The Elite Institute’s first long look at Gunman Contracts – Stand Alone finds sharp gunplay, thin enemy AI, and about an hour of story contracts for $24.99 on Steam.
Valve pushed SteamVR 2.17 to stable on September 10 with Deck-style Quick Access, Steam Link fixes, and 32-bit OpenXR — runtime work that lands before Steam Frame’s still-unannounced ship date.
Cosmos quietly adds eye-tracked foveated rendering to SteamVR. The audience is the Steam Frame wave, not today’s tiny eye-tracking install base.
Sixteen days from Meta Connect 2026: confirmed dates and livestream, glasses-led framing, 2027 headset roadmap, Hologram software signals, and Steam Frame colliding with Connect week. Rumor vs confirmed.
Source VR Mod Team’s free Half-Life 2: VR Mod is now Steam Frame Verified after eye-tracked foveated rendering and a long optimization pass. Frame launch week makes the badge matter.
Dataminer Brad Lynch flagged a Steam Frame reservation system for two SKUs after the September package refresh. September 14 shipping is still rumor; Valve has not named a price.
SteamDB/store packages for Steam Frame were revised after months of quiet — the same class of backend change that preceded Steam Machine pre-orders. Reservation chatter points to early September; Valve still has not confirmed.
Developers got invites for a September 14–21 Steam VR sale. Valve still has not named a Steam Frame ship day, and U.S. summer ends September 22.
The Alyx-mod-turned-standalone shooter locks Early Access for September 10 and drops its same-day Steam Frame promise—ending its run as a Frame calendar proxy.
A Komodo Station supplier page details an official Arcturus Vision Camera add-on for Valve’s Steam Frame—dual 32MP sensors, 5K stereo capture—while the headset itself still lacks a public price or ship date.