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Best handheld gaming PC in 2025: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Portable PC PC gaming has officially gone portable, and these handheld gaming PCs are mighty quick.
'S**t's about to get real': The first Steam sale of 2025 is live, and it's all about strategy games
By Andy Chalk published
news RTS leads the way in Steam's Real-Time Strategy Fest, but there are also grand strategy games, 4X, tower defense, city management, and even a typing game.
Deadlock's ranked play has improved quite a bit since its arrival, but a small quirk has left only 75 people down at the bottom rank to battle it out
By Elie Gould published
News Someone's gotta do it.
Valve dev says SteamOS isn't about killing Windows: 'If a user has a good experience on Windows, there's no problem'
By Rich Stanton published
News "It's not a goal in itself to convert users who already have a good experience."
An ambitious Counter-Strike mod to emulate the OG 1.6 experience in Global Offensive has been rejected by Valve after 8 years of development
By Ted Litchfield published
news Some of the Classic Offensive team's Source engine workarounds may be the culprit.
Valve's Steam page currently lists a second mystery game alongside Deadlock, sending Half-Life 3 theorists into another frenzy of speculation
By Rick Lane published
News But before you get too excited, it could just be gift cards.
Team Fortress 2 just had the single biggest trade in its history, with 'the absolute best hat you can get' going for around $40K
By Rich Stanton published
News "It in theory can never be unboxed again and hasn't been able to be obtained in over 10 years."
Valve is changing the way it updates Deadlock 'to help improve our development process', so you can say goodbye to the regular biweekly posts
By Elie Gould published
News "We look forward to fleshing out the game in the new year."
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