Valve Drops the Mic, Set to DOMINATE 2026 with 3(!) New Hardware Options
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 11/16/25 at 02:25 PM CT
For decades now, Gamers have believed that Valve, the once-small-time developer and publisher of the ‘Half-Life’ and ‘Portal’ IPs was incapable of counting to three, since none of their games have ever gotten a third, officially-numbered sequel. Well, this week, Valve, the no-longer-small-time owner of Steam, the non-monopolistic, yet still biggest storefront in all of PC gaming, just announced THREE new hardware devices that they will be bringing to market in the first quarter of 2026 (provided no doo-doo comes into contact with any turbines regarding global trade and supply chains).
And I’m going to buy ALL OF THEM!
The world’s most charismatic nerd, Linus of the LinusTechTips Youtube channel, got a special invite to a Valve preview session with these devices, and based on what he showed off, they all look quite amazing.
First up is the Steam Frame, the long-awaited sequel to the Valve Index VR platform. Far from being a mere Index 2.0 as was speculated, the …
Nearly 100% of Corporate Suits Believe Steam is a “Monopoly” in PC Gaming
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 11/09/25 at 02:11 PM CT
Just when you think the corporate overlords that are actively ruining the economy on a global scale can’t get any more cringy or stupid, they always manage to find a way to lower the bar even further. In a recent study performed by the “who the heck are they” digital games sales consulting firm, Rokky, 72% of survey respondents said that they “perceive Steam to be a monopoly” in PC game sales. What’s interesting is that 75% of the people questioned in this survey were C-Suite Executive Sh!theads, so using some incredibly suspect “math,” it “seems” that only 3% of these plutocrats actually understand what a monopoly is, with the remaining 97% seeming to believe that a monopoly is “anything that prevents ME from having 100% of the business in a given sector.”
Based on their long-running stupidity, it seems that C-Suiters don’t know what a monopoly is when looking at it from either side. First, they’ve spent decades proclaiming that none of the wireless …
View Archive
