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” ...

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Valve has provided the strongest indication yet that the Steam Machine price will be set with similar performance PCs in mind, and confirmed it has no plans to subsidize the hardware like console ...

The Steam Machine is the new PC gaming-focused console revealed by Valve in November 2025. Alongside this reveal, we also got our first look at the new Steam Controller and new VR headset, titled the ...

Corinne Reichert (she/her) grew up in Sydney, Australia and moved to California in 2019. She holds degrees in law and communications, and currently writes news, analysis and features for CNET across ...

A few years ago, I had lunch with the head of a major motion picture studio, who declared that his central problem was not finding good people—it was finding good ideas. Since then, when giving talks, ...

As part of Valve's big hardware announcements today, the company did not disclose a price for the new Steam Machine device. Hardware engineer Yazan Aldehayyat was asked in an interview about what ...

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Apple, Google, and Microsoft all offer free parental control apps or settings to help you keep your kids safer online. We walk you through the benefits and drawbacks of each. I review privacy tools ...

Valve Software, creator of Steam, remains privately held, unlikely to IPO soon. Alternative investment options include shares in other public gaming firms like EA or Take-Two. Interested in gaming ...