Tag: Valve
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Gameface Labs – Worlds First Standalone VR Console?
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Gameface Labs, heard of them? Probably not but they may end up slipping off the tongue as easily as Occulus or SteamVR once available to the general public. The company, which first started in 2009 has a goal, which is almost fully realised; the first standalone VR console. The device itself is powered by Nvidia’s…
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Stream Steam To Your Samsung TV
If you have a Steam account and want to stream Steam to a TV this is now possible thanks to the new Steam Link app. There is one caveat though; streaming via the app will require a Samsung Smart TV. The app is in Beta at present and can be found in the Samsung app…
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Steam Controller Finally Available for Pre-order only $50/£40
It’s been almost two years since we first saw a concept for the steam controller, Valve has now shown us the final version of the Steam Controller. Here it is: “With one-to-one positioning, the controller can virtualize familiar controls, like a trackball, a mouse, or a scroll wheel, providing a degree of precision that controllers…
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Heroes Of The Storm Launches Tomorrow
The MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) genre has fast become one of the biggest money makers in the gaming industry, but a lot of people may not be in the loop about just where it started. The original MOBA arguably was DOTA, or ‘Defense Of The Ancients’, which came out originally as a mod for…
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Steam to Monetize Mods
Valve have been fairly tight lipped, aside from a few menial whispers about the ability to monetize a heap of community modifications. Starting with one of the most highly modded games on Steam is Bethesda Softwork’s triumphant RPG The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The process supposedly hands over a great deal of control to the…
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AR And VR To Hit $150 Billion By 2020
Augmented and Virtual Reality devices are starting to saturate the market – both technologies have been predicted to take the market by storm by the year 2020. According to Tim Merel, the managing director of digital M&A firm Digi-Capital , the A/V Reality market may be worth $150 billion dollars at that point in time. Products…
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HTC and Valve Reveal Vive VR Headset
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We’re not usually blown away by products, but when we saw Valve’s latest designs for the Steam Controller we were quite stunned. The secretive company has already developed an alternative to thumb sticks in the form of haptic sensor pads so minute and accurate they can also function as speakers, but behind the scenes Valve…
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Steam Machines – Half Life 3 Confirmed
Let me start by saying Half Life 3 has not been confirmed that was an inflammatory title designed to get your attention, I’m sorry but it’s not a complete lie, we will get to that. First off though, steam has finally fulfilled one of its promises, it announced its plans for the long-overdue Steam Machines.…
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Crimean App Devs Hit By Sanctions Crisis
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The ongoing sanctions crisis in the Crimea is the result of last year’s violent conflict within the Ukraine, and as a result of the intervention of Russia and the following acquisition of the small region of the Crimea, sanctions were put in place on the huge nation. The thing about the situation that most worries…
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Valve Finally Finishes Steam Controller
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Valve’s Steam Controller is go, with beta run models going out for testing from the company. The Steam Controller has languished in development for many months now, going through various iterations and layouts as Valve has been painstakingly weighing up the pros and cons various design choices for the final model. But what can we…
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Valve E3 2014 – Alienware Steam Box Revealed
We’ve been talking about Steam boxes for a while now, and while Valve has delayed the Steam Box Controller until 2015, there are a lot more exciting things coming from Steam and Valve in the meantime. For example, this fantastic Alienware Alpha Steam Box, which was seen the other day at E3 2014. The first…
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Valve’s VR Headset Back in Shiny New Form
Since Oculus was acquired by Facebook it would seem Valve have stepped in and began working on its own VR unit, first seen in 2012 but then put on hold when steam decided to focus their time on supporting projects like Oculus. It’s come a long way since 2012. It is back in its new…