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Now that you've hopefully absorbed everything Valve has announced for the Steam Machine, which is set to begin shipping through a reservation system relatively soon, it's time to look beyond. Valve has officially confirmed FSR 4, AMD's most advanced image upscaling technology, is coming to the Steam Machine.
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The Steam Machine is buyable at last! And it sure costs a pretty penny, as is probably to be expected here in the year of our lord and/or dark lord 2026. We've written a full user-focused review of the Steam Machine separately thanks to yours truly, but also it's important to confess something: I am not a technical expert, and nor will I ever be.
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What is the Steam Machine? I must admit I've spent a good portion of my time with the thing trying to figure that question out. Valve will tell you, as they told us, that it's essentially been made for the people who want to bring their existing PC library - on Steam and elsewhere - to the living room. It's a noble goal, and one the company's been toying with for more than a decade, since its introduction of Big Picture Mode as far back as 2012, through the original wave of third-party Steam Machines that launched in 2015, to the Steam Link and beyond.
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As Valve creeps into the traditionally console-dominated gaming space of the living room with its new Steam Machine, it not only opens itself to comparisons with the consoles that currently reside there, but also with how companies like Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo do business.
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Earlier this month, Valve reaffirmed its commitment to shipping the Steam Machine this summer. Today, Valve has officially announced pricing, initial shipping dates, and many of the remaining details, including Steam Machine's specs, about the living room PC.
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The God of War Laufey reveal was one of the biggest in this year's Summer Game Fest season - and part of a record-breaking State of Play. The surprise reveal generated plenty of discussion but most of the talk centered on the game's new protagonist, Faye.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 is set to release in November with pre-orders going live this week, on 25th June - an occasion Rockstar announced with a short video revealing GTA 6's cover art. That teaser alone has already clocked up 10m views on YouTube. To say anticipation is high for the next mainline GTA instalment would be an understatement.
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Now that Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is out on PC as well as PS5, creator Hideo Kojima is turning his attention to his upcoming projects, which include the mysterious Xbox horror game OD.
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There are a rare few racing games as good as Burnout Paradise. You could argue there aren't any, though the competition for the number one spot is fierce. The game is such a classic it begs the question: Why hasn't anyone been able to make a racer quite as good since? Only a few people on this planet could answer such a question.
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Ultima designer Richard Garriott (AKA Lord British) has a plan to claim back the rights to his legendary RPG series from current owner EA. The trick to doing so? A rather obscure bit of copyright law from around 50 years ago.
The price of the Steam Machine is "significantly more" than Valve would have liked to launch it at, Valve has told Eurogamer, and it hasn't been able to make as many units of the new console-like PC as it wanted to, either.
EA has laid off an unspecified number of staff yet again, its third wave of staffing cuts this year. This comes as the $55bn Saudi Arabian leveraged buyout of the company marches closer.
Capcom has announced a new Spotlight showcase scheduled for later this week. It'll air Thursday, 25th June at 10pm UK time (11pm CEST / 2pm PDT).
As conversations around the increasing prevalence of controversial generative AI tools in game development continue, EA's president of enterprise development Laura Miele has said she believes the tech has led to a "real rise in creativity" among the publisher's studios.
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