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Xbox co-creator is more interested in Switch 3 than Project Helix because Nintendo hardware is "at least really interesting and cool, even when it fails"

"Even Wii U was interesting and cool," Seamus Blackley argues

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Valve’s Steam Controller launch looks imminent based on new public records — and it might finally give me the perfect excuse to build a custom Steam Machine

Valve may not be ready to launch the Steam Machine just yet, but there's more positive news on its main accessory.

TechRadar

Valve is now sitting on lots of Steam controllers, so releasing them before the Steam Machine is a no-brainer

Valve just received what could be its "first large quantity" of Steam Controller stock, and if we're lucky, it could mean the Steam Machine is inbound.

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A Valve developer has just made it easier to run games on Linux with 8 GB cards thanks to a simple fix

You just need to be on an Arch-based distro, for now.

PC Gamer

The Steam Machine could pull some pretty big moves with just 8GB VRAM, thanks to a savvy Valve engineer

Valve engineer Natalie Vock has come up with a clever way to optimize 8GB VRAM in Linux that could give the Steam Machine a big helping hand.

GamesRadar

PS6 rumors suggest the next console war will be fought on a completely new battlefield, and the Steam Machine might be in prime position

Rumors point to three PlayStation 6 devices launching in the next generation, but this shift in priorities could see Steam Machine steal the win.

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"Gabe's crazy" – Father of Xbox "vastly more excited" about Steam than Project Helix because Valve "f*** up business" and do "weird stuff"

Gabe Newell and the gang are "relentlessly focused on cool games"

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"What else were Steam Deck users to do but create their own solutions?": I watched Valve's Linux-first handheld turn into a Windows 11 experiment in its community

Valve's Steam Deck is a great piece of hardware that runs SteamOS out of the box. What about Windows? Well, it's possible, but not without some help from a community of enthusiasts.

Windows Central

Valve engineer shocks Linux community with game-changing VRAM hack for 8GB GPUs — breakthrough solution turbocharges gaming by prioritizing VRAM for games while background tasks take a back seat

Natalie Vock, a dev on Valve's Linux graphics driver team has introduced new fixes that optimize VRAM usage for games in Linux. Previously, any background task could make the OS evict game data from VRAM and throw it into system memory, but now it'll be able to correctly prioritize the…

Tom’s Hardware

Is Valve prepping its own AI for Steam?

Reference to something called SteamGPT has appeared in a datamined Steam update, which could mean that Valve is bringing in AI to help speed up support requests and to buff anti-cheat. Here's what you need to know.

Windows Central

Half-Life writer was surprised how few FPS games followed Valve's approach to story: "Medal Of Honor, for instance, and Call Of Duty both followed those principles, but it was inconsistent"

You see bits of Half-Life's narrative design in Call of Duty, but much of Valve's influence came in other forms

GamesRadar

Popular Stardew Valley-like Starsand Island removed from Steam for using "visual elements from a classic title" without permission, devs say they've already sent a new build to Valve

"We sincerely apologize for this mistake"

GamesRadar

Valve rumoured to be working on 'SteamGPT' AI bot for support and anti-cheat functions

It definitely won't be anything like GlaDOS...

PC Gamer

Decades ago, Gabe Newell revealed that Super Mario 64 influenced Half-Life, and it seems future Steam god GabeN was a lot better at Nintendo's platformer than Valve's FPS classic

Newell figured somebody needed to "add a deathmatch mode to Mario 64" so he could prove his chops at Valve

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"SteamGPT" mentions in Valve's code flagged by online sleuth, sparking fears of an AI Steam chatbot that will screw up your support requests and hallucinate anti-cheat

Valve hasn't commented on the nature or validity of "SteamGPT"

GamesRadar

Portal 2 devs went through "nasty crunch" to get Valve's all-time classic out the door, partly because they kept "adding stuff" despite deadlines: "My wife was getting really tired"

The GLaDOS effect

Tom’s Hardware

Steam files suggest Valve is developing internal'SteamGPT' AI bot — aimed at tackling customer support tickets and CS2 anti-cheat

Leaked Steam files show that Valve is developing a "SteamGPT" AI bot that will help its employees with customer support and anti-cheat in CS2.

Windows Central

"I know that a lot of PC gamers are resistant to AI": SteamGPT shows up in datamined Steam files, suggesting Valve plans to add AI to help in these two key areas

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Valve admits it's "time to make some bigger improvements" to Steam's mod system, drops massive Steam Workshop update with "completely rewritten" pages

The Steam Workshop should look and run a lot better

TechRadar

This new Steam feature could soon make buying games a lot easier — and it’ll be a great addition for the Steam Machine and custom PCs

The Steam Machine is now on the horizon, and clues in the Steam Client suggest a performance estimator could be coming as well.

Player One

Vision Pro Steam Link App Now in Beta, Will Offer New Gaming Experiences for the Headset

The Steam Link app for the Vision Pro is now in beta and introduces new gaming experiences for the headset.

PC Gamer

Browsing the Steam Workshop's 50 million mods just got better thanks to a redesign that loads faster and works better on mobile and Steam Deck

The week after rolling out a "refresh" for the Steam storefront, Valve is giving the Workshop some long-overdue love.

Reason

New York Wants a Cut of Counter-Strike's Loot Boxes

Attorney General Letitia James says they're a form of illegal gambling. But the state seems more interested in untaxed revenue than consumer protection.

PC Gamer

Valve could well be giving Steam its most useful update ever: Frame rate estimates for games, based on how well they've been running on users' gaming PCs

Power from the people, power to the people.

GamesRadar

Ignoring Valve's Half-Life lessons, Baby Steps dev says trolling players with level design is important, actually

"Why are we intentionally creating this experience that Half-Life is going to such great lengths to avoid?"

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