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It's beginning to look a lot like Smissmas in Team Fortress 2. The fan-favorite yuletide event has made its annual return, bringing with it six new community maps, fresh taunts, a host of unusual ...

Team Fortress 2 stands alongside Half-Life and Portal as one of the foundational pillars of Steam itself. But perhaps it could have looked rather different. Formerly known as Team Fortress 2 Classic, ...

When Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine hardware last month, some eagle-eyed gamers may have been surprised to see that the official spec sheet lists support for HDMI 2.0 output, rather than ...

There’s a new block on the block, or at least there will be soon. The Steam Machine, Valve’s new cuboid mini gaming PC disguised as a game console is coming early next year. And that’s exciting! I ...

More than 12 years ago, Steam creator Valve attempted to usurp Microsoft's hold on PC gaming by introducing the first Steam Machine. The reliance on Linux and a loose hold on OEM hardware ...

When you think of gaming PCs, you almost inevitably think of Windows-based hardware. However, Valve is hoping to change that mindset with the unveiling of the Steam Machine. It might even change your ...

Valve announced the Steam Machine today alongside a new Steam Frame VR headset and a new Steam Controller. Following up on the success of its Steam Deck, Valve is clearly attempting to bridge the ...

On The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of “The Magic Mountain,” by Morten Høi Jensen. Can politics and aesthetics be pried apart? Can an infatuation with death be redirected ...

30 years after the original debuted, Michael Mann’s Heat 2 is really happening, and it’s happening at Amazon-MGM. While some might (reasonably) hear this fact and worry that it means Heat 2 will be ...

While at the Lumiere Festival in Lyon where he’s being honored with a career tribute, Michael Mann reflected on his time in Paris documenting the student uprisings of 1968 for NBC. That year, he said, ...

Michael Mann has revealed that Scott Cooper will direct his Western project Comanche, inspired by the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, a white woman who was kidnapped by Comanches as a child and later ...