M.H. Williams

Fast forward to 2025, and we’ve solved a bunch of the hardest problems. The Proton compatibility layer brought thousands of excellent games to Linux and SteamOS at no cost to game developers. Millions of players have helped us refine and perfect the gamepad experience of shopping, playing, and chatting on Steam. Manufacturing learnings from the original Steam Controller, the Steam Link streaming box, the Valve Index, and the Steam Deck all poured into realizing what we dreamed about more than a decade earlier: a gaming-first living room experience, an open platform for customers, and wireless virtual reality headset with its own processing power. Here’s the lineup of hardware we announced in 2025. We hope to ship in 2026, but as we shared recently, memory and storage shortages have created challenges for us. We’ll share updates publicly when we finalize our plans!

Despite today's SteamDB updates pointing to "coming soon" for the Steam hardware, Valve seemingly casts some doubt on them launching in 2026.

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I played it at launch, but I already had two MMOs on the docket, so I didn't stick with it.

Crimson being single player and finite is more appealing for me.

This clip of HORSE DRIFTING in Crimson Desert has instantly sold me on Crimson Desert in a way no other feature has.

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4 is a better game, but I was in the trenches in 3 as a youth!

Super Mario Kart is a similar pick. 8 Deluxe is the best one for me by far—or another racer like Burnout 3 Takedown—but the OG is what forged me.

I guess I'm a basic bitch.

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The Dragon Quest Builders team knows what's up.

The six finalists for the Mega Man: Dual Override contest all look great.

I'd probably do Sweeper Woman, Valve Man, or Cactus Man.

Taken together, both ads say something.

I've played Lacrimosa of Dana. I own Lacrimosa, Origins, Nordics, and Memoire.

I've played Lacrimosa of Dana. I own Lacrimosa, Origins, Nordics, and Memoire.

Need to play more of the Ys games at some point. I own four of them and have played like one.

Jason Moore To Direct ‘Murder, She Wrote’ Movie Starring Jamie Lee Curtis For Universal Jason Moore is set to direct a 'Murder, She Wrote' movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis as Jessica Fletcher for Universal Pictures.

The monkey's paw curls.

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"Mike, why isn't this just a blog?"

I NEED TO FINISH SETTING IT UP! I'M TIRED!

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What's the sales case for Helix, or PS6, or a Steam Machine at $800+? It feels like a rougher road to me.

Especially since the other leg is AI is part of massive layoffs, so folks don't even really have enough disposable income.

Lots of dominoes all the way down.

So you've got the K-shaped economy. The well off buying g the most premium stuff, and everyone else else abstaining or hunting for older/cheaper stuff. (Which pushes up those prices and everything continues to spiral.)

Is that sustainable? No clue.

At the same time, *because of AI* everything in the tech market is now more expensive due to the RAM and storage issue.

So the reason to upgrade has lessened, and now the general affordability has gone as well.

It's interesting, because we've sort of reached a tech plateau.

Every year, the phones, tablets, and TVs are mostly the same. The specs grow (see PCs), but we don't need much more power. Most aren't using what they got.

That was the sales case for AI, convince user they need new thing *for this*.

Some journalist somewhere...

"she just... tweeted it out."

Oh, I know. I use them as cold storage for PS5 games. I move titles back and forth over to the main drive.

(PS4 games are on a different, older 1TB drive.)

I should picked up a meaty NVME, but never got around to it. They went into the PC

I currently use external 2TB drives on my PS5 and Xbox. They were around $100 when I bought them.

If you're talking purely internal, a 1TB NVME is around $160-200. Same in MicroSD Express is $200-230 when you can find em.

Hasegawa has no plans to buy a larger microSD Express card to expand Switch 2 storage. Storage upgrades on his PlayStation 5 and PC cost about half as much, and Hasegawa is turning to those platforms if game titles are available there, reserving the Switch 2 for playing Nintendo’s own titles — and even then, only after carefully checking their file sizes.

Towards the end, the article acknowledges that part of the problem is MicroSD Express is comparatively expensive.

Normal storage is going up in price, but Express already started higher.

Nintendo Switch 2 Users Face Storage Woes as Memory Crisis Bites Demand for Nintendo Co.’s profit-earning game software is under threat from soaring prices for data storage, clouding efforts to build a Switch 2 ecosystem that’s resilient to tariffs and military con...

This is not really a Nintendo-only problem.

That said, Nintendo is in a unique position to *just have pubs put the whole game on the card*.

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Nevermind. I've been informed that this is the cover of the book, but maybe there is some of that action in there. Who knows?

Based on Annabel Lyon’s novel The Golden Mean, the drama begins as the Athenian empire is crumbling and the world’s greatest mind, Aristotle, arrives in Macedonia to tutor a volatile young prince, Alexander. Amid palace intrigue, forbidden love, brutal war and ruthless ambitions, their unlikely friendship shapes an empire and alters the course of history.

Adds Jinny Howe, head of US and Canada scripted series at Netflix, “Jacob Tierney is one of the most exciting, in-demand creative voices working today, and we are thrilled to work with him on Alexander. We were immediately captivated by his vision for adapting Annabel Lyon’s acclaimed novel. This series reimagines the classic power struggle between mentor and protégé with a raw, modern energy that feels both epic and incredibly intimate. This high-stakes drama is poised to deeply resonate with our global audience, and we look forward to bringing it to life with the deftly talented Jason Bateman and the Aggregate Films team.”

Look at this press release!

"This series reimagines the classic power struggle between mentor and protégé with a raw, modern energy that feels both epic and incredibly intimate."

Reasonably sure the book isn't about that, but they want you to think it is given the creative behind it.

Jacob Tierney to Helm Alexander the Great Series Meet the greatest conqueror in the world — and his brilliant tutor, Aristotle.

Alexander about to GET THAT D!

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The culture yearns for the weird shit folks made on Flash.

Building a new Flash I don't know where to start with this but yeah I'm making flash if flash was built in 2026. I'm making it compatible with Linux,Mac, and PC. If you'd like to support this project I've started a patreo...

This is wild.

Some guy is building a new Flash. "It’s a full 2D animation authoring tool — timeline, drawing tools, symbol library, tweening, scripting, the works — built from the ground up in C#."

Flash was a monumental thing before Adobe killed it.

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A couple things. Smaller size, no Touch ID on the cheapest model, it's an iPhone chip, no Thunderbolt, 8GB of RAM.

But for folks that don't need bleeding edge stuff or video editing, it should be fine as a work PC.

Say hello to MacBook Neo Apple today unveiled MacBook Neo, an all-new laptop that delivers the magic of the Mac at a breakthrough price.

This is probably the right time for Apple to go in this direction.

Everyone else is getting *more expensive* in the PC space, and Microsoft isn't winning people over with Windows 11, Copilot, or the upcoming 12.

Apple is going *relatively* cheaper instead. Smart.

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