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Microsoft focusing on handheld gaming support with new Xbox compact mode

Microsoft has added a new UI update to its Xbox app that shrinks the left sidebar to save screen space. It was made specifically for small screens on handheld gaming devices, so the left sidebar doesn't get in the way of the main page.

Tom’s Hardware

The Steam Deck is Valve's best-selling product once again, and all it took was a discount and an upgrade

Valve's Steam Deck has reclaimed its place as the top seller in the Steam Library thanks to the launch of the new OLED version and price cuts on the older LCD versions.

Tom’s Hardware

Bethesda responding to negative Starfield reviews is no surprise, say indie devs who do the same: "This is becoming industry standard"

"It makes a big difference when it comes to the algorithm"

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Is This The End Of The Overwatch League? A Key Moment In The Future Of Esport

In 2017, franchise teams invested $20 million each for a slot in the Overwatch League, with eight expansion slots later sold for $35 million each.

International Business Times UK

Cyber Monday Deal: Get the Asus ROG Ally Handheld Gaming PC for $170 Off

Asus's ROG Ally, the best handheld gaming PC alternative to Valve's Steam Deck, starts at $449.99 ($170 off) in this incredible Cyber Monday deal at Best Buy.

Inverse

In under 6 weeks, co-op hit Lethal Company passes Baldur's Gate 3 and Resident Evil 4 to become the highest-rated Steam release of 2023

The viral co-op horror game has well and truly exploded

GamesRadar

This Nintendo Switch-sized handheld runs PC games, and it's down to its lowest ever price

Amazon has knocked 33% off the Ayaneo Air Pro with an exclusive Prime Member Black Friday deal, and it's worth considering over other handhelds.

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Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit

Newell had requested a remote deposition in the Wolfire v. Valve case because of concerns about contracting Covid-19.

PC Gamer

Steam just made life easier for PC gamers who use a PS5 DualSense controller

Confused about DualSense controller support in Steam games? You won’t be any longer.

TechRadar

Steam finally gets full PS5 DualSense controller support

At last Steam has made it easy for you to find games to play with your DualSense controllers

Valve 'accidentally' leaks the earliest Left4Dead prototype, and it was a Counter-Strike mod all along

Zomb has been planted.

PC Gamer

Left 4 Dead could've had player classes—but the game's co-lead put his foot down: 'no, that is the wrong way to go'

"I don’t know how many times where I was told to make [Left 4 Dead] more like Alien Swarm."

PC Gamer

25 years later, this Half-Life scientist finally bites it as Gabe intended

"We wanted to fix this for the 25th Anniversary update but other stuff took priority".

PC Gamer

Valve went back to Half-Life to fix one decades-old bug with a new update

The new patch follows after the huge anniversary update last week

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Left 4 Dead had such a rocky start that Gabe Newell wanted to play Counter-Strike instead

Left 4 Dead co-lead recalls when Gabe Newell asked him, "why don't I just play Counter-Strike instead."

GamesRadar

Left 4 Dead writer says he ended up leading the project by accident: "No one ever told me I'm running it!"

Chet Faliszek never signed up to head up production on the original Left 4 Dead

PC Gamer

The reason we got Left 4 Dead 2 as a standalone game was because the first one 'was such a broken thing that nobody wanted to touch it'

The first Left 4 Dead was more delicate than it first appeared.

GamesRadar

Left 4 Dead was so busted at launch that it forced a sequel barely 12 months later: "such a broken thing that nobody wanted to touch it"

Valve built up such a technological debt that it had to start over

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Left 4 Dead's first internal playtest was so disastrous, Gabe Newell asked its lead: 'Why don't I just play Counter-Strike instead?' then 'made me watch him play it'

The game was originally built around four vs. four PvP, but it was "a mess."

PC Gamer

'Today is the end of Steam': Argentina and Turkey floored by new Steam price hikes as high as 2900%

Steam's new pricing policy for Latin America and the MENA region came in yesterday.

Tom’s Hardware

Steam finally adds official support for DualShock and DualSense controllers, lists specific controller support for games

GamesRadar

Gabe Newell says games don't need to be realistic: "I have never thought to myself that realism is fun"

"In the real world, I have to write up lists of stuff I have to go to the grocery store to buy"

PC Gamer

Half-Life's 25th anniversary celebrations have caused a resonance cascade in its Steam player-count, surging to a new all-time high over the weekend

Foreseen Consequences.

GamesRadar

Echoing that fake Miyamoto quote, Gabe Newell says: "Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever"

Valve delayed Half-Life by a whole year, and it stands by that decision all these years later

PC Gamer

Gabe Newell on making Half-Life's crowbar fun: 'We were just running around like idiots smacking the wall'

"It really goes back to that theory of fun."

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