After Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine living room box earlier this month, some analysts suggested to Ars that Valve could and should aggressively subsidize that hardware with “loss leader” ...
Crystal ball: With Valve positioning the Steam Machine as a competitor to the current-gen consoles, many expected it to be priced as such – i.e., around or under $500. But a Valve engineer has ...
PC games giant Valve has said that its recently announced Steam Machine hardware will be a "good deal" when it comes to price. That's according to software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais, who appeared ...
The recent announcement from Valve of a new slate of hardware products has excited players, but while a revamped Steam Controller and an updated virtual reality headset, the Steam Frame, have drawn ...
I'm very much a console girl. Sure, I play plenty of games on PC, but I largely prefer the console experience. When a new game comes out, I don't have to worry about upgrading my PlayStation 5 or Xbox ...
Valve is set to release a new gaming console in 2026. The Steam Machine will run the Linux OS. The console also doubles as a PC. According to Gaming On Linux, the market share for Steam on Linux hit a ...
TL;DR: Valve designed the Steam Machine using data from its Steam Hardware Survey, targeting performance equal to or better than 70% of users' PCs. The console features an AMD RDNA 3 GPU with 28 ...
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Valve has announced a next-gen virtual reality headset, dubbed Steam Frame. Steam Frame differs from its predecessor, Valve Index, in that it can be used as a standalone VR headset, and even comes ...
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Valve's massive Steam hardware announcements included the first in-house designed Valve Steam Machine, and while most of its reception was positive, a number of critics have expressed skepticism about ...
Valve unveiled off a new gaming PC this week, giving Steam fans some new hardware to consider. The Steam Deck 2 didn't make an appearance—and it won't be showing up for some time, by the sound of it.