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With the imminent release of the first batch of Steam Decks to the public, Valve has quietly been working behind the scenes to optimise the experience to make gaming on the handheld machine as accessible as possible. <\/p>\n

Those optimisations appear to go as far as updating older titles. Valve has released a beta update for Half-Life 2 that gives the game’s user interface a facelift.<\/p>\n

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With the imminent release of the first batch of Steam Decks to the public, Valve has quietly been working behind the scenes to optimise the experience to make gaming on the handheld machine as accessible as possible. Those optimisations appear to go as far as updating older titles. Valve has released a beta update for Half-Life 2 that gives the game’s user interface a facelift. 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