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I've just seen my dream gaming machine: a modder has combined an Xbox Series X, PS5, and Switch 2 into one mega-console, and I only wish I could buy it

Gamers, here's your dream console, which you could have if Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo joined hands, but we all know that's never happening.

"I can tell you personally that we are not getting out of VR," says Meta Developer Advocate just one week after the brand laid off more than 1,000 Reality Labs employees

One Meta employee has broken silence on X, saying that the company isn't abandoning VR entirely despite mass layoffs to the brand's Reality Labs workforce.

Painkiller's creator jokes that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's team of newbies has 'ruined' his worldview: 'I don't know what to believe anymore'

Painkiller's creator jokes that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's team of newbies has 'ruined' his worldview: 'I don't know what to believe anymore'

"There's an incredible amount of smart decisions that allow them to make a game that looks AAA."

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Steam Offers Two Limited-Time Free Games To Keep Permanently Ahead Of 22 January Deadline

Valve's Steam platform is giving away Crown Champion and Battle Simulator: Counter Stickman for free to keep forever if claimed by 22 January.

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Valve softens Steam AI disclosure to distinguish "efficiency gains" from "the use of AI in creating content that is shipped with your game"

Steam's submission process has changed slightly

New Half-Life Game Takes a Dark Turn as it Puts Players on the Wrong Side

A new Half-Life game flips the franchise on its head by letting players experience the story from the villain's perspective.

International Business Times UK

Steam now lets you gift 'complete the set' bundles to your pals, including relevant discounts

Now I just need to make some friends.

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Adobe Photoshop spotted running on Linux with a Windows compatibility layer fix — Creative Cloud's most killer apps could escape Microsoft and Apple exclusivity

Adobe Photoshop spotted running on Linux with a Windows compatibility layer fix — Creative Cloud's most killer apps could escape Microsoft and Apple exclusivity

Are Adobe's apps some of the only killer software keeping users on Windows 11? That might change soon, as a WINE breakthrough has Photoshop running on Linux.

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How to dual-boot Windows and SteamOS on Steam Deck — the best method for native Game Pass and anti-cheat support

How to dual-boot Windows and SteamOS on Steam Deck — the best method for native Game Pass and anti-cheat support

This guide explains the easiest and safest way to dual boot Windows and SteamOS on Steam Deck, covering partitioning, drivers, boot fixes, and common pitfalls to avoid data loss.

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Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes

Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes

Linux can now handle Adobe Creative Cloud-era installers thanks to a series of patches built by PhialsBasement, an open-source developer who has fixed longstanding HTML and JavaScript rendering issues, alongside XML parsing errors in Wine. This enables Photoshop 2021 and even 2025 to run on the platform "butter smooth."

Tom’s Hardware

Steam updates AI disclosure form to specify that it's focused on AI-generated content that is 'consumed by players,' not efficiency tools used behind the scenes

Steam updates AI disclosure form to specify that it's focused on AI-generated content that is 'consumed by players,' not efficiency tools used behind the scenes

The tweak addresses the fact that generative AI tools have been stuffed into just about every piece of software professionals use.

Developers Will Face Fewer Limits on Steam Machine Verification

Developers Will Face Fewer Limits on Steam Machine Verification

Definitely makes up for the odd name.

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Excitement for Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters raised and subsequently dashed by Steam glitch: "Don't do that, don't give me hope"

Excitement for Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters raised and subsequently dashed by Steam glitch: "Don't do that, don't give me hope"

Valve's storefront strikes again

Argentina to Get First CS2 Major as Buenos Aires Confirmed for 2027

Argentina to Get First CS2 Major as Buenos Aires Confirmed for 2027

Buenos Aires and Shanghai set to host 2027 CS2 Majors.

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Valve just revealed the Steam sales and events for the rest of 2026, and besides the discounts I'm looking at the Party-Based RPG Fest to help satisfy those post-Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 cravings

Prepare your wallet AND your free time

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Meta isn't giving up on VR, but it just evaporated any goodwill it had left

Meta laid off most of its first-party development studios and seemingly shuttered developer funding, leaving many to wonder what's next for the Quest.

Forget the remaster — 2000's Deus Ex is still a masterpiece that you should play in its original form

And it runs on Valve's Steam Deck

Here's one big benefit to Hytale not being on Steam: its refund policy is way better than Valve's

You can play for longer before deciding whether or not you want a refund.

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Meta just killed some of its best Quest 3 game studios — and convinced me to buy a Steam Frame instead of a Quest 4

Meta just closed several VR studios, but VR gaming isn’t dead yet (I hope).

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Valve's Steam Machine will have "fewer constraints" for games to be Verified than Steam Deck — plus, an explanation for that weird Steam Controller puck

Valve's new Steam Machine will have "fewer constraints" for getting games Verified than the Steam Deck does, which is good news for game devs.

Meta closing its Deadpool VR, Resident Evil 4 VR, and Asgard's Wrath studios is bad news for Quest 3 owners, but plays right into Steam Frame's hands

Meta has shut down three of its most significant VR game studios. While that's not great news for Quest 3 owners, it's excellent news for Valve's Steam Frame.

Tom’s Hardware

Steam Machine to have fewer 'Verified' badge constraints — Valve says Verified on Steam Deck titles expected to run smoothly on upcoming PC console

Valve designer Lawrence Yang confirmed that 'Verified on Steam Deck' games will also work well on the Steam Machine, giving gamers a ton of titles that will work well with the console right on launch.

Steam has finally got rid of those goddamn clown awards

Begone, and never blight my forums, reviews, or guides again.

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Valve's Steam Deck suffers the same problem as the Xbox Ally, and the solution might be a modern manufacturing impossibility — Sony nailed it 16 years ago

Handhelds are a modern marvel, but they're getting way too big. Is the PSP Go an example of what we should have done, or is that space filled by smartphones?

"Steam is winning with its ease of use" but not on quality, says new GOG owner pondering how to "take the market" from Valve: "We don't release hundreds of games daily, 95% of which are really not super high quality"

"We can do more for classic retro and modern classics"

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