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Valve shows you how to mod a Steam Deck — and why you shouldn’t

It’s not every day that a company posts a video tutorial on how to alter its hardware. However, Valve went slightly against the grain on Wednesday when it published a video teardown of the Steam Deck on YouTube. The video presented a perfect how-to guide for modding your Steam Deck hardware, after it launches in […]

Valve Index Is Now The Second Most Used Headset On Steam

The Valve Index is now the second most used headset on Steam, having overtaken the Oculus Rift S. That is according to the latest update to the Steam Hardware Survey, which saw Index grow to 17.5% of overall VR headset usage on Steam. Rift S, meanwhile, fell to 17.21%, making this the first time Valve’s […]

Valve Says Steam Deck Hardware is 'very relevant to our future VR plans'

The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox.  During a Steam Deck hands-on event, Valve was asked about the possibility of seeing Steam Deck’s custom AMD processor in a standalone VR headset. While the […]

Report: Valve is secretly building a Switch-like handheld gaming PC

If at first you don’t succeed, build a Nintendo Switch clone. Valve, the company behind the uber-popular Steam video game marketplace, is reportedly building another piece of mainstream gaming hardware. This time around it’s rumored to be a Switch-like handheld console that runs Linux and that might launch by the end of 2021, according to […]

Game Dev Sues Valve For Anti-Competitive Practices On Steam

Valve has been criticized before about Steam’s PC market dominance, but it looks like that criticism has reached a boiling point, at least for one indie game developer. Wolfire Games has filed a class-action lawsuit against Valve on April 27, according to GamesIndustry.biz. The suit was filed in US US District Court for the Western […]

Interview: Valve On Why Half-Life Alyx Could Only Be Made In VR

Valve is the sort of studio that will only create new entries in its beloved franchises if they feel truly necessary. Each new project must be a step forward, a justified expansion that does something new in the medium instead of retreading old ground simply to advance a narrative cliffhanger. This is the philosophy that […]

Valve Might Be Trying To Get Xbox Game Pass On Steam

You can already get Xbox Game Pass on PC, which despite the name, will provide subscribers with access to hundreds of Windows PC titles. Xbox Games head Phil Spencer has made it clear in the past that he wants Game Pass to be the subscription service not for just Xbox owners, but PC games as […]

How Valve Put Together The Game Changing Ending For Half-Life: Alyx

I can’t overstate how groundbreaking the ending to Half-Life: Alyx truly is. I’ll be spoiling it in this piece, so you’ve been warned. It takes the infamous conclusion of Half-Life 2: Episode Two and throws it out the window, leaving behind the cliffhanger that has held the franchise back from growth for well over a […]

Tobii, Valve & OpenBCI Collaborate on ‘Galea’ VR Brain-Computer Interface

When it comes to interfacing with virtual reality (VR) worlds currently you really only have the option of physical controllers or very basic hand tracking unless you have the cash to buy expensive gloves. The future could very well be in brain-computer interface’s (BCI) like the one Valve, Tobii, and OpenBCI are currently collaborating on, […]