Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt Fully Releases On April 27

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt, the free-to-play battle royale, will exit Early Access and launch on April 27.

Bloodhunt initially appeared in Steam Early Access in September of last year, and the 1.0 release means it will also be available on PlayStation 5. The third-person shooter takes place in Prague and puts players as vampires against each other. You may play alone or with buddies to take on other people as well as AI-controlled opponents. Which of the six vampire clans you associate with determines your magical talents. Players employ vampiric powers to climb and race up walls and suck blood from victims to increase health and improve powers, regardless of which side they select. Alternatively, you can just mow down targets with guns, crossbows, and other armaments. 

Bloodhunt supports cross-play between PS5 and PC. Tempest 3D audio, adaptive trigger feedback, and little bonuses like the DualSense light indicating the color of your faction are all included in the PS5 edition. Despite the fact that the game is free, you may pre-order a Founders Edition for $59.99, which contains the following bonuses:

• PS5 exclusive Samurai Mask
• PS5 exclusive Headrush and Fast Forward outfits
• Over 100 cosmetic items
• 1,000 tokens for the in-game store

Here’s How To See What Games You Can Play On The Steam Deck

The Steam Deck is now available. You might be interested in seeing what games you can play on it. Fortunately, you can log into your Steam account and instantly check what's validated for Steam Deck, what's playable, and what won't function on it, thanks to a new Steam page. You'll notice four categories for your Steam Library games after less than a minute: Deck Verified Games From Your Library, Deck Playable Games From Your Library, Unsupported Deck Games From Your Library, and Untested Deck Games From Your Library.

Here’s what each means, according to Valve: 

• Deck Verified: Valve’s testing indicates these titles from your Steam Library are fully functional on Steam Deck, and work great with built-in controls and display.
• Deck Playable: Valve’s testing indicates these titles from your Steam Library are functional on Steam Deck, but might require extra effort to interact with or configure. 
• Unsupported: Valve’s testing indicates these games in your Steam Library currently don’t function on Steam Deck. Valve is continuing to add support for more games over time. 
• Untested: Valve’s testing team hasn’t yet gotten to the remaining games in your Steam library, but we’re testing new games every day. Come back often to see more of your library get Verified. 

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Is Getting A Re-Release In March 2022

SEGA and Atlus have announced Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. Persona 4 Arena Ultimax originally released in 2014 on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and arcade machines in Japan. The game will be releasing on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam on March 17th, 2022. 

It's time for...

✨ A BEAR-Y SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! ✨

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax suplexes onto Steam, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch on March 17, 2022! #P25th pic.twitter.com/lybi4hdlGu

— Official ATLUS West (@Atlus_West) December 10, 2021

Valve's Steam Deck Delayed To 2022

The Valve Steam Deck has been delayed by two months. The handheld PC will now start shipping sometime in February 2022, instead of December of this year. The company blamed the delay on the ongoing global semiconductor crunch that has affected everything from GPU prices to car production. 

"We’re sorry about this — we did our best to work around the global supply chain issues, but due to material shortages, components aren’t reaching our manufacturing facilities in time for us to meet our initial launch dates," Valve said.

If you pre-ordered a Steam Deck before today, you will keep your current place in the reservation line, but the date when your Steam Deck will ship is moving back. Valve said it would update shipping estimates shortly after today's announcement. 

Valve Reveals Dates For Steam’s Autumn And Winter Sales

According to the Steamworks Documentation page notes the Steam autumn sale will take place from November 24th-30th. As for the Steam winter sale, you'll be able to score discounts on a ton of games between December 22nd and January 5th.

God Of War Coming To PC In January

Sony has announced God of War (2018) will be coming to PC on January 14, 2022. You can pre-purchase God of War on Steam for $49.99. That Steam page reveals a lot of details about this PC port, too. 

“Striking visuals enhanced on PC,” the Steam page reads. “Enjoy true 4K resolution, on supported devices, with unlocked framerates for peak performance. Dial in your settings via a wide range of graphical presets and options including higher resolution shadows, improved screen space reflections, the addition of GTAO and SSDO, and much more.” 

The Steam page also states that God of War on PC will support Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling to “boost frame rates and generate beautiful, sharp images on select Nvidia GPUs.” God of War will also feature support for both the PlayStation 4 Dualshock 4 controller and the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller, as well as other controllers. It also features 21:9 ultra-widescreen support. 

Super Robot Wars 30 Comes To Steam In October

 Bandai Namco has announced it’s bringing a Super Robot Wars game to North America this October. Super Robot Wars 30 is the celebration of this seminal tactical series known for bringing all of your favorite mecha into one game. 

As you can see in the trailer below, there are awesome animated sequences attached to powerful attacks and maneuvers. Gameplay is similar to what you’d find in Fire Emblem. Characters from the included franchises are also woven into the Super Robot Wars story.

Here’s the current list of mechs in Super Robot Wars 30: 

• Super Electromagnetic Robot Combattler V
• Mobile Suit Gundam
• Mobile Suit Z Gundam　
• Z-MSV
• Mobile Suit Gundam Char’s Counterattack
• M-MSV
• Mobile Suit V Gundam　
• Mobile Suit Gundam NT (Narrative)
• Heavy Metal L-Gaim
• The Brave Police J-Decker
• The King of Braves GaoGaiGar FINAL
• The King of Kings: GaoGaiGar VS Betterman
• Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion III - Glorification
• Code Geass Lelouch of the Re;surrection
• Getter Robo Armageddon
• Mazinger Z: Infinity
• Mazinkaiser (INFINITISM)
• Magic Knight Rayearth
• Gun X Sword
• Majestic Prince
• Knight's & Magic
• SSSS.GRIDMAN

Who’d you like to see in the game? Super Robot Wars 30 comes to Steam on October 27.

Valve's Steam Deck Is A Handheld PC. Starts at $399, Releases In December

Valve has revealed the Steam Deck, which will arrive in December in the US, Canada, the European Union and the UK. The system starts at $399.

It has a 7-inch touchscreen, with a resolution of 1,280 x 800 at a 16:10 aspect ratio, 400 nits of brightness and a 60Hz refresh rate. It features dual thumbsticks, two 32.5mm square trackpads, an analog directional pad, four main face buttons, triggers and a quartet of grip buttons, as well as gyro controls. The Steam Deck also has a headphone jack, stereo speakers, dual microphones and haptic feedback. It weighs around 669 grams and it's just under a foot wide.

Valve has partnered with AMD on the hardware. The custom chipset features a 2.4-3.5GHz processor and a 1.0 to 1.6GHz GPU with 8 RDNA 2 compute units. The handheld PC comes with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and up to 512GB of NVMe internal storage, which you can expand with a microSD card. Valve says the 40-watt-hour battery will power the device for between 2 and 8 hours on a single charge. The battery life will depend on how resource intensive the games you play are.  

Steam Deck runs on a new version of SteamOS that's designed for handheld use. You'll have access to your full library of games. You can expect to have access to many Steam
features, including chat, remote play, cloud saves and the Steam storefront. The device has a built-in quick suspend and resume feature. Pressing the power button will suspend your game and send the Steam Deck into sleep mode. You'll be able to continue where you left off when you hit the power button again.

Steam Deck will support a variety of Bluetooth and USB-C peripherals. You can plug in a powered USB-C hub and use multiple devices at once. You can connect the system to an external display and play games at up to 8K at 60Hz or 4K at 120Hz. Valve is also making an official dock with DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0 and Ethernet ports, as well as one USB 3.1 connection and two USB 2.0 sockets. You'll be able to use the Steam Deck as an actual PC.

The base $399 Steam Deck comes with 64GB of eMMC internal storage and a carrying case. For $529, you can upgrade the storage to a 256GB NVMe SSD. The 512GB model costs $649 and comes with "premium anti-glare etched glass." The dock will be sold separately at a later time.

Introducing Steam Deck: powerful, portable PC gaming starting at $399. Designed by Valve, powered by Steam. Shipping December 2021.

Learn more at https://t.co/ZOTx3KUCVK and reserve yours tomorrow. #SteamDeck pic.twitter.com/jcgbaKfT9c

— Steam (@Steam) July 15, 2021

Days Gone Comes To PC In May

 Sony has announced that Days Gone s coming to PC. This version of the game includes ultra-wide monitor support, improved visuals, and unlocked framerates. Days Gone is set to arrive on PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on May 18, 2021.

Steam Next Fest Happening In June

Valve has announced that the Steam Game Festival will start later this year.The Steam Next Fest will kick off on June 16th and run through to the 22nd. Notably, that means it will overlap with part of this year's likely all-digital E3. The three-day event is slated to start on June 15th. They'll demos of upcoming games to play, livestreams and a chance to chat with the people behind those projects. 

Here Are The Most Popular Games On Steam In 2020

• 
  Among Us
  
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Destiny 2
• Doom Eternal
• Dota 2
• Fall Guys
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Monster Hunter World
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
• Rainbow Six Siege
• Red Dead Redemption 2

The 2020 Steam Winter Sale Is Live

The 2020 Steam Winter Sale is live with discounts on thousands of games. It runs until January 5th at 1PM ET. You’ll find some decent discounts, even on some recent games. Steam has also added some seasonal items you can claim through its points program, including avatars, animated stickers and a seasonal profile. You receive points for every purchase and you can unlock digital goodies with them. 

Persona 5 Strikers Coming To The West In February

Atlus has announced that Persona 5 Strikers will be coming to the west for PS4, Nintendo Switch and PC on February 23rd 
2021. It’s titled Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers in Japan, but it will simply be known as Persona 5 Strikers here in the west.

Persona 5 Strikers is releasing in the West on Feb 23rd for Switch/PS4/Steam https://t.co/cDmoq7zxG9 pic.twitter.com/u6YtnOYnYs

— Wario64 (@Wario64) December 4, 2020

Horizon Zero Dawn PC Requirements Revealed

The system requirements for the Horizon Zero Dawn for PC have arrived ahead of the game's launch. The specs were revealed via the Horizon Zero Dawn Steam page.

Minimum Specs

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 10 64-bits
• Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K@3.3GHz or AMD FX 6300@3.5GHz
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 (3 GB) or AMD Radeon R9 290 (4GB)
• DirectX: Version 12
• Storage: 100 GB available space

Recommended Specs

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 10 64-bits
• Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K@3.5GHz or Ryzen 5 1500X@3.5GHz
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 580 (8GB)
• DirectX: Version 12
• Storage: 100 GB available space

Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition will launch on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store on August 7th.

Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition Comes To PC In August

The Horizon Zero Dawn has found much success since its debut on PlayStation 4, and now it’s coming to PC. Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition comes to both Steam and the Epic Games Store on August 7. This release includes The Frozen Wilds expansion and comes with graphic enhancements, options, and customization.

Death Stranding Coming To PC In June, Half-Life Crossover Content For Steam

Kojima Productions and 505 Games have announced the news, Death Stranding is coming to PC on June 2 via both Steam and the Epic Games Store. The PC version features a photo mode, higher frame rate caps, and ultra-wide screen support. Also it'll have Half-Life crossover content for the Steam version.

Anyone who pre-orders Death Stranding on PC will get a Chiral Gold and Omnireflector cap, sunglasses, gold and silver speed skeleton, and gold and silver armor plate. However, all PC purchases will also get the following:

• Selections from ‘The Art of DEATH STRANDING’ digital art book (by Titan Books)
• Death Stranding Original Score Expanded Edition by Ludvig Forsell (including 10 unreleased tracks)
• Ludens mask sunglasses (chiral gold and omnireflector)
• Gold and silver power skeleton
• Gold and silver all-terrain skeleton
• Gold and silver armour plate (LV2)

Every Half-Life Game Is Free To Play For A Limited Time

Valve has announced in a new blog post. that every Half-Life game will be free-to play for a limited time so players are ready for Half-Life: Alyx. Users can go to Steam right now and install Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and Half-Life 2: Episode One and Two. 

Half-Life: Alyx is set before the events of Half-Life 2 and stars Alyx Vance, a main character in Half-Life 2 and its episodes. Unlike the other games in the series, the game is played entirely in VR.

EA Tiltes Are Coming Back To Steam

EA and Valve are partnering up to put games and EA Access titles (EA's subscription service) on Steam. 

The first big game will be Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, launching on November 15. A glance at the title's Steam page seems to indicate that users opting in on Steam will still need to have Origin installed. However, a Respawn dev has stated on Reddit that when Apex Legends comes to Steam it will launch directly from Steam. So We’ll have to wait and see if you really need Origin to play EA titles on Steam. Other title coming to Steam next year include Battlefield V, FIFA 20 and Sims 4. 

Aladdin & Lion King Remastered Bundle Coming in October

Disney announced that it has been working with publisher Nighthawk Interactive and developer Digital Eclipse to release remastered versions of Aladdin and The Lion King in one $29.99 bundle. There’s a number of improvements including “upscaled graphics to support high definition displays and additional upgrades to enhance playability”

You will also get “save states, a new rewind feature, level selection, invulnerability, and infinite lives.” This classic game collection also includes extra of versions of each titles including the SEGA Mega Drive, Game Boy, and Super Game Boy releases alongside The Lion King Super Nintendo version. You’ll also get the “final cut” of Aladdin plus the game’s 1993 trade show demo. The bugle releases on October 29. 

Play Steam Games On iPhone, iPad And Apple TV With Steam Link

Valve's Steam Link app is available for Apple's devices. You’ll be able to stream you PC games on your iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, right from your PC. This isn’t quite cloud-streamed gaming, as your PC and Steam needs to be on in order to use the app. You’ll also need a decent connection, here’s all the requirements you’ll need to use SteamLink :

Requirements:

• iPhone or iPad using iOS 10 or higher
• Computer running Steam – Windows, Mac, or Linux
• iOS device must be on the same local network as the computer running Steam

For best performance:

• Connect your computer using Ethernet to your 5Ghz WiFi router
• Connect your iOS device to the 5GHz band of your WiFi network
• Keep your iOS device within a reasonable range of your router

This is more or less PS4 Remote play for Steam games. Only real difference is the latency, at least that’s all I can see from the short time I’ve used the app. Thoughts ? 

The Steam Link app is now available for free for all iOS and Apple TV users!

The app allows gamers to stream their Steam library to their iPhone, iPad or Apple TV.

🎮 Get it on the App Store: https://t.co/K18EGgLP9u pic.twitter.com/tG6zIlfPYb

— Steam (@steam_games) May 16, 2019