Steam Deck: A History
My very own personal Steam Deck! Last week, I got my Steam Deck. I've been waiting for this lil guy, somewhat impatiently, for nearly a year- And I'm excited to toy with it and use it as an excuse to write more! So what's the big deal? The Steam Deck is designed and manufactured by Valve Corporation, responsible for Half-Life, Team Fortress, Portal, Counter-Strike, Dota 2, Left 4 Dead, and Steam- a platform for selling and playing PC games. While their foundation is clearly built on software, they've been slowly wading into the hardware space over the last decade. Steam's Big Picture interface This push started in 2012 when Valve announced it was working on a Steam-powered (ha) video game console: something you could plug into your TV and use to play Steam games, but with the extensibility of a computer. You could modify games to play however you'd like, or even use the PC for something entirely unrelated to gaming. The core of this idea was sparked by the la