Valve unveiled its ambitious portable PC a few weeks ago, and the Steam Deck has turned plenty of heads. The Steam Deck’s appeal is certainly understandable, considering the massive success of the Switch. Valve’s handheld might not be able to run Nintendo games, but it will do something the Switch can’t. It will offer gamers …
When the Steam Deck reaches your door this winter, it’ll run a preinstalled version of Linux that Valve calls SteamOS. The portable console should run all the titles in the Steam store right on top of SteamOS. But what’s great about the Steam Deck is that Valve will not force its Linux version of users. …
Valve announced its own Switch-like console last week. Preorders for Valve’s Steam Deck officially opened last Friday. The device appears to be a big hit for Valve, as the console is sold out well into the second half of 2022. Well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. Valve isn’t charging buyers full price for the …
The worst thing about the Nintendo Switch console is the Joy-Con drift issue. Nintendo might fix your broken controllers, but it’s not ready to deliver permanent fixes. The Nintendo Switch OLED will not feature any Joy-Con redesigns, so the controllers can still drift after plenty of usage. Some Switch owners have taken it upon themselves …
Last week, Valve announced the Steam Deck portable PC and revealed that “preorders” would start on Friday. Valve did not reveal the Steam Deck’s actual release date. It did reveal that the console would be available in December to those who preorder. The Steam Deck “preorder” involves paying $5 upfront, which will be put towards …
Rumors in late May said that Valve was on the verge of unveiling a portable gaming console similar to the Nintendo Switch. Nearly two months later, Valve delivered the Steam Deck. It’s larger and beefier than the Nintendo Switch, but the new gaming rig appears to be intriguing to fans. The strange reservation process began …
Nintendo’s Switch console has been a massive success for the company thanks to the unusual proposition the Japanese giant made gamers. The Switch can be used in tablet mode and in full console mode to play the same amazing Nintendo games that fans love, including the popular Mario franchise. That’s why the Switch gets away …
In order to celebrate the impending release of Half-Life: Alyx in March, Valve has made every main Half-Life game in franchise history free to play on Steam from now through the day the VR title launches. You won’t actually own these games (unless you buy them), but you can add them to your library temporarily …
The last Half-Life game is now more than 12 years old. Valve released Half-Life 2: Episode Two on October 10th, 2007, with the intention of wrapping up the story in a third and final episode. That third episode never arrived, and in the decade since, fans of the first-person shooter franchise have been anticipating any …
Twelve years after Half-Life 2: Episode Two launched, most of us have given up hoping for a new, full-scale Half-Life project. Series creator Gabe Newell and the rest of the team at Valve Corporation have never definitively said that the franchise is over, but after such a long hiatus, and after countless departures of writers …
