Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 25, 2024)

Best of the best (Image credit: Larian Studios) 2024 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably…

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Valve first came up with the Steam Hardware Survey more than 20 years ago because it wanted to know what specs it should target for Half-Life 2

The Steam Hardware Survey has become a critical resource for the games industry, allowing curious enthusiasts or practical-minded developers to get a sense of how the average PC gamer enjoys the hobby. To hear Valve senior engineer Jay Stelly tell it in Half-Life 2’s new 20th anniversary developer commentary, the Steam Hardware Survey first came…

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I’m glad I stuck with Dragon Age: The Veilguard, because it builds to a suicide mission right out of my beloved Mass Effect 2

The YouTube algorithm keeps threatening me with videos about how the new Dragon Age is a crime against Gamers. I haven’t watched any of them, but my recommendations still overflow. Even people with less overheated opinions have been down on its relatively chill vibes and easygoing nature. Just quietly, I’ve enjoyed most of my time…

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Game of Thrones actor and former World’s Strongest Man Hafþór Björnsson has hoisted 996 lbs, 283 Petabytes, and about $32 million worth of next-gen SSDs in what has to be the most expensive deadlift in history

First reported by Tom’s Hardware, Icelandic strongman Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson⁠—who won the 2019 World’s Strongest Man competition and played Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane in Game of Thrones⁠—has completed a 996 lbs “deadlift of data,” hoisting thousands of next-generation, 128 terabyte SSDs at the SD24 computing conference. With each drive likely to command north of $10,000…

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