White Sands is NOT Half-Life 3, probably

This week, we dive into Valve's mysterious new project, White Sands. Plus, Intel's Battlemage finally has a release date, AMD taps the brakes on CUDA emulation, and game demos on Steam are becoming a problem. Oh, and we'll share our thoughts on dealing with joke reviews.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro
00:54 Good news from the ISP
02:37 Extreme lock hacking
04:26 Guessing anniversary gifts
05:35 Good time at the Pool
07:17 Half-Life 3 White Sands
08:37 Feet cam
11:34 SteamOS beta has ROG buttons
13:52 Do you use speakers on mobile?
15:01 Steam filtering joke reviews
17:01 Adding a meh filter
19:33 Game demos SUCK!
21:46 Steam time machine
25:48 Motordoom: THPS x Vamp Survivors
28:21 VLADiK BRUTAL
29:36 Proton is NOT Linux
31:48 ZOOMER shooters?
33:03 Battle Mage release date!
35:35 GDDR6 no X
38:34 PipeWire battery vampire
39:37 Paranoid Pedro
42:58 Hardware torture
44:25 AMD kills CUDA EMU
48:44 Your first game controller?
49:38 L3 SUCKS for running
51:33 Are gamepads done evolving?
53:27 Open-source controllers
55:43 Always run in games