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Handheld PC makers are slowly losing touch with Valve's successful Steam Deck template of affordability, and that's very concerning

Handheld PC gaming was saved by Valve when it launched its Steam Deck at an affordable price, but other mainstream handheld PC makers are quickly spoiling its comeback with ludicrous pricing.

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Steam's redesigned store menu is in beta, and it hides that giant left-side link panel, adds an "enhanced" search bar, and puts recommendations all in one place

You can check out Valve's new Steam store menu in the platform's beta client

GamesRadar

Gabe Newell on the difference between billionaires and the rest of us: 'an awful lot of luck'

"...It would be great to say I'm just this absolutely f***ing wonderful person, and that I earned all of this, and that this expresses my awesomeness, but..."

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Gabe Newell says he ditched Microsoft and made Valve and Half-Life to prove "a better approach to game design" at a time where "there were more people using Doom than using Windows"

"And if I was wrong, I'd have to go back to Microsoft"

GamesRadar

The young Gabe Newell thought he'd be a doctor until he ended up visiting his brother at Microsoft, where 'Steve Ballmer got mad and said 'If you're going to be hanging out here, why don't you do something useful?''

We might not have Steam if Ballmer hadn't blown his top.

PC Gamer

Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft 'was missing the opportunity' offered by the internet: 'I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was'

"And if I was wrong, I'd have to go back to Microsoft."

PC Gamer

Deadlock fans in shambles after Valve dev issues a classically Valve update for its new MOBA: We see you're "really hyped up for an imminent update," but it "won't be coming for some time"

"We are very excited to get it out but it isn't ready yet"

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Is Steam Deck 2 secretly the next-gen PlayStation handheld? Valve and Sony's rumored partnership could make it happen, and I'm all for it

A Sony and Valve partnership could make the next-gen PlayStation gaming handheld I want, and the Steam Deck 2 could kick it all off.

Tom’s Guide

Half-Life 2 just got a patch that fixes a progress-blocking teleporter bug and makes a train easier to race

Full steam ahead.

PC Gamer

"It might be porn games now, but they won't stop there": Game devs join players and artists rallying against credit card companies after mass NSFW game delisting

Meanwhile, Itch posts and hastily deletes an endorsement of AI-generated messaging

GamesRadar

With "gracious permission from Valve," Garry's Mod update adds "most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content" to remove "majority" of infamous pink and black missing textures

A welcome GMod patch after 19 years

GamesRadar

At long last and 'with gracious permission from Valve,' Garry's Mod now contains 'most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content' even if you don't own those games

Players should no longer see pink checkerboards or giant ERROR models when they "play on community maps that expect you to have this content."

PC Gamer

The Steam Deck 2 and a home console are reportedly in the works – and Sony may be helping to turn the handheld into the portable PlayStation game device I really want

Speculation regarding a Steam Deck 2 and a dedicated home console from Valve has resumed, with hints of a quiet collaboration with Sony, and the potential of AMD's upcoming Zen 6 APU powering the console.

TechRadar

Steam Deck 2 rumored to be in the works — and it may arrive with a massive AMD APU upgrade

Valve may already be working on its highly anticipated Steam Deck 2, as rumors suggest it could arrive with a huge AMD APU upgrade.

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Steam’s Latest Crackdown On Sex Games Highlights An Alarming New Trend

Steam removed a wave of adult games from its storefront, and the results could be much darker than you think.

GamesRadar

Valve billionaire Gabe Newell says businesses should "listen to your customers and focus on them," putting employees, partners, and customers before capital

The lead behind Steam gives potential entrepreneurs advice

GamesRadar

Valve icon Gabe Newell says "AI is going to be a cheat code" and doubles down on new tech: "Figure out how to use AI to do anything better" across "pretty much every single business"

"That all seems super obvious," says the Steam billionaire

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Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there

Everyone hated that.

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Tom’s Hardware

Sending a Steam sticker 'burned through a month of mobile data in five minutes' complains unhappy gamer

A Steam Chat user who “burned through a month of mobile data in 5 minutes” blames Valve's animated stickers.

GamesRadar

Valve boss and superyacht enthusiast Gabe Newell says pitching VCs is a "deeply distracted" way to make money: "If you're creating value for people, the capital will come your way"

"The focus should always be on your customers, and on your partners, and on your employees"

Tom’s Hardware

Steam gaming finally comes to RISC-V — AAA titles like The Witcher 3 and Crysis now playable thanks to revamped emulation tool

Linux developers have managed to get Steam games running on RISC-V-powered platforms using a refined x86 emulator.

PC Gamer

The brainbox behind Valve's Steam Labs says the number of Steam releases featuring GenAI in 2025 is 1 in 5, with 7% of all games on there now incorporating it: 'We’ve octupled last year’s figure'

But there's still "a vocal anti-AI sentiment among artists and gamers who simply won’t buy games with this stuff in."

GamesRadar

Valve confirms pressure from banks and card companies is to blame for the storefront axing adult Steam games: "Loss of payment methods would prevent customers from being able to purchase other titles"

The company is removing "certain" titles only

PC Gamer

Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam

It's not a great precedent, that's for sure.

PC Gamer

This Redditor says it wasn't even that difficult to get a sub-$100 broken Steam Deck working again with parts from an old Nintendo DS Lite: 'not that hard at all'

And now it's fit with Nintendo DS Lite shoulder buttons, amongst other Frankenstein fixes.

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