Valve just quietly redefined what PC gaming can be all while an increasingly delusional Microsoft desperately tries to tell everyone their PC is an Xbox now

On the face of it, the latest announcement from Valve seems pretty straightforward. The reductionists will tell you all it’s unveiled is a last-gen gaming PC (that better be cheap), a controller that’s just two halves of a Steam Deck jammed together (like all the mockups that have been doing the rounds since the handheld…

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Responding to problems in a live-service game is like having a ‘big clock,’ says Battlefield 6 director: ‘You measure and value your time to the player’ so they know you’re paying attention

There was a brief, beautiful moment when everybody seemed happy with Battlefield 6. Sure, there was some grousing about map sizes and progression. But its return to modern-military gunplay with a big lick of destruction won over even the most cynical of multiplayer FPS heads. But then its battle royale mode Redsec came out, and…

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I’ve tried the Steam Frame and I’m now ready to ditch cables from my virtual reality set-up forever

I’m stood facing a large window in a room overlooking Bellevue, Washington, though I’m not taking in the sights. I’m wandering around an abandoned building as headcrab zombies shuffle around me. The other people in the room understand this experience all too well—this is Valve HQ and I’m testing out the company’s new VR headset…

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