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Valve could be working on a rival to the Nvidia Shield streaming box

The Nvidia Shield has always been popular with its users, and Valve may be looking to make something similar.

TechRadar

What are your most-played games on Steam, and why have you spent so many hours on them?

Multiplayer shooters, grand strategy games, and MMOs sure do eat up the hours.

PC Gamer

Valve preps mysterious 'Fremont' SteamOS device powered by AMD Ryzen processor — potential Steam Box may sport a Hawk Point CPU with Zen 4 and RDNA 3 graphics

Fremont may be the codename for a new and improved Steam Box, featuring a mobile chip and discrete GPU from AMD.

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Valve publishes Powered by SteamOS brand guidelines — logo readied for third-party hardware bundled with this Linux-based OS

Valve has published branding guidelines which make its intentions to deliver SteamOS 3 to a wide range of third party hardware platforms clearer than ever.

Tom’s Hardware

Valve's new 'Powered by SteamOS' branding has been unveiled, but it's more about clawing handhelds away from Windows than it is about new desktop Steam Machines

Then again, with a Steam Controller 2 potentially around the corner...

PC Gamer

The Steam Deck might be joined by other hardware running SteamOS if Valve's updated brand guidelines are anything to go by — Could the ROG Ally be one of them?

Recently updated branding from Valve suggests third-party hardware running SteamOS could be happening.

Windows Central

Zotac Zone review

Zotac surprises with considerate hardware once again held back by rotten software.

PC Gamer

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Asus ROG Ally may get a major upgrade thanks to the Steam Deck — here's what's coming

Valve's Steam Deck may not be the only gaming handheld officially running SteamOS, as new "Powered by SteamOS" guidelines suggest it will run on more consoles.

Tom’s Guide

Nintendo Switch 2 has new competition — leak claims Samsung is building a handheld games console

Several leaks have arisen that, when put together, indicate Samsung could be developing a new handheld console.

Tom’s Guide

The 10 gaming trends for 2025 that will transform how we play and create

Our expert games writer predicts the gaming trends for 2025, including Nintendo Switch 2, the rise of indie gaming, the impact of generative AI and how Unreal Engine 5 will shake things up .

Creative Bloq

A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'

Ken Birdwell was all about "getting the lighting right."

PC Gamer

Now that Steam Deck has made good on the failed promise of Steam Machines, it looks like Valve is paving the way for third-party devices "powered by SteamOS"

The Steam Machine dream may yet live

GamesRadar

Valve removes pro-Palestinian shooter from Steam after complaint from UK Counter-Terrorism police, dev says 'we see clearly the double standards'

Steam favours a hands-off approach, but in this case its hand was forced.

PC Gamer

Valve stiffed speedrunners by adding an invisible wall in its Half-Life 2 tuneup, so now it's fixed the fix and says 'enjoy'

Fetch my pipe and gravity gun.

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Garry's Mod dev says he didn't want to sell it originally because no one would pay for it – 25 million copies later, he admits he was wrong

We'll never get away from Skibidi Toilet

Benzinga

Antitrust Lawsuit Against Steam Expands To Include All Developers Since 2017

The Steam antitrust case broadens into a class action, targeting Valve's 30% cut and alleged anti-competitive practices.

Player One

Lawsuit Against Valve Becomes Class Action, Could Benefit More Developers

Valve is facing increasing legal pressure after an antitrust lawsuit against it has been granted class-action status.

PC Gamer

The antitrust lawsuit against Steam is now a class action, and that could have big repercussions for Valve

The lawsuit, originally filed in 2021, now encompasses "all persons or entities" who have sold games on Steam since 2017.

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Half-Life 2's anniversary update broke a simple speedrunning strat that was in use for 20 years, so Valve has now fixed the 'fix' in a new patch

The 20th anniversary update included some annoying changes for speedrunners

PC Gamer

Deadlock pros are already playing a better version of Deadlock

The best players have cobbled together a better competitive format that makes me hope Valve is watching.

Tom’s Hardware

Valve seemingly preps Steam Controller 2 and VR controller — "Ibex" and "Roy" controller renders spotted in SteamVR data mine

Valve accidentally leaks renders of in-development controllers through a datamined SteamVR update.

PC Gamer

Valve was going to ship The Orange Box in a white box before staff 'destroyed' the idea, and yes they saw you all doubting Portal before release: 'You guys are gonna eat those words'

"A great example of how Valve dysfunctionally works but works well."

PC Gamer

Half-Life 2 testers horsing around with physics props 'to make the 47th playthrough of the game more interesting' probably had no idea it would result in Gabe Newell launching a garden gnome into space 16 years later

Cratebaby lives.

Windows Central

Why Xbox is running out of time to grow its most CRUCIALLY important and critically underrated gaming feature

Thanks to handhelds like the ASUS ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go, "Xbox Play Anywhere" greatly elevates the likelihood of me playing your next game — and I think more and more Xbox players are coming to feel the same way.

PC Gamer

Valve first came up with the Steam Hardware Survey more than 20 years ago because it wanted to know what specs it should target for Half-Life 2

The first public Steam Hardware Survey came in April 2003, but there were private antecedents used by Valve earlier.

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