feature that makes demo playbacks 'match the player's original experience much more closely'

"TrueView provides a more accurate representation of the observed player's experience."

Windows Central

Steam Deck gets a long-awaited feature as Windows handhelds are left staring longingly — raw power means nothing against a superior handheld experience

Steam Deck keeps getting better and smarter with screen-off downloads, while the Xbox Ally still feels a step behind in polish and convenience.

Lenovo Legion Go S (SteamOS) review: Improving on the Steam Deck

Is this the only true successor to the Steam Deck?

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Steam Deck Update Adds 'Display-Off Mode' for Seamless Background Downloads

Valve's latest Steam Deck update finally lets gamers download games with the screen off, saving power while keeping downloads running in the background.

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Finally! The Steam Deck can now download games in a new 'display-off, low-power' mode before automatically going to sleep

Sweet dreams, Steam Deck.

Destructoid

Those pesky Steam Deck downloads just got way better in new firmware update

Power on and wait? No more.

GamesRadar

"In other words, 72% don't know what a monopoly is," analyst says of study that finds 72% of game devs "see Steam as a monopoly"

"Market share isn't what defines a monopoly, folks"

PC Gamer

Study says only 72% of game developers reckon that Steam has a monopoly on PC games, and even with some big caveats, it makes me wonder what the other 28% are thinking

Most of the developers surveyed were C-suite level.

TechRadar

Windows 11's new Full Screen Experience is available for MSI Claw handhelds, but I still wouldn't choose it over SteamOS

Microsoft is making good headway with its Xbox Full Screen Experience rollout, but it still needs to move faster.

Tom’s Hardware

AMD clarifies commitment to support for RDNA 1 and 2-based GPUs — company backtracks on RX 7900 series USB-C functionality (Updated)

AMD ended mainstream driver support for its RDNA 1 and 2 GPUs in a new update that sought to focus on the RX 7000 and 9000 series for day-one optimizations for new releases. This could mean trouble for handhelds that rely on tuning to achieve their full potential on Windows,…

PC Gamer

The latest Steam beta adds 'a suspicious chat warning' when you receive a potentially malicious message, something it probably should have done years ago

It's a bit late, but very welcome.

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