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Image : The Game Awards Do you like video games? Do you like watching video game creators win awards? Do you like free stuff? Then you’ll love Valve’s new giveaway: Watch this year’s Game Awards through SteamTV, and you’ll have the chance to win a new 512GB Steam Deck , which typically retails for $649. The video game developers may get the awards, but we’ll be the real winners of the night. The rules are relatively simple . In order to qualify, you need to live in the U. S. , Canada, UK, or EU, and have made a purchase on your Steam account between Nov. 14, 2021 and Nov. 14, 2022. That means, if you bought a game in roughly the past year, you’re good. But you also can’t just buy something on Steam right now and hope to compete: If your last purchase was after Nov. 14, it won’t count. With those qualifications met, you can register for the giveaway on the official site here . Interestingly, you can enter the giveaway by mail. Grab a four-inch by six-inch note card and print your n...

Photo : Alena Veasey ( Shutterstock ) PS Plus subscribers : Today is your last chance to claim PS Plus Essential’s free games for November 2022. Tomorrow, Dec. 6, Sony will swap these titles for its December 2022 lineup, making the free November 2022 games unavailable for good. That is, unless you make sure you can continue to play them far into the future. November 2022's Essential lineup includes Nioh 2/Nioh 2 Remastered , LEGO Harry Potter Collection , and Heavenly Bodies , a good group of games to have in your library whenever you’re able to get to them. They went live for subscribers on Nov. 1, so players have had nearly five weeks to claim, download, and play these particular games. As you might know, any PS Plus subscription entitles you to these Essential games. Whether you subscribe to PS Plus Essential, PS Plus Extra, or PS Plus Premium, you can claim and download the Essential games as long as you have an active PS Plus subscription. However, that only applies to ...

When Valve released Portal in 2007, it was a revelation. Critics and gamers alike praised the first-person shooter/puzzler for its inventive gameplay, the deadpan wit of GLaDOS ( the artificial intelligence that antagonizes you throughout your mission), and its unique approach to storytelling . But 2007 was a long time ago, and while the gameplay certainly holds up after 15 years , the visuals...not so much. That’s why it’s such good news that the game is getting a   graphical overhaul—and if you bought Portal in the past, you can update the game for free. Portal with RTX is a 2022 reimagining of Portal’s original graphics . It uses the NVIDIA RTX Remix tool, building upon similar upgrades to Quake II and Minecraft . NVIDIA RTX Remix revamps Portal with ray tracing, a computationally-intensive graphics technique in which the game sends light rays out into the 3D environment, and measures how those rays bounce off of objects towards light sources. Ray tracing produces detail...