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It's a little delayed, but it wouldn't be ValveTime if it was on time, right? Anyway, this past week saw Valve reveal the winners of the 2013 Saxxy Awards and release a new CS:GO update which replaced all of the previously available weapon skins with six all-new collections! The first third-party Steam Machine was also revealed earlier this week, courtesy of iBuyPower.


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In case you haven't heard, Valve is beta testing a new Steam feature called Family Sharing. Recently, SteamDB spotted some new features that will soon be making their way in to Family Sharing. These new features deal mostly with what can be thought of as parental controls. The subset of features are called "Family Options". Click here to take a close look at the Family Options in three new screenshots! [...]

The annual Steam Autumn Sale has officially begun! It is set to run from November 27th until December 3rd, and features daily deals and time-sensitive flash sales.

Daily deals function as large price reductions on 9 select game titles for 24 hours at a time, changing every day at 6:00pm GMT. Flash sales also feature heavy price reductions (sometimes more so than daily deals), but with a much smaller time window of 8 hours each.


Some of the notable sales that are kicking off the Autumn Sale are for Outlast, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Sleeping Dogs, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Divekick, and the great Euro Truck Simulator 2.

Head on over to the Steam Storefront to see all the deals. Happy spending! Just remember the golden rule of Steam Sales: If you’re looking to buy a game that’s on sale for the duration of the sale, hold off until the last day to do so. While initial price reductions may be tempting, many titles are likely to see an ever larger price drop during either a daily deal or flash sale sometime between now and the end of the sale on December 3rd. If you see a desired game pop up as a daily deal or flash sale, go for it, since that reduction is almost definitely the lowest you’ll see!

The first official third party Steam Machine has been revealed and no it's not the Piston. This box is from iBuyPower and doesn't seem to have an official name yet but there are two different prototypes, one codenamed Gordon and the other Freeman. The specs are vague but the device will have an AMD CPU and a discrete GPU.


The price has not yet been set, but the device will be "competitive against the PS4 and Xbox One" while promising that it will be able to play "all games" at 60 frames per second and 1080p. The machine will come packaged with Valve's controller sometime next year. For more information and photographs of the box head over to the announcement at Tom's Hardware.