Watching The Recreation Awards (Ugh) May Win You A Free Steam Deck

For those who’ve been wanting Valve’s moveable PC console, the Steam Deck, however lack the spare money, Valve might be making a gift of a ton of them totally free throughout subsequent week’s annual broadcast of The Recreation Awards. All it’s important to do is watch The Recreation Awards by Valve’s streaming website. Oh, yeah: Bear in mind when Valve launched a streaming website?

Sure, the annual montage of trailers and advertisements dressed up as a gaming present in a determined effort to cover its true nature is again. The “award present” will air on December 8 to toss out a number of awards as shortly as attainable between dozens of trailers, advertisements, and commercials for DLC and growth passes. However if you happen to determine to observe the entire thing this yr—which may usually run practically three hours—you would possibly not less than be capable to win a Steam Deck in your troubles.

As introduced November 30, Valve is celebrating The Recreation Awards with an enormous Steam Deck giveaway. The corporate might be giving out a free handheld PC to a single particular person each minute for all the run of The Recreation Awards. (By no means in historical past has somebody needed The Recreation Awards to run lengthy, till now…) To have an opportunity, you’ll must first register for the drawing, which you are able to do now, then watch The Recreation Awards through Valve’s Steam.TV web site.

What’s that, you ask? It’s a half-baked Steam-ified tackle Twitch that the corporate principally deserted not lengthy after launch. However like so many Valve merchandise it lingers on, like a zombie.

As with all giveaway or contest of this nature, it has some additional guidelines and restrictions to concentrate on, such that it’s solely open to of us in the US, Canada, the UK, or the EU. You additionally must have purchased one thing on Steam within the final 12 months, and your account should be in good standing. For those who examine all these bins you’ll be able to register now at this hyperlink. And if you register, you additionally get a cute animated Steam Deck emoji sticker. So actually, aren’t all of us winners ultimately?

Properly, I assume you’ll be much less of a winner if it’s important to sit by The Recreation Awards.