Fortnite’s developer is ready to battle Steam by building its own digital store. Epic Games announced Tuesday that the Epic Games store is coming soon to PC and Mac, with eventual plans to also come to Android as well as other “open platforms” in 2019. Epic Games says more information about the store will be …
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For over 400 years the Chatham Dockyard just outside London built boats for the British Navy and their allies. From sailing ships to submarines, Chatham built over 500 vessels. Today it’s a naval museum with multiple ships, vehicles, and more, making it one of the best military museums in southeast England. A journey that once would have taken many hours now …
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Within the next week, Nvidia Shield streamer owners will be able to access the beta of Nvidia’s GeForce Now (GFN) all-you-can-play cloud-gaming service — sans PC. And given that one of Nvidia’s goals with the PC/Mac version of GFN is to keep on top of the newest, most popular games, that means you don’t have to live with just the …
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VR still has some major problems to solve — like the pesky cord that often tethers you to a PC. But Valve, the company that’s working on three full-length VR games (you may also know it from a little thing called Steam), might soon solve the problem of being able to naturally pick up, hold and squeeze objects with your …
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Cheeps! I need a vacation — so I’m taking one. You’ll have to live without me for the next couple weeks, but fear not: I’ve lined up a few sweet deals that’ll pop up while I’m gone, and CNET has a deep bench of awesome cheapskates to fill in the gaps. Speaking of benches, are you tired of sitting all …
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Two weeks ago, Apple crushed some gamers’ dreams by rejecting the Steam Link app for iOS, which would have allowed users to stream games from their beefy computers to an iPhone or iPad. But today, it’s looking like the Steam Link iOS app might have a real chance of being approved — because Valve has unceremoniously ripped the Steam Store …
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A new “Remote Application Mirroring” policy in Apple’s App Store review guidelines may indicate there’s hope for Valve’s recently rejected Steam Link app. But in order to comply, the owner of the Steam gaming platform, Valve, may have to water down the app significantly compared with its Android version. Section 4.2.7 of the rules, initially pointed out by Reuters, say that …
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If you’ve ever dreamed of playing a big AAA gaming title on your phone, now you can. Sort of. Valve’s Steam Link ($160 at Amazon) system originally required a physical box to be plugged into a television and connected to the same network as your gaming computer. You would then use the processing power of your dedicated gaming rig to stream …
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If you were hoping to stream PC games from your powerful gaming rig to your iPhone or iPad, we’ve got some bad news. PC gaming giant Valve says Apple has rejected its Steam Link app, meaning it may not appear on the App Store after all. (It’s available in beta on Android right now.) Valve says that Apple actually approved the iOS version for …
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Valve released the Steam Controller back in 2015, and while some people chose to use the controller to play their Steam games on PC (others may prefer their keyboard), it apparently had one dormant feature all this time: Bluetooth support. Years later, Valve is now enabling Bluetooth LE support in its controllers, which means it had the hardware for it all …
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