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Valve Wants You To Test 'Unreleased Games, Hardware Prototypes'

NowGamer: Valve wants the public to test never-before-seen games and hardware products, according to a post on the Steam forums.

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TimmyShire4220d ago

Sign me up. Valve know their shiz.

iamnsuperman4220d ago

It is annoying you have to live in America to sign up (I understand hardware wise but not for software)

Lyssk4220d ago

It's because you will be under NDA, and must playtest in their office, you can't paytets from home.

Knight_Crawler4220d ago

This is Gabes way of trolling by making us play an awesome game and then making us wait 8 years or more to get any info in...Gabe is the king of trolls.

They say a fat joke about Gabe a day keeps Half Life Ep 3 3 away - Gabe you so fat that when you walked across my TV I missed 1 enitre season on Game of Thrones : )

roadkillers4220d ago

I kind of understood that...

skyward4220d ago

Expect there will be NDAs. Would be well up for testing Valve's headset with CS:GO/L4D2/HL3 though.

FPStealthRPGamer4220d ago

Valve's console(Steambox???) and Half-Life 3???
...and then i fainted....

shutUpAndTakeMyMoney4220d ago (Edited 4220d ago )

"you're welcome to fill out the survey no matter where you live as we may have plans for remote playtests in the future. Thanks for your interest in helping us make better products!

You can hit the link to take the Playtester survey though Valve confirmed that it is "looking to add international support in the future. For now though, playtesting will be US only."

They are just awsome..

skyward4220d ago

The mention of motion-sickness makes me think VR headset. Has to be.

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein2d ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii1d 23h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo1d 22h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows901d 22h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel19891d 13h ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

Nooderus1d 4h ago

"X" type of gamer conversations are cringe

qalpha1d 23h ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno1d 23h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan1d 22h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno1d 22h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life19811d 22h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn6691d 14h ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

Gaming4Life19811d 8h ago

I feel you and i have never walked out on a bad movie cause I payed my money. I also don't refund games cause I'm a gamer and I know what to buy lol. I think having a digital refund is great.

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Why Are Steam's Recommendations Dogpoop?

Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm

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UltimateOwnage19d ago

Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.

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5 Best Metroidvania Games on Steam (March 2024)

Dive into the best Metroidvania games on Steam, from hidden gems to top-rated classics, and embark on unforgettable adventures!

jznrpg29d ago

Skul is a metroidvania ? It’s on PS+ soon I’ll check it out. If it’s good I’ll buy a copy physically if they have one

Nacho_Z29d ago

If Pseudoregalia is one of the best I'd hate to see what the worst look like.