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Video game developer and publisher that operates the Steam digital distribution platform and makes gaming hardware like the Steam Deck.
Valve has put Achievement Sets in the Steam client beta, splitting base-game and DLC achievements into separate sets. Each game needs a developer update first; Valve's list of supporting games, as The Verge printed it, has 17 titles.
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Epic put a Linux Epic Games Launcher preview out on Oct. 14 and is rebuilding Easy Anti-Cheat for Fortnite, with no date. The new version requires Secure Boot, TPM 2.0 and signed kernels, VideoCardz reported, so only some Linux machines will qualify.
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Epic Games has released a preview of a rebuilt launcher that it says it vibe coded and calls light on features. The 46% startup lead over Steam comes from a test Epic commissioned, and the backlash so far is posts on X.
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DroidDeck, a free open-source Android app, runs Valve's Arm-native Steam client on Snapdragon phones, Tom's Guide reported. The review ties it to Valve's Steam Frame work, while the performance evidence is one writer's early testing of a few games.
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Reviewers who lived with Valve's headset for a week or three praise the 440-gram fit and log crashes, power loss and a mostly unrated game library. The price assumes you already bought the PC.
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Valve's Timur Kristóf moved AMD's GCN 1.0/1.1 Radeons onto the AMDGPU kernel driver, opening RADV Vulkan and a roughly 30% speedup on decade-old cards. AMD has invested little in these cards for years, so their kernel upkeep now depends almost entirely on one engineer on Valve's payroll.
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Valve's September 2026 Steam survey puts 32GB in 42.22% of sampled PCs, ahead of 16GB at 37.82%, during a memory shortage. That supports a 32GB recommended spec, but close to half the sample still runs 24GB or less, so 16GB stays the practical minimum.
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Steam is on pace for its first $20 billion year after an estimated $5.5 billion third quarter, up 12%, according to Alinea Analytics. Most of it goes to established franchises and free-to-play games, so a new PC launch draws from a much smaller pool.
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Leaked AMD drivers and shipping records show a semi-custom 'Gainsborough' chip on TSMC N3P, with test hardware already shipped for validation. Its tie to a Steam Deck 2 rests mostly on a Final Fantasy codename, so buyers deciding whether to wait for Valve have little more than a name and a shipping record.
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Valve opened Steam Frame reservations at $1,059, and its engineers say standalone play runs the same SteamOS as the Deck on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, with Proton and PC streaming absorbing the compatibility work.
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Valve's new headset starts at $1,059 for 256GB and ships without a charger. The first batch is rationed by a randomised draw that only Steam accounts with a previous purchase can enter.
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The headset ships with monochrome infrared cameras and a PCI-E slot on the front, and the Arcturus module that adds color costs $150 on top. Anyone building mixed reality has to guess how many owners bought it.
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Road to VR's buyer guide for Valve's first standalone headset prices the 256GB model at $1,059 and explains why the bundled Wi-Fi 6E adapter sidesteps the home router that makes PC streaming to a Quest inconsistent.
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Section 14 of the PlayStation Terms of Service sends US disputes to individual arbitration, and Sony is invoking it against plaintiffs who say those same terms are not surfaced clearly enough at checkout to satisfy AB 2426.
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The dump covers thousands of depots from Valve's retired Steam2 servers, including prototypes and playtests that were never shipped, and two Valve watchers say it came off an endpoint that needed no password.
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Dataminer Gabe Follower says the Steam2 archive came out through a publicly reachable legacy endpoint rather than an intrusion. That makes every superseded system still answering reads an inventory problem.
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Eight videos briefly posted to the ARM Steam client confirm a battery in the headstrap, a manual IPD wheel and a swappable light blocker. Valve still has not said what any of it costs.
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An Epic developer told a Discord AMA the native Linux launcher lands after the store overhaul preview. A separate security engineering role aimed at Linux anti-cheat is the harder signal.
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Pokemon Center and Valve are both writing to European customers about an intrusion at fulfillment provider CEVA Logistics. Neither company's own defenses were the deciding variable.
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ShinyHunters says it voice-phished a RingCentral employee. The vendor sells business telephony, and its core platform never broke. The control that failed was a person.
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