However, Valve's portable PC drops to 30 FPS in the 2020 role-playing game when enabling ray-traced sun shadows and reflections.
"We're not interested in getting to a point where it's 20 or 30 or even 50% more performance at the same battery life," said an engineer.
"The affordability is one of the reasons why we think a Steam Machine makes a lot of sense right now," said Yazan Aldehayyat.
The company has traditionally released some software to showcase its new hardware, like Half-Life: Alyx helped showcase the Valve Index.
"For us, it's important to keep making Steam distribution better and better - and distribute times, add regions and things like that."
Valve's cube-shaped portable PC solution appears to go toe-to-toe with Xbox Series X/S and PS5 in the living room space.
Enabled by default, Steam Deck users can now continue their downloads in this new mode without leaving the handheld's screen on.
This comes from a new report indicating that optimisation work on project HLX has been going smoothly through updates to Source 2.
“I'm honestly disgusted with gambling mechanics in video games at all - they have absolutely no place,” said Hall while calling out Valve.
Reports indicate that Valve is planning to produce between 400,000 and 600,000 units of its follow-up to the Valve Index headset.
According to things in a recent update to Source 2 engine spotted by dataminers, development has been progressing steadily.
The latest Steam sale has a host of games available at deep discounts, from indie titles to massive AAA games from big publishers.
This time around, Steam Next Fest has a wide variety of demos available, from smaller games like Tiny Bookshop to bigger ones.
Valve is "probably content-locked, or if they’re not, they’re mechanic-locked," an insider claims about the rumoured shooter.
The Half-Life 2 RTX demo includes the levels Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt to show off the new ray traced lighting and other features.
Valve spoke about the future of SteamOS, the Steam Deck, and SteamVR in a recent post looking back at its advancements in 2024.
Half-Life 2 RTX was made using Nvidia's RTX Remix tool, which has now exited its beta testing phase and gotten a full release.
The portable gaming PC sold over a million units worldwide in its debut year. Valve has since confirmed "multiple million" units sold.
Valve's company page currently touts two upcoming releases, though only MOBA shooter Deadlock is visible, leading to speculation.
