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Reservations Go Live for Valve's Steam Frame VR Headset. An Experiment in Progress? (slashdot.org)

2026-09-15 | by Posted | get Meta Quest 2 VR Headset → | tags: steam frame, valve, steam os

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Valve's Steam Frame launches at $1,059, and Half-Life: Alyx comes free (techspot.com)

2026-09-14 | by Daniel Sims | get Valve Index VR Kit → | tags: steam frame, half-life alyx, valve

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Valve's Steam Frame VR headset starts at $1,059 and ships with Half Life: Alyx (engadget.com)

2026-09-14 | by Steve Dent | get Valve Index VR Headset → | tags: steam frame, half life alyx, valve

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Valve Steam Frame review: Solid standalone VR that's too little, too late (engadget.com)

2026-09-14 | by Devindra Hardawar | get Valve Index VR Kit → | tags: steam frame, half-life alyx, valve

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Valve has ported Half-Life: Alyx to ARM, and it’s free with Steam Frame (theverge.com)

2026-09-14 | by Sean Hollister | get Meta Quest 3 VR headset → | tags: half-life alyx, steam frame, arm64

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Valve’s Steam Frame costs $1,059 (theverge.com)

2026-09-14 | by Jay Peters | get Meta Quest 3 VR headset → | tags: steam frame, valve, half-life

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Huge 12TB Leak Exposes a Decade of Steam’s Game Data (cnet.com)

2026-08-31 | by Zachary Mcauliffe | get Steam Deck OLED handheld gaming console → | tags: steam, valve, half-life

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A 12TB Steam 'Teraleak' Spills More Than a Decade of Lost PC Gaming History (slashdot.org)

2026-08-31 | get Seagate Expansion 12TB desktop external hard drive → | tags: steam, valve, portal 2

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A decade's worth of Steam files totaling more than 12TB has leaked (engadget.com)

2026-08-30 | by Jackson Chen | get Seagate Expansion Desktop 16TB external hard drive → | tags: steam, valve, half-life

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Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets (theverge.com)

2026-08-30 | by Terrence O'Brien | get Portal Companion Cube plush → | tags: steam, half-life 2, valve

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Valve was founded 30 years ago today — changed PC gaming forever with Half-Life, then Steam (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-24 | by Mark Tyson | get Steam Deck OLED handheld gaming console → | tags: valve, half-life, steam

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Valve is 30 years old today, and it all began with two former Microsoft employees and a risky bet on games (techspot.com)

2026-08-24 | by Zo Ahmed | get Steam Deck OLED handheld gaming → | tags: valve, gabe newell, half-life

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Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: half-life, valve, mac os 9

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Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: half-life 2, haikuos, refind

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You can now play Half-Life 2 right inside your browser at over 100 FPS with save states & console support — Ingenious port recreates the entire game campaign using WebGL 2 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-05 | by Hassam Nasir | get Half-Life 2 WebGL Edition → | tags: browser, game, hardware

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How to watch Summer Games Done Quick 2026 (engadget.com)

2026-07-03 | by Kris Holt | get Gaming Marathon Streaming Kit → | tags: twitch, summer games done quick, donkey kong country 2

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Half-Life 2 in a Browser (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-25 | get Half-Life 2 Steam Key → | tags: half-life 2, browser gaming, valve corporation

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Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-24 | tags: wine, steam, factorio

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Nvidia releases RTX Remix 1.5 with new RTX IO compression reducing mod file sizes by up to 37% — update also adds Smooth Normals and 'RTX Remix Skills' Agents (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-17 | by Hassam Nasir | get Nvidia RTX Remix Software → | tags: nvidia, rtx remix, rtx io

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ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-13 | get ReactOS Compatibility Pack → | tags: reactos, half-life, windows

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A developer ported Half-Life to a Nokia N95, and it runs at 30fps with Bluetooth keyboard support (techspot.com)

2026-06-10 | by Alfonso Maruccia | get Nokia N95 Smartphone Case → | tags: coding, game, half

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Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-08 | by Luke James | get Mobile Phone Cooling Fan → | tags: half, half life, leoncini

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Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 — proves 2007 phones can just about match 1998 PCs (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-07 | by Luke James | get Mobile Game Controller → | tags: half, half life, leoncini

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Was This Game Just On Sale? Steam May Show Price Shifts Over the Past 30 Days (cnet.com)

2026-04-17 | by See Full Bio | get Steam Wallet Gift Card → | tags: steam, valve, steamdb

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The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | get Caffeine Half-Life Monitor → | tags: caffeine, half-life, consumption

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Razer Boomslang 20th Anniversary Mouse Review: For Collectors (wired.com)

2026-03-15 | by Henri Robbins | get Razer Boomslang 20th Anniversary Mouse → | tags: razer boomslang, halo ce, counter-strike

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A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-10 | get Academic Writing for Graduate Students → | tags: phd, computer science, machine learning

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Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-10 | get Quake Engine → | tags: game, half, life

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GameStop trolls Valve's Gabe Newell for his 'inability to count to three' — playful jab for never releasing a third installment for blockbuster game franchises like Half-Life, Dota, or Counter-Strike (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-27 | get Steam → | tags: count, founder, founder gabe

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GameStop trolls Valve's Gabe Newell for his "inability to count to three" — playful jab for never releasing a third installment for blockbuster game franchises like Half-Life, Dota, or Counter-Strike (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-27 | by Jowi Morales | get GameStop → | tags: count, gamestop, newell