Valve Articles

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December 04, 2025

Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.

Valve tells Ars its "trying to unblock" limits caused by open source driver issues. ...

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November 25, 2025

Valve’s Steam Machine looks like a console, but don’t expect it to be priced like one

Upcoming gaming box will be priced in line with a similarly specced PC, Valve says. ...

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November 14, 2025

Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.

Tariffs, component volatility, and Valve's tolerance for losses all lead to uncertainty. ...

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November 12, 2025

Valve rejoins the VR hardware wars with standalone Steam Frame

SteamOS-powered headset sports semi-modular design, wireless "low-latency" PC streaming. ...

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November 10, 2025

New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games

But author warns that Direct3D 7 "is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability." ...

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October 23, 2025

CS2 item market loses nearly $2B in value overnight due to “trade up” update

Once rare $14K knife now sells for $7K, some common guns jump from $10 to over $100. ...

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September 24, 2025

Meet the first person to own over 40,000 paid Steam games

Feeling any better about your backlog yet? ...

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September 19, 2025

Steam will wind down support for 32-bit Windows as that version of Windows fades

Change only affects 32-bit Windows 10; Windows 7 and 8 lost support years ago. ...

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September 04, 2025

Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop

Valve's usually stable platform struggles thanks in part to lack of pre-loading options. ...

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