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Valve Are Very Interested in Making a New Updated Steam Controller 2
Originally released back in 2015, some of you are possibly not aware that Valve actually discontinued the Steam Controller in late 2019. In fact, immediately leading up to its end-of-life, you could actually buy one for as a little as £5 making it, at least on the surface, a bit…
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Valve’s Steam Deck & Docking Station Are in Stock and Available Now!
Released last year to huge demand from consumers, the only issue which Valve has predominantly seen with the Steam Deck is that they haven’t been able to produce systems in numbers great enough to satisfy demand. As such, a pre-order queuing system has been in place in order to attempt…
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Steam Hardware Survey – Solid Gains for Intel & Nvidia but VR In Decline?
As we have often said in the past, the Steam Hardware Survey undoubtedly represents one of the best sources of information when it comes to consumer purchasing trends in the PC hardware world. No, gaming isn’t the be-all and end-all of hardware trends, but it is certainly indicative of what…
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Valve Confirms All Current Steam Deck Reservations Will be Fulfilled This Year!
The Steam Deck has so far proven to be an exceptionally popular console with consumers. And that’s hardly surprising given the overwhelmingly positive feedback it has received from both fans and critics. If there is one issue that has dogged the system since it started shipping earlier this year, however,…
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Valve Warns that the Steam Deck Will Suffer in Hot (35C+) Weather!
Following the heatwave earlier this week (which although not as horrible right now, does still seem to be lingering), while it’s pretty clear that many of us organic creatures suffered during the much higher than usual temperatures, it shouldn’t be ignored that, by and large, technology products don’t like the…
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Valve Confirms Steam Deck Docking Station Is Indefinitely Delayed
The Steam Deck has undoubtedly proven to be one of the semi-surprising tech hits of the year. Initially launched for pre-order last year, systems have finally been arriving in homes and, by and large, the response from both consumers and critics has been (mostly) widely positive for the handheld device.…
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Good News! – Steam Deck Shipments Are Rolling Out Ahead of Schedule!
Although shipments of the Steam Deck have already started heading out and arriving with the earliest of pre-order customers (some courtesy of postman Gabe Newell himself), the insanely high demand for the new handheld gaming system has seen many people left with a possible arrival date of either Q2 or…
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Gabe Newell Hand Delivers Steam Deck Systems! (Video)
If you successfully manage to order an Xbox Series X, I daresay that you wouldn’t necessarily expect Phil Spencer to turn up on your doorstep to put the console into your hands. – Following a video posted by Valve, however, it seems that the company chief Gabe Newell has decided…
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Valve Confirms that the Steam Deck has Been Delayed by 2 Months!
Following the formal unveiling of the Steam Deck earlier this year, it has undoubtedly represented one of the most semi-surprising tech launches of the year. And in terms of consumer demand, well, with the number of pre-orders already placed for the handheld system, it has likely far exceeded even Valve’s…
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Steam Deck Dev Kit Gaming Benchmarks Appear!
Officially launched back in July, the Steam Deck has proven (perhaps surprisingly) to be an exceptionally highly-anticipated upcoming tech release. I mean, the basic premise is certainly interesting. Namely, the ability to be able to play games from your Steam library literally on the go. And yes, Valve has already…
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Valve Patents System that Allows Games to Be Played While Downloading!
While Steam undoubtedly represents one of the biggest gaming portals available on the PC platform, it does come with a pretty notable flaw. Namely, that if you fancy playing something, you have to wait for the game to download and install before you can try it out. Not so much…
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Valve Pays Researcher $7,500 For Finding Unlimited Steam Wallet Bug
As you may be aware, many online companies offer bug bounty programs to people known as white hat hackers. The basic premise of this is that although they do their own in-house security testing (or at least they should), it’s often far more cost-effective and successful to simply open to…
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All Remaining Steam Sale Dates for 2021 Leak Online!
I sometimes get the impression that my Steam Library is a good metaphor for my waistline. I know that I shouldn’t really be doing anything to add to it but sometimes find that the temptation (particularly in the face of a bargain) is just too great to resist. – Admittedly,…
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The Steam Deck is Already Plagued by Scalpers!
Following the official announcement of the Steam Deck last week, the demand for the handheld system has been surprisingly high, with even Valve themselves confirming that not only did their website temporarily shut down due to an overwhelming amount of traffic but that shipments for the system have now likely…
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Steam Launches in China – With Just 53 Games Available!
Earlier this week, Steam was finally given the green light (no pun intended) to officially launch within China. A move that certainly seemed to represent something pretty significant as, as you might be aware, the country has arguably some of the most stringent censorship laws in the world. In fact,…
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