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Author: Jay Peters The rumored MMO set in Sony’s post-apocalyptic Horizon universe is real — and we’ve seen a video spilling details about the game before it’s been announced. The new game is called Horizon Steel Frontiers, and Sony and the Korean video game company NCSoft are working on it...

Author: Justine Calma Oxfam activists wearing oversized masks representing (L to R) European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, Argentina's President Javier Milei, US President Donald Trump and Canada's Prime Minister Marck Carney pose during...

Author: Jay Peters In its new Steam Frame VR headset, Valve put dual audio drivers on each side in the included head strap. That puts the audio near your ears while you’re wearing it, and in my brief time trying the device at Valve’s headquarters recently, I thought the sound was just fine...

Author: Jay Peters Valve’s new streaming-first VR headset — the Steam Frame — employs a clever trick to help make game streaming feel as low-latency as possible. It’s called foveated streaming, and it means the headset requests a higher-quality image for the content that’s right in front of...

Author: Sean Hollister A Steam Frame with a transparent case. Valve won’t talk about a Steam Deck 2. It probably wants to keep the attention on its just-announced living room console, comfy new controller, and Arm-based headset instead. But now that the company is preparing to sell an Arm...

Author: Jay Peters Valve just announced the Steam Frame, a new standalone VR headset that can both stream games from a PC and play games locally thanks to an onboard Arm chip. The headset is quite a bit different from Valve’s previous model, the Index, which had to be tethered to a gaming...

Author: Jay Peters Valve has just announced the Steam Frame, its new VR headset that can play games streamed directly from your PC using a dedicated streaming stick and run Windows games locally thanks to an Arm chip in the headset itself. At the same time, Valve is also moving on from its...

Author: Sean Hollister You can think of the just-announced Steam Frame as a wireless VR headset for your PC, or a Steam Deck for your face. But another way to think about it is that Valve is finally entering the mobile realm. The Frame doesn’t just run Windows games on its Arm-based Qualcomm...

Author: Hayden Field, Tom Warren OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.1 today, an update to the flagship model it released in August. OpenAI calls it an “upgrade” to GPT-5 that “makes ChatGPT smarter and more enjoyable to talk to.” The new models include GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking. The former...

Author: Emma Roth Apple is launching Digital IDs, a feature that allows you to create and store an ID in Apple Wallet using your US passport. In the announcement, Apple says Digital ID acceptance will begin to “roll out first”at TSA checkpoints for domestic travel in over 250 airports across...

Author: Sheena Vasani The Tapo RV30 Max Plus is over $100 off. We don’t normally recommend robot vacuums under $200, but the Tapo RV30 Max Plus is the exception to the rule. While its MSRP is $329, right now it’s down to a new record low of $199.99 when you apply promo code 30RV30MPLUS at...

Author: Verge Staff The Steam Frame, Steam Machine, Steam Deck, and Steam Controller. | Image: Valve In 2012, The Verge broke the news that Valve was making a game console. Gabe Newell himself dished on the company’s grand plans. By 2015, the “Steam Machines” had utterly flopped. But Valve...

Author: Sean Hollister On the 15th floor of an upscale office building in Bellevue, Washington, security guards line the halls. They're here to make sure we don't stray - because I'm visiting Valve's headquarters, a place few journalists ever get to go. The guards help escort me to a tiny...

Author: Sean Hollister The Steam Machine. Valve is about to challenge the Xbox and PlayStation on their home turf. Ten years to the month after Valve's original Steam Machines went on sale, the company is announcing… the Steam Machine. I flew to Valve's headquarters to try the company's new...

Author: Jay Peters Here’s me wearing the Steam Frame, Valve’s new VR headset. Valve is about to launch a new virtual reality headset, and with it, a comprehensive new approach to what a VR device should be. Most VR headsets I've tried have ended up collecting dust after the novelty wore off...

Author: Jay Peters The new controller at Valve’s HQ. One of the best parts of the Steam Deck is its many different controls, and how you can customize them to let you do whatever you want with every single one of your games. Now, Valve is bringing that same level of flexibility into a new...

Author: Jay Peters, Sean Hollister The Verge’s Sean Hollister on the left and Jay Peters on the right. Hi! I'm Jay Peters, a senior reporter here at The Verge. I'm perhaps the site's second-biggest Steam Deck fan, surpassed only by Sean Hollister, our unofficial handheld gaming PC reviewer...

Author: Sean Hollister Valve has just announced its biggest hardware push that it’s arguably ever made — a living room game console called the Steam Machine, a headset called the Steam Frame, and the long-awaited sequel to its Steam Controller it hinted about three years back. But Valve...

Author: Elissa Welle Amazon says it is blocking apps that allow users to illegally stream content on its Fire TV Stick, according to reporting by The Athletic. The clampdown will apply to new and old devices and it’s already begun in France and Germany, with a global rollout set for the next...

Author: Emma Roth Anthropic just announced plans to put $50 billion toward bolstering computing infrastructure in the US. As part of the initiative, the company is working with the AI cloud platform Fluidstack to build datacenters in Texas and New York, “with more sites to come.” The data...