It's literally them

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It's happening, they spoke to us!

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller ($99)
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Valve recently imported a huge amount of "game consoles" to the United States. Half-Life 3: confirmed!

The search of the imported goods is private but you can look for the keyword "Valve" and get literally pipes + game controllers and game consoles.

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The more you know: Gabe wants to be effectively immortal (which was reported earlier and joked about in their own Aperture Science lab demo game for Deck). But he was also in touch with OpenAI and Musk to progress with his ideas faster...

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Gabe, I see something

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Despite Valve recently imported 50 tons of game consoles to the US and tons (literally) of game controllers in addition to that, it was still not enough.

Steam Controllers were sold out in 30 minutes in some regions and in 2-3 hours in others.

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Memes arrived

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People found out that Steam Controller can occasionally do a Wilhelm scream when dropped.

I'm not even sure if it's true and meme by Valve or a meme by the community and Mandela effect.

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OK, the real sound of Steam Controller

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It seems that the charger Valve made for the new Steam Controller is always on and pointed upwards. In case anyone place even remotely conductive materials on top, the charger will shorten. Yes, your body is also conductive...

This definitely violates several safety regulations in North America and Europe, which most likely going to force Valve to redesign and replace all charges. As of now, one charger went off due to smart watch band placed on top. And now we have the official "we are investigating" response from the company, who will replace the device (with exactly the same one).

Oddly enough, the same exact issue already exists in the charger of other gamepads, like 8BitDo Ultimate 2. But due to limited requirements for such devices, they are being sold without independent testing.

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Hopium, hopium never changes!

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Steam Deck OLED is available again but the price is much higher due to memory shortages... a 2018 CPU architecture and 2021 GPU limited to 15W. That's not ~€920 of goodies.

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Welp, blame no one else then...

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If you already have reputation on Steam, it can make your next game free from Steam Direct Fee. Never heard of it before!

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The funny one, but I have to add context: both of them are odd in a way,

- Gabe invested into AI and with known info it seems he's aiming for eternal digital life. In the meantime, his yachts are not just for swag, he finance marine research. He is super-social, gets along with almost everyone he meets, and therefor his aura seems much friendlier. He's still very much into making as much profit as possible, just wiser.

- Tim hates yachts and was AI-hater for some time. Then last summer he invested billions into AI (when it was too late to invest). He also owns huge sanctuaries, adores nature, and do hikes every week. He is not social, not a fan of crowded places. Every public speech he makes looks like he's in pain. But he wasted half of his fortune to fight Google and Apple (and won) to make them lower the market fee. But he lost against Steam and keep missing the point of it.

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First of all, its illegal
Second, it's brilliant!

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Why?

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Steam Machines starts at $1049/€1039 and is barely able to run high-end games. Basically, no RT, mostly 1080p — not what a living room gamer would prefer in mid 2026. Some games are deliberately targeting RT only on PC and cutting yourself out is a sad choice.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

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Stupid tech takes: Valve said Linus that they can't subsidize the device in any way since they can't guarantee that users will stay on Steam OS and/or buy games...

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