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Valve considered making a new VR game for the Steam Frame, before tackling the "ludicrous" task of getting Half-Life: Alyx running standalone

Valve have sometimes – if perhaps not often enough to call it a grand old tradition – massaged interest in their hardware by pairing the kit with a new game. For the Steam Deck it was Aperture Desk Job, and for 2019's jammy sod of a VR headset, the Valve Index, it was Half-Life:

Valve considered making a new VR game for the Steam Frame, before tackling the "ludicrous" task of getting Half-Life: Alyx running standalone

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Valve have sometimes – if perhaps not often enough to call it a grand old tradition – massaged interest in their hardware by pairing the kit with a new game.

For the Steam Deck it was Aperture Desk Job, and for 2019's jammy sod of a VR headset, the Valve Index, it was Half-Life:

Why not make something new, even a smaller tech demo like ADJ or the Index's own The Lab collection of Portal-themed minigames?

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Valve have sometimes – if perhaps not often enough to call it a grand old tradition – massaged interest in their hardware by pairing the kit with a new game. For the Steam Deck it was Aperture Desk Job, and for 2019's jammy sod of a VR headset, the Valve Index, it was Half-Life: Why not make something new, even a smaller tech demo like ADJ or the Index's own The Lab collection of Portal-themed minigames?

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