PC Gaming
The Steam Frame has a heap of new features to dig into, but I want to focus on one here: foveated streaming. It sounds like a medical issue but I assure you, it’s all about ensuring the Steam Frame’s wireless connection is strong, stable, and appears high quality. The Steam Frame offers a few ways…
In case you somehow missed it, the big PC gaming news of the day is Valve’s new slate of hardware: The Steam Controller, Steam Frame VR headset, and most notable of all (I think, anyway), the Steam Machine, a cubical, console-esque little PC that aims to bring Steam libraries to the living room. It’s a…
With the launch of the Steam Frame, Valve’s new VR headset, SteamOS will be made available for Arm-based systems. This is required to support the new headset, which is using a Snapdragon processor to run games without requiring a tether to a gaming PC. However, it’s also a sign that times are changing, as systems…
Have you ever been bored? Have you ever been like, really bored, bored in the way where it feels like you’ve been removed from participating in the rest of the world, like time is moving differently for you than it’s moving for other people? How about depressed? Have you ever felt like everything you do…
Valve has packed the new Steam Controller with multiple ways to control a PC game from the comfort of your sofa. It has standard thumbsticks (phew), a pair of trackpads, and gyro controls. Three for the price of… well, we don’t know the price of the Steam Controller yet. Though I hadn’t considered gyro controls…
The Steam Machine available in the new year is designed by Valve. It will be sold by Valve, and, as such, it cannot be hastily switched to Windows at the last minute to sell more units. But despite being burned in the past, Valve is keen for its Steam Machine to blaze a trail for…
The Valve Index is a popular headset by most measures, currently used by roughly 15% of players on Steam to play VR. So why is it Valve has killed the Index branding entirely with its latest arrival, a new VR headset called the Steam Frame? Turns out, it’s exactly because Valve doesn’t want that sense…
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…
I’m not a habitual reader of the r/HalfLife subreddit, so I can only assume that it’s not every day you see these sorts of threads dominate its front page: “Today’s the day boys!” “I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE” LET IT BE TRUE!” “THE TOMORROW IS NOW MY BROTHERS” “I’m all in” “I want to believe”…
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…