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Valve announces new Steam Hardware: What the launch means for gaming

Brandon Sutton

21 Nov 2025

In true Valve fashion, the company unveiled a surprise suite of new devices aimed at consumers last week – consisting of a PC-console hybrid, a new virtual reality headset, and a controller (via Valve ).

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MIDiA’s five games trends to watch in 2025

Rhys Elliott

19 Dec 2024

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The year 2024 has been eventful for the games market to say the least. Call of Duty came to Game Pass, Sony released its PS5 Pro console, live-service games faced a reckoning, and gaming has solidified its space at the heart of entertainment.

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Move over, console wars – the battle for AAA portable gaming is coming

Rhys Elliott

25 Nov 2024

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Seemingly every manufacturer in the games space is working on a portable machine. Now, Bloomberg sources claim that Sony has started early work on a portable that plays PS5 games. Microsoft’s head of gaming, Phil Spencer, has already confirmed that Xbox is working on its own portable (also per Blo...

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Gamers aren’t finishing games, and that’s a problem

Rhys Elliott

24 Jul 2024

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Every segment in the games market is facing challenges. While some experts remain optimistic about gaming’s growth pace returning in the near future, the truth is that many arguments for this never-ending growth are shaky.

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Helldivers 2's woes show publishers should nudge, not push, gamers

Rhys Elliott

10 May 2024

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Helldivers 2 is one of the most popular games of the year so far and has been PlayStation’s biggest PC and live-service success story to date. But PlayStation drew the ire of the game’s PC fanbase by announcing it would force Steam players to link their account to a PlayStation Network (PSN) acc...

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Steam is the unlikely winner of the modern console wars – for now

Rhys Elliott

4 Apr 2024

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Thanks to console manufacturers and third-party publishers moving content to Steam, Valve now boasts one of the most diverse AAA offerings on the market, benefitting from new strategies adopted by Xbox and PlayStation.

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Quick Take: Can Viveport Be the App Store of VR?

Zach Fuller

30 Sep 2016

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Viveport, the online store of the HTC Vive VR headset, launches today in 30 countries with a selection of around about 60 titles across the entire pantheon of VR content - from sports to education and including notable experiences such as Wevr’s theBlu , Mars Odyssey and Stonehenge VR .

Why HTC's 10,000 VR Kiosks in China Could Change the Course of VR

Zach Fuller

8 Jul 2016

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HTC have announced they will be delivering over 10,000 pop-up VR kiosks or ‘Experience Sites’ in public places all around China. More than a publicity stunt, the move could prove significant not just in the quest for VR hardware market share but also in changing the strategies of future tech dev...