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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Valve — the unusually managed game company responsible for managing the biggest gaming platform on earth, Steam — occasionally sees fit to release some hardware. Such unannouncements are unexpected ...

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Valve has unveiled the Steam Machine - a compact, cube-shaped living-room gaming PC powered by an AMD 6-core Zen 4 CPU and a semi-custom RDNA 3 GPU with 28 compute units, claiming to deliver 4K @ 60 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...