Valve is offering up to 100 Steam Deck portables during The Game Awards event on Thursday night, in a free lottery that anyone can enter.
The Game Awards might be the most important night of the year for video game news but they’re incredibly inconvenient to watch from the UK, considering they start at 1am and go on for three hours.
If you were thinking of staying up anyway there is an extra incentive to do so, as Valve is giving away 100 1TB Steam Deck OLED devices over the course of the event, and all you have to do to win one is enter a free prize draw.
The competition is valid in the UK and most of Europe and in order to have a chance to win you only need to sign-up to this website and hope for the best.
Last year, Valve was giving away a new Steam Deck every minute of the show but this time there’s a hard limit of 100.
No doubt that change is because the longer the show went on the more money it cost Valve, especially given Christopher Judge’s long, rambling acceptance speech, for best actor as Kratos in God Of War Ragnarök.
Since a 1TB Steam Deck costs £569 his eight minute long speech will have cost Valve several thousand dollars. Although, let’s face it, they can afford it.
The Steam Deck OLED models were only released recently but Valve has insisted that a Steam Deck 2 won’t be out until 2025 at the earliest, so what they’re giving away this week is going to remain the top-of-the-line version for a while.
Unlike some of Valve’s other hardware ventures, Steam Deck has proven a great success and inspired a whole host of other PC-based portable devices, such as the Asus ROG Ally.
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