The rumours about Half-Life 3 might not have come true but Valve has announced three new hardware devices, while hinting about Steam Deck 2.

If there’s one attribute that’s consistent across all the most influential and admired companies in the games industry, it’s being weird and uncommunicative (okay, that’s two attributes). Whether it’s Nintendo, Rockstar Games, or even Sony it’s never clear what they’re thinking and it’s always impossible to predict them, and that’s certainly true for Steam owners Valve.

Many younger gamers will probably not even realise they used to make their own video games, with classics such as Half-Life and Portal, but while they seem to have left that life behind them, they have continued to dabble with gaming hardware, most obviously Steam Deck and various VR

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