The PC hardware market is uniquely hostile to disruption. It thrives on competition, secondhand value, modular upgrades, and ...

Valve launched Steam in 2003 in order to digitally distribute the Half-Life series and their other titles, as well as a way ...

Steam Machines are back for the first time since Valve teamed up with manufacturers like Alienware and Lenovo back in the 2010s. But while those original console-PC hybrids failed because of a lack of ...

The Steam Machine console allows users to play PC games on their TV. This cube-shaped device features an LED light strip and a USB port. Valve, the company behind the Steam Machine, said the console ...

The dream of a new Half-Life game launching alongside the Steam Machine lives on, although you might be paying a high price for the latter.

Although there are plenty of rumors about Valve’s Half-Life 3, it’d be great to see previous entries appear on modern ...

Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine is far more of a console than it is any variety of PC. As much as the PC gaming audience wants to hold onto Valve as their personal darling, the makers of Half-Life and ...

TL;DR: Valve's upcoming Steam Machine, launching in early 2026, is a compact, powerful console-PC hybrid featuring custom AMD RDNA 3 hardware capable of 4K 60 FPS gaming with FSR upscaling. Running ...

There’s a new block on the block, or at least there will be soon. The Steam Machine, Valve’s new cuboid mini gaming PC disguised as a game console is coming early next year. And that’s exciting! I ...

TL;DR: Valve's new Steam Machine poses a significant threat to Microsoft's Xbox strategy by potentially dominating the PC-console hybrid market. As Microsoft aims to merge Xbox and Windows for gaming, ...