Watching The Game Awards (Ugh) Might Win You A Free Steam Deck

If you’ve been wanting Valve’s moveable PC console, the Steam Deck, however lack the spare money, Valve will probably be gifting away a ton of them totally free throughout subsequent week’s annual broadcast of The Game Awards. All it’s a must to do is watch The Game Awards via Valve’s streaming website. Oh, yeah: Remember when Valve launched a streaming website?

Yes, 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 show” will air on December 8 to toss out a couple of awards as rapidly as potential between dozens of trailers, advertisements, and commercials for DLC and enlargement passes. But in case you resolve to observe the entire thing this 12 months—which might typically run practically three hours—you would possibly at the least have the ability to win a Steam Deck on your troubles.

As introduced November 30, Valve is celebrating The Game Awards with an enormous Steam Deck giveaway. The firm will probably be giving out a free handheld PC to a single individual each minute for your entire run of The Game Awards. (Never in historical past has somebody wished The Game 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 Game 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 mainly deserted not lengthy after launch. But like so many Valve merchandise it lingers on, like a zombie.

As with any giveaway or contest of this nature, it has some further guidelines and restrictions to concentrate on, such that it’s solely open to people within the United States, Canada, the UK, or the EU. You additionally must have purchased one thing on Steam within the final 12 months, and your account have to be in good standing. If you test all these packing containers you may 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 in the long run?

Well, I assume you’ll be much less of a winner if it’s a must to sit via The Game Awards.