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The entire point of the Steam Machine is for people who already have a device but want a convenient way to play those games on the TV, and hey, even that still has the possibilities to pick up newcomers. It's not designed to be a Gaming PC replacement at all.

-not require it. Just like I'm sure it'll take advantage of the new steam controller and some of it's unique features.

Because far less people would be interested in buying a whole device just for one game, exactly like Alyx, except Alyx had a reason to be for VR devices, there is literally no reason to lock this to certain devices and would literally be worse business if they did. It'll take advantage of it-

Right but Half-Life Alyx had a reason to be exclusive, this doesn't. It's like complaining that a film isnt available as a book. They have no reason to lock a regular flatscreen HL to a steamos box. They already own the platform its exclusive to, they would make more money not having it exclusive.

Because that game was made for VR headsets, designed to be played in VR? of course it's VR exclusive. If it was Index exclusive you'd have a point but HLA would not be anywhere near as good if you remove the VR. We know this because you can. The noVR mod shows how the game is far lesser without it.

Highly doubt it. Why would they cannibalise game sales to maybe hopefully push a couple more units? They'll have things that might take advantage of the Steam Machine in game but it would be incredibly stupid for Valve to make HL3 exclusive to it. They're hopefully not that stupid.

I personally prefer the inside out solution as I think VR should be as friction-less as possible, especially if we want to continue to try to make it understandable to the mass market, but it's disappointing to see that they aren't really going to try anything with the Index style again.

Yeah the Frame is not going to be $200-400. At all. They said that the price ceiling is similar to that of the Index, which is insane, but I think base model will be more likely around the Quest 3's price. Which is what it's competing with, fair, but it could've been a lot better.

Steam Hardware The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.

Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:

Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame. 

Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware

thinkin about Cubes

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outfits i styled for kel's birthday! we ended up doing a mix and match

#omori

YouTube video by People Make Games The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6

youtu.be/c9nOwjeznjI

thanks

#omori

This is definitely one of the key reasons for the delay too. You can't fire key employees while in active development and not have development problems. It's absolutely disgusting and they should not be getting away with this. I hope they get reamed in court for this if it holds out to be true.

Jokes aside about me being pissed about the delay, this is actually way worse. You can just union bust like this, this isn't America. gtaforums.com/topic/100418...

>union busts 34 key employees that are essential to games development
>delays the game because of it
>huge pr disaster and possible legal trouble
masterful gambit

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer

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Report: Guy Who Sings ‘Thriller’ Has Bunch Of Non-Halloween Music, Too CLEVELAND—Revealing a vast, forgotten catalog of legitimate pop compositions, a report released Thursday about novelty musical act Michael Joseph Jackson found that the man who recorded the perennial ...

Report: Guy Who Sings ‘Thriller’ Has Bunch Of Non-Halloween Music, Too

so actually make it a paid product instead of having this psuedo free mode that fucks you in the ass? I don't get this argument, either it's a paid product, or i'm paying for it with the data they're harvesting off me. Right now it's a stupid weird inbetween that has no reason to exist.

a realistic drawing of a rabbit stands next to a dreamcast controller text: she can't play dreamcast.

Day 23 #art

For Sale: Spartan Armor, Lightly Worn. Selling to Help Save Multi-Trillion Dollar Company I am looking for a new home for my 2001 MJOLNIR Mark V Assault Armor (or as you normies call it, Spartan Armor). This set…

For Sale: Spartan Armor, Lightly Worn. Selling to Help Save Multi-Trillion Dollar Company

"cortisol" would be a beautiful name for a girl

Image "Konqi opens the magic box" by Arctaxia.

Happy Birthday to us 🎂! KDE is 29!

Today KDE is 29 years old and we are celebrating kicking off our yearly #fundraiser. Donate and make KDE's wishes come true.

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I know about beastieball, and it's on my to play list, and yet I still read this as "breastieball" first 😭😭

‘It’s another colonial plan against the Palestinians.’

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil joins @mehdirhasan.bsky.social to discuss the Gaza peace plan and lays out his vision for a fair peace settlement between Israel and Palestine.

Watch the full episode: zeteo.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

my demo is in #nextfest though and it's not ai slop check it out :3
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