Steam Deck Consoles Will Be Given Away Each Minute Of The Game Awards, How To Enter
It's exactly what it sounds like: the company is giving away hundreds of Steam Decks, completely free, during the entirety of Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards. There are plenty of catches, of course, but none so onerous as you might expect, at least for your general PC gamer in eligible regions (like, probably, most of you reading this).
Once that's done, just make sure to watch The Game Awards on Valve's streaming site, Steam.tv. There's an option on the page above to set a reminder on your Steam account, which can come via e-mail or via the service's mobile application. Make sure you have the Steam app, not just the new Steam Chat app, which is separate! You can also add reminders to Apple, Google or Office calendar services.
Surprisingly, while you might reasonably expect freely-given Steam Decks to be the low-cost 64GB version, that's not the case. Valve are in fact giving away the top-tier 512GB version of the Steam Deck to each lucky winner. That model comes with a scratch-resistant glass screen and a number of extras, including a fancier carrying case, a branded cleaning cloth, and a mesh pouch—to say nothing of the 512GB of high-speed NVMe storage inside.
If you can't or don't want to watch The Game Awards, you can also enter by snail mail for a separate drawing, which is why we said "hundreds" earlier. The instructions for how to do that are on Steam's rule page for the contest.
