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Tech NewsWhy Won’t Steam Approve These Games Supporting Hong Kong Protestors?
Last year Valve proclaimed that it would allow virtually any game on its Steam service, so long as the game wasn’t illegal or “straight up trolling”—but activist-minded developers who have made games about the Hong Kong protests have realized that, perhaps, there are other ways to get barred from the gaming platform. Two developers recently … Continued
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io9GamesIf You Collect Doomed Technology, Valve Is Now Selling Off the Steam Controller For $5
Valve’s Steam Box consoles weren’t the runaway success that the gaming giant hoped they’d be, but the accompanying Steam Controller still stands out as a truly innovative gamepad design. However, the time has come for it to ride off into the sunset, and Valve is now clearing out the last production run of the controllers … Continued
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io9GamesTerrorists Win
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive came out all the way back in 2012—though it still has a large player base and its tie-ins with the Steam Community marketplace have remained active long after developer Valve’s attention mostly went elsewhere. Patch notes from Monday flagged by Vice News indicate that may have become a big problem, with the … Continued
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io9GamesSteam Is About to Drop Official Support for Ubuntu
Valve is dropping official support for Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases for its mega-popular Steam video game distribution platform, per Engadget, as the upcoming version of the OS will eliminate updates to 32-bit x86 components. According to Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais, the company will “evaluate ways to minimize breakage for existing users,” though it will also … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe Most Interesting Thing About Valve’s Fancy New VR Headset Might Be Its Controllers
About a month ago, Valve teased that it was working on its own VR headset separate from the HTC’s Vive and Vive Pro, but still compatible with all the Steam VR games that are currently available. Now, Valve has finally released a ton of details about the Index, including some of its new and unusual … Continued
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io9GamesValve Says Game Devs Can Now Put Anything on Steam Unless It’s Illegal or ‘Trolling’
Valve, the company behind the Steam platform that has achieved a near-monopoly on PC game sales, issued a blog post on Wednesday clarifying its content policies after it removed a mass shooting-themed game titled Active Shooter from its store in late May. According to Valve’s Erik Johnson, from now on the company will allow basically … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityReport: Steam Had a Bug for 10 years That Could Allow Hackers to Take Over Your PC
A researcher at security firm Context has published the details of an exploit they found in PC gaming giant Steam’s desktop client. The nasty bug has reportedly been around for the last 10 years and left millions of users’ PCs open to being remotely commandeered by hackers. Context’s Tom Court published his findings on Wednesday … Continued
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Apple Just Killed the Ability to Stream Games From Steam to Your iPhone
Valve’s anticipated app designed to let you stream games and movies from the Steam platform to your iPhone or iPad has been rejected by Apple, despite the company approving it earlier in the month. As with Valve’s Steam Link box, the app would have allowed you to stream games from your PC directly to your … Continued
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Valve: Your Bitcoin Isn’t Any Good on Steam Anymore
Valve’s Steam, the digital distribution platform which enjoys near-monopolistic control of the entire PC gaming industry, has stopped accepting bitcoins as a form of payment due to the currency’s volatility and increasingly unacceptable processing fees. In a blog post on Wednesday, Steam wrote that “In the past few months we’ve seen an increase in the … Continued
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Oculus Backtracks on DRM and Allows the HTC Vive to Play Rift Games Again
Games exclusivity is common place for consoles. Master Chief is on Xbox and Nathan Drake is on PS4. That’s the way it is. But for VR, many fans and developers want things to be more open, so gamers can able games on any headset they want. Today, Oculus’ latest update removes a perviously controversial DRM … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidCounter-Strike on Android Wear Just Barely Works
Sixteen years ago, you needed a reasonably powerful computer to run Counter-Strike. Now you can play it on a damn smartwatch, although you’ll need to bring a pretty lose definition of “play” along for the ride. While it’s miraculous that Android Wear is able to run CS at all, the game is far from perfect. … Continued
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Let’s Hope Valve’s Vive VR Is as Great as Its Setup Instructions
Unlike most of my colleagues, I haven’t had the chance to try HTC and Valve’s Vive Pre virtual reality headset. I hear it’s good, but it could be another overhyped disappointment like The Phantom Menace. But if these adorable little GIFs are a VR trailer of sorts, I’m hoping for a blockbuster. Look at them. … Continued
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Steam Link Review: Convenient, Cheap, and Flawed
Despite its simple appearance, the Steam Link–Valve’s first hardware exploration into your living room–isn’t for the light-hearted gamer. For $50, it’s a perfect complement to your current gaming setup–only if your current setup is already pretty much perfect. What Is It? The Steam Link is a tiny block that’s kind of like a Chromecast, or … Continued
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Where Would You Put Your VR Rig?
VR is a technology that has not had a chance to invade our homes quite yet. So while a bunch of companies are in the midst of designing VR products, no-one really knows where or how they would fit into the Average American Home™. To try and get some information on how people would use … Continued
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Valve’s Virtual Reality Headset is Delayed
It seemed like the amazing HTC Vive virtual reality headset would be the first to market—ahead of Sony’s Morpheus and the Oculus Rift. That’s not necessarily happening. According to a new press release, consumers probably won’t be getting their hands on Valve VR until 2016. Shame. While originally, the Vive was set to ship this … Continued
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Tech NewsToday’s the Day You Can Pay for a Steam Machine
Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo will do their damnest to sell you on PlayStation, Xbox, and Wii. But maybe, you’ll have already spent your money on an alternative game console: a Steam Machine. Today, you can pre-order the fabled Steam Controller, the Steam Link streamer, and one of two different Linux-based gaming PCs. And—if you do … Continued
