The upcoming Steam Machine is listed as using HDMI 2.0 rather than HDMI 2.1, and a Valve rep has now explained why this is ...

The console gaming market has included a big three for decades, with Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo dominating the space by providing powerful consoles to fuel great couch gaming experiences. Sony's ...

I've never liked the term "console war". Leaving aside the questionable taste of aligning consoles with conflict, the war metaphor doesn't really work for the contest between platform holders. This ...

Why this is important: For years, Valve’s experiments in living-room gaming hardware, including the original Steam Machines. largely failed to establish a mainstream foothold. This launch flips that ...

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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 ...

When I first learned that Valve was going to release Steam Machines again, I groaned inwardly. Although I never bought one myself, I briefly had the chance to use one about nine years ago and wasn't ...

Valve is officially returning to its 2015 Steam Machine with a next-gen successor. Earlier today, Valve made a series of huge hardware announcements for its rapidly-expanding family of Steam Hardware.

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We will be updating our pages as more news comes in, but all are earmarked for early 2026 (which is pretty damn close already), and if Xbox is still thinking of the next console as being a PC-like, ...

The Steam Machine was announced just over a week ago now, and while we don’t know how much the Steam Machine will cost, we also don’t know when it’s actually going to come out. Right now, the only ...