Steam Deck Maker Valve to Units New Console (Gaming News Roundup)

Valve, the maker of the favored Steam Deck handheld PC gaming console, is launching new video-game {hardware}, Steam Machine, in 2026.

The Steam Machine, a 6-inch dice gaming console meant for stationary play vs. the moveable Steam Deck choice, will debut subsequent 12 months together with the Steam Controller and VR headset Steam Frame.

“With over six times the horsepower of Steam Deck, Steam Machine has the power to play your whole Steam library, including your favorite AAA titles,” Valve says. “Just sign with your Steam account and your entire library is there.”

Per Valve, all three units “are optimized for Steam and designed for players to get even more out of their Steam library.”

Pricing has not but been revealed for the brand new units, which are actually obtainable for wishlisting on Steam.

Watch Valve’s announcement of the brand new Steam Machine {hardware} and equipment beneath.

See extra gaming information from this week within the roundup beneath.

NEW RELEASES

First-person sci-fi journey and immersive sim “Ambrosia Sky” debuted with “Act One” of the online game Monday throughout PC through Steam and Epic Games Store. Acts Two and Three of the sport will launch in 2026.

Per developer Soft Rains, “In ‘Ambrosia Sky,’ players assume the role of Dalia, a field scientist belonging to an enigmatic order in pursuit of human immortality. Dispatched to a farming colony on Saturn’s outer rings, a place she once called home, she finds it abandoned and overrun by hostile fungi. Those she knew are now dead, missing, or perhaps complicit. It’s up to Dalia to cleanse the contamination, discover the truth, and lay the dead to rest.”

In the primary act, “Ambrosia Sky” “thrusts you into a mind-bending world of death, decay, and what comes after. Armed with a chemical sprayer and grappling hook, you’ll face unpredictable alien growths across the colony.”

Watch the launch trailer for “Ambrosia Sky” beneath.

TRAILERS

Microsoft’s Activision and Treyarch debuted a brand new trailer for the Milo Ventimiglia-led “Call of Duty: Black Ops 7” forward of the sport’s launch Nov. 14.

New particulars have been additionally revealed concerning the recreation’s co-op marketing campaign “Endgame,” which takes place after the conclusion of the primary 11 missions. 

Per Xbox, “Endgame is the culmination of the story, where the world fully opens up for 1-32 players in squads of up to four. Working together on Avalon across a variety of missions, players will wield personalized abilities and face unexpected challenges, putting everything they’ve mastered throughout the story to the test.”

RELEASE DATES

ProbablyMonsters introduced an enhanced model of its motion rogue-like “Storm Lancers” will launch Dec. 9 on Nintendo Switch and for PC through Steam and the Epic Games Store.

Per the online game builders, “This model of ‘Storm Lancers’ can have HDR assist, run at a easy 60 frames-per-second and permits gamers to group up on-line via Nintendo GameShare and Steam Remote Play Together.

TECH

Roblox has made its rewarded video advertisements product obtainable to “all ads-eligible creators” on the web site. The purpose with this growth is “providing our developers with a more predictable, easy-to-implement solution to increase their earnings and gain more control over ad revenue,” in response to Roblox.

Additionally, Roblox has launched a self-serve choice for its License Manager software, which permits any eligible IP holder—from main studios to manufacturers with registered IP — to supply their IP to be used on the gaming platform, and offers any eligible creator the prospect to use to adapt an expertise to make use of it. 

According to Roblox, because the launch of the License Manager with founding companions Lionsgate, Netflix, Sega, and Kodansha in July, creators have submitted over 1,500 license requests from the collection of obtainable IP.

“We launched the licensing platform to fundamentally change how IP holders and creators collaborate across the platform,” mentioned Greg Hartrell, Senior Product Director, Creator Content Ecosystem in a weblog submit. “This new system dramatically streamlines a traditionally complicated IP licensing course of, which beforehand concerned prolonged negotiations and restricted partnerships to a choose group of studios.

COLLABORATIONS

Riot Games has launched a music video for the “Valorant” Game Changers Championship 2025. Titled “Go Off,” the music video contains a reimagined model of “M.I.A.” by KATSEYE, which is that this 12 months’s championship anthem. It is accessible throughout streaming platforms.

The music video tells the story of the ladies in “Valorant” and the ladies who play it, celebrating the connection and neighborhood that they foster via the sport.

The “Valorant” Game Changers Championship 2025 will happen Nov. 28-30 at at Riot’s LoL Park in Seoul.

MONETIZATION

Fortnite builders now have the power to make in-island transactions with new instruments from Epic. They will quickly be capable to publish video games in-island and promote gadgets immediately from their islands utilizing V-Bucks. These transactions are a part of the Unreal Editor for Fortnite Creator Ecosystem Update and provide builders monetization alternatives past engagement payouts.

See the complete checklist of things that builders are approved to promote, methods to be a part of within the monetization and the up to date developer tips on the Fortnite website.