SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC ‘because right now, it’s very, very tuned for Steam Deck’

Where the hell is SteamOS? That was one of the key questions I wanted answered when I sat down with Valve’s Lawrence Yang and Yazan Aldehayyat, two of the longest serving members of the Steam Deck team. As always, the answer is “soon” but interestingly Valve is looking to make it available to other handhelds…

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WoW director says its most controversial new class specialization is OP because it had to be: ‘The community is naturally skeptical of things they don’t understand’

Blizzard knew that its controversial new augmentation evokers—the first support class ever in World of Warcraft—were going to be overpowered. That choice was “deliberate,” the game’s director told us in a BlizzCon interview, although he added that “obviously they came out the gates too strong.” Augmentation evokers dropped like a bomb into WoW last summer,…

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World of Warcraft director says players who pay for early access to the next expansion won’t have a ‘long-term advantage’

World of Warcraft: The War Within is the first WoW expansion where purchasing a more-expensive edition gets you into the new content more quickly. The announcement caused an immediate controversy, but the game’s director claims it will not ultimately affect players’ progression relative to each other. A standard version of the pack, coming out next…

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Good news, terrible news: You don’t have to launch Modern Warfare 2 to launch Modern Warfare 3 anymore, but now you can’t launch Warzone without first launching Modern Warfare 3

Activision’s rollout of the new “Call of Duty HQ” launcher has been anything but elegant. The HQ, which is really just a rebranded frontend for a single CoD game, is the only way to launch the new Modern Warfare 3, and until yesterday, that process was a real slog. To play MW3, you had to…

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