‘99% of the work was already done in a sense’: Valve says it has less to fix with the Steam Machine because they already fixed it on the Steam Deck

Hardware development, much like games, is all about iteration. So, it’s fair to say we wouldn’t have the Steam Machine without the Steam Deck. We recently spoke to Valve engineers Yazan Aldehayyat and Pierre-Loup Griffais, and asked them whether they felt Valve’s ongoing work on the Steam Deck meant there’d be less to fix with…

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Valve says the memory and storage crisis is so bad, it’s not just a problem of pricing, they had to ‘negotiate really hard’ just to secure supply for the Steam Machine

Apologies for yet another downbeat post about PC component shortages. But you don’t often get insight from as significant a player—and one with quite the same track record for a certain brand of transparency—as Valve. It turns out the problem for the company regarding memory and storage for the new Steam Machine hasn’t just been…

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New production runs of Nvidia’s much-loved RTX 3060 finally hit the shelves in Europe, but the price just ain’t right

Rumours of its resurrection rumbled away for months, but Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB graphics card has indeed been churned out from fresh runs of GPU production lines, with models hitting retailers’ shelves in Germany. However, if you were hoping to pick up a cheap, older-generation card with lots of VRAM, then you’re going…

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Persona could be getting the Netflix live action treatment, which means, oh no, Americans will be making it

Atlus RPG series Persona could be getting a live-action Netflix adaptation, according to a new Variety report. The production company responsible for Stranger Things, 21 Laps, will be substantially involved, as will Story Kitchen, another production company with a focus on game-to-film adaptations like Sonic The Hedgehog, as well as forthcoming projects including Tomb Raider,…

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