Steam’s Revamped Family Sharing Feature Is Now Out of Beta
Valve announced today that Steam Families, the replacement for Steam Family Sharing, is now out of Beta and available to all users.
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Valve Reveals the Steam Deck, a Switch-like PC
Valve has just revealed a new portable PC that should launch in December 2021, starting at US$399.
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Artifact 2.0 Has Been Cancelled, Artifact Classic Is Now Free
Valve announced today that they are stopping work on Artifact 2.0, and both that unfinished version (now named Artifact Foundry) and the original release (renamed to Artifact Classic) are now free.
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Death Stranding Is Now Playable on Linux via Proton
Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding is now playable on Linux thanks to Valve’s Proton, merely a day after its PC release.
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Half-Life: Alyx Gets Native Linux Port, Vulkan Support and Workshop Integration
Valve has just released a pretty impressive update for Half-Life: Alyx, adding level editing tools, a native Linux port, support for the Vulkan API, and a few other things.
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VR Is Not Dying, and so Far, Half-Life: Alyx Seems to Be the Killer App People Were Expecting It to Be
Reports of the death of VR have been greatly exaggerated.
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Half-Life: Alyx Runs on Source 2, out in March 2020
Valve has just revealed that Half-Life: Alyx is coming to PCVR headsets in March 2020.
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EA Comes Back to Steam, Brings Subscription Service to Valve’s Platform
EA is coming back to Steam, with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order available for preorder today, and EA Access making its way to the platform in the near future.
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The Steam Sale Wishlist Apocalypse Isn’t as Apocalyptic as It Looks
The Steam Summer Sale event had an unintended side effect that seems to be affecting indie developers’ ability to market their games.
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A Hat in Time Uses Upcoming Valve Networking Tools to Add Online Mode
A Hat in Time will get an online party mode on May 10th, when the upcoming Nyakuza Metro DLC drops, and developer Jonas Kaerlev would like players to know that this is only possible thanks to Valve’s help.
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