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Steam Hardware - Steam Machine launches today! - Steam News
All the details on how to sign up, plus some background on how we got here.

Steam Store
Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.

Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow
The Steam Frame is a Trojan horse carrying Arm’s gaming future.

'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam
'You work six years on a game, you line up press and events for the launch, and then some guy at Valve clicks on a checkbox and blocks everything.'


Steam Deck™
Steam Deck™ is the most powerful, full-featured gaming handheld in the world.

Introducing Open Souls PBC and our historic mission
The New Steam Hardware is AMAZING!!

Rabrg/artificial-life
A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction
dev scoops: some narrative advice a Valve person gave me once
Many years ago when I was a tiny baby making InFlux (of which there is now a Redux), I had no idea what I wanted to do with it narratively, if anything. Because, from a young age, he had humoured me, I emailed Gabe Newell about it, knowing he was in the habit of either replying or forwarding to someone he thought might reply. I got some good thoughts back from David Speyrer, who’s been at Valve since ’99, which I shall publish here now because at a party last night someone was interested.

The Steam Machine's ePaper Faceplate Is Open Source And Full Of Possibility
Valve made the eInk Steam Machine faceplate open source to see what the community could do. We're already seeing results.

InterfaceX26 — Sale & Showcase
InterfaceX26 brings together 150+ developers to tag Fake OS games on Steam, with a week-long sale and a live showcase of exclusive reveals.

» The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 3: The Sims The Digital Antiquarian
I don’t think people realize how much tactical and strategic forethought goes into their daily lives. There’s a whole subconscious time-efficiency layer in our lives. In essence, real-time strategy is our lives.
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI

The Git-ification of the World — Tim Morrissey
Why AI conquered software first, and what that tells us about which industries are next.
