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Is Steam Deck 2 secretly the next-gen PlayStation handheld? Valve and Sony's rumored partnership could make it happen, and I'm all for it

A Sony and Valve partnership could make the next-gen PlayStation gaming handheld I want, and the Steam Deck 2 could kick it all off.

Tom’s Guide

Half-Life 2 just got a patch that fixes a progress-blocking teleporter bug and makes a train easier to race

Full steam ahead.

PC Gamer

"It might be porn games now, but they won't stop there": Game devs join players and artists rallying against credit card companies after mass NSFW game delisting

Meanwhile, Itch posts and hastily deletes an endorsement of AI-generated messaging

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With "gracious permission from Valve," Garry's Mod update adds "most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content" to remove "majority" of infamous pink and black missing textures

A welcome GMod patch after 19 years

GamesRadar

At long last and 'with gracious permission from Valve,' Garry's Mod now contains 'most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content' even if you don't own those games

Players should no longer see pink checkerboards or giant ERROR models when they "play on community maps that expect you to have this content."

PC Gamer

The Steam Deck 2 and a home console are reportedly in the works – and Sony may be helping to turn the handheld into the portable PlayStation game device I really want

Speculation regarding a Steam Deck 2 and a dedicated home console from Valve has resumed, with hints of a quiet collaboration with Sony, and the potential of AMD's upcoming Zen 6 APU powering the console.

TechRadar

Steam Deck 2 rumored to be in the works — and it may arrive with a massive AMD APU upgrade

Valve may already be working on its highly anticipated Steam Deck 2, as rumors suggest it could arrive with a huge AMD APU upgrade.

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Steam’s Latest Crackdown On Sex Games Highlights An Alarming New Trend

Steam removed a wave of adult games from its storefront, and the results could be much darker than you think.

Inverse

Valve billionaire Gabe Newell says businesses should "listen to your customers and focus on them," putting employees, partners, and customers before capital

The lead behind Steam gives potential entrepreneurs advice

GamesRadar

Valve icon Gabe Newell says "AI is going to be a cheat code" and doubles down on new tech: "Figure out how to use AI to do anything better" across "pretty much every single business"

"That all seems super obvious," says the Steam billionaire

GamesRadar

Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there

Everyone hated that.

PC Gamer

Sending a Steam sticker 'burned through a month of mobile data in five minutes' complains unhappy gamer

A Steam Chat user who “burned through a month of mobile data in 5 minutes” blames Valve's animated stickers.

Tom’s Hardware

Valve boss and superyacht enthusiast Gabe Newell says pitching VCs is a "deeply distracted" way to make money: "If you're creating value for people, the capital will come your way"

"The focus should always be on your customers, and on your partners, and on your employees"

GamesRadar

Steam gaming finally comes to RISC-V — AAA titles like The Witcher 3 and Crysis now playable thanks to revamped emulation tool

Linux developers have managed to get Steam games running on RISC-V-powered platforms using a refined x86 emulator.

Tom’s Hardware

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The brainbox behind Valve's Steam Labs says the number of Steam releases featuring GenAI in 2025 is 1 in 5, with 7% of all games on there now incorporating it: 'We’ve octupled last year’s figure'

But there's still "a vocal anti-AI sentiment among artists and gamers who simply won’t buy games with this stuff in."

GamesRadar

Valve confirms pressure from banks and card companies is to blame for the storefront axing adult Steam games: "Loss of payment methods would prevent customers from being able to purchase other titles"

The company is removing "certain" titles only

PC Gamer

Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam

It's not a great precedent, that's for sure.

PC Gamer

This Redditor says it wasn't even that difficult to get a sub-$100 broken Steam Deck working again with parts from an old Nintendo DS Lite: 'not that hard at all'

And now it's fit with Nintendo DS Lite shoulder buttons, amongst other Frankenstein fixes.

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Multi-billionaire Gabe Newell says the whole startup culture of pitching VCs makes no business sense: 'A great way of destroying money and wasting peoples' time'

"The key is to ignore all the distractions."

GamesRadar

Valve boss Gabe Newell shares his "daily routine," which is shockingly like his Steam God persona: "I get up, I work, I go scuba diving, work some more" then "go on a second scuba dive or I go to the gym"

"I work seven days a week"

GamesRadar

Valve's Gabe Newell predicts AI will lead to a "funny situation" where "people who don't know how to program" could be "more effective" than people "who've been programming for a decade"

From his Steam throne, Valve billionaire says businesses should just "listen to your customers and focus on them"

Windows Central

Steam takes down tons of porn games, cracks down on "certain kinds of adult-only content" — here's why, and its new policy (UPDATE: Valve responds)

Porn games have been on Steam for years now, but many just got taken down from the platform after a recent policy change. Here's Valve's new rule.

PC Gamer

Gabe Newell's daily routine is 'get up, work, go scuba diving,' says he's been 'retired for a long time' but works 7 days a week: 'The things I get to do every day are super-awesome'

"I'm working from my bedroom as you can tell."

GamesRadar

The best Steam Deck games worth playing in 2026

From Baldur's Gate 3 to Stardew Valley, these are the 15 best Steam Deck games to play in 2026

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CS2 skin collectors can finally breathe a sigh of relief thanks to new Steam feature

Skins economy is finally under protection.

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