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Valve just hiked the 1TB Steam Deck OLED price to just under $1,000

Valve has increased the price of its Steam Deck OLED models, and the 1TB handheld gaming PC will now set you back just under $1,000.

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Backrooms director Kane Parsons explains how influential Valve's Portal is to his work: 'I frequently have dreams where I'm just in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center'

Remember, no Portal just before bed.

PC Gamer

How to Use the CS2 Souvenir-O-Matic: Craft Your Own IEM Cologne 2026 Souvenir Skin

Here's how to turn any CS2 skin into a gold-stickered tournament Souvenir, step by step.

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IEM Cologne 2026 Major Shop: Every Sticker You Can Buy and Dynamic Pricing Explained

The IEM Cologne 2026 Major Shop is live, and here's how it works.

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Deadlock new midlane objective turned games into such a mid-only fiasco that it only lasted one weekend, though Valve's still experimenting

Oops, all urns.

PC Gamer

Rather than stressing about Steam Machine performance, I'd start thinking about your TV's specs

GamesRadar

Steam Machine appears in Vulkan’s conformant product database — upcoming Valve console is certified compliant with the graphics API

The Khronos Group, which created the Vulkan API standard and continues to develop and maintain it, added the Steam Machine to its list of conformant products. This does not indicate how far or soon a product will come to the market, but it's a step in the right direction showing…

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The Steam Controller's main competition isn't from Microsoft or Sony: It's from third-party vendors

Long gone are the days when third party was for player two.

PC Gamer

I bought Valve's new Steam Controller with my own money for a solid week of PC gaming — and you only need to know about one genuine downside

Valve takes another shot at a PC gaming controller that tempts players away from their consoles, and it convinced me to buy. So, was it worth the asking price?

Windows Central

Steam Controller puck charger nearly catches fire after contact with Pixel Watch 3 — sparks fly after the metal wristband magnetizes to the puck's pogo pins

A Steam Controller charging puck nearly causes a fire after the wristband on a Pixel Watch 3 magnetically attaches to the charger, causing the exposed pogo pins to arc electricity.

Tom’s Hardware

You need to know the Steam Controller's charging puck is always live, so if you accidentally touch it with something conductive, you're in for a shock

It's not an issue exclusive to Valve's hardware, but at the same time, it's something that shouldn't really exist

PC Gamer

Redditor warns they 'almost started a fire' when metallic watch strap made contact with Steam Controller's charging puck

Valve does warn about this in the Steam Controller's manual — but how many people actually read documentation?

TechRadar

In the early 1990s, Doom was famously installed on more PCs than Windows itself—but how many was that, actually?

Re-examining an old quote from Valve's Gabe Newell reveals a big gap in what we know about Doom's popularity.

PC Gamer

Valve asks New York court to dismiss Counter-Strike lawsuit, says 'people enjoy surprises' and equating loot boxes to gambling is 'nonsensical'

In-game items have "subjective and aesthetic value" akin to baseball cards, Valve insists.

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With a straight face, Valve insists Counter-Strike 2 cases are fine and "people enjoy surprises" in move to dismiss New York lawsuit

The Steam company compares CS2 skins to "popular collectibles"

PC Gamer

Now that Subnautica 2 is out, the most wishlisted game on Steam is… a game that's been out for almost 2 years?

It's Schrödinger's game: it is both unreleased and yet one of the most popular games on Steam.

PC Gamer

Half-Life owes its existence to one of the game industry's most formative figures—no, not Gabe Newell, the other guy

Before there was Gabe, there was Ken Williams, and he played a significant role in bringing Half-Life into the world.

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Goodbye RPGMaker, hello Capybaras: Steam’s updated tag list is a headscratcher

Illuminati out, Capybaras in.

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Steam gets huge tags overhaul for tailored recommendations and 'helping players identify the games that best fit their interests'

Valve has made some huge changes to Steam's discoverability feature by introducing new tags, removing some, and merging a bunch from the digital storefront.

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CS2 in 5 Minutes: Pros, Grinders, Casuals, and Case Openers, Explained

From the outside, Counter-Strike 2 looks like a normal game. A player opens the Steam client, presses Play, and loads into a match. Once that player spends more time with CS2 and starts blending into the community, that simple picture disappears. The game starts to look more like an iceberg…

TechRadar

PC gamers, say goodbye to PlayStation exclusives as Sony confirms single-player games aren't coming to PC anymore... except for one

PlayStation games on PC were becoming a mainstay for Sony, but plans have completely shifted, and it's bad news for PC players.

GamesRadar

Steam canonizes the Vampire Survivors subgenre that’s spawned a million clones

And Valve has added a Capybaras tag, more importantly

PC Gamer

Sony retreats from PC gaming, robbing us of maybe 4 games

The "prestige" Sony game is an increasingly endangered species.

PC Gamer

It's official: Steam decrees 'bullet heaven' the name of the Vampire Survivors genre

Wuxia, desktop companion, cleaning, and capybaras all also got official Steam tags.

GamesRadar

Valve veteran's suggestion for Krafton CEO as Subnautica 2 goes to the moon: "Maybe they should ChatGPT, 'What happens if Subnautica 2 is a super big hit? How are we screwed?"

It worked out so well the last time

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