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Steam Frame specs now tell a much bigger story than Valve’s setup videos alone. Valve’s own Steam Frame hardware page lays out the headset’s physical design, controller system and developer-kit program. The upcoming wireless headset is meant for streamed PC play and stand-alone SteamOS play. It is not simply a QR-code onboarding device.

A Steam Deck OLED costs $549 and runs Cyberpunk 2077 at roughly 30 frames per second. A GPD Win 5 costs up to $2,955 and pushes the same game past 60 frames per second at a sharper resolution. That gap sits at the center of the biggest question in handheld PC gaming right now: how…

In 1844, the Dutch informed the Tokugawa shogunate of the existence of steam ships, but the military government wasn’t interested in the idea. In 1855, the lord of the Satsuma domain commissioned a successful construction of the first Japanese steam-powered boat but news of that was mostly drowned out by the arrival of Commodore Perry…

The handheld gaming PC market just got its clearest fork in the road yet. On one side sits Valve’s Steam Deck OLED, a device that has spent three years proving that a Linux-based, console-like handheld can outsell expectations and keep getting cheaper relative to its power. On the other is Asus and Microsoft’s joint effort,…

Gamers have found a novel way to build their own custom Steam Machines: Repurposed crypto-mining hardware based on the PS5 APU. The BC-250 board includes everything you need to get a gaming system up and running, and with SteamOS and a few tweaks, you can get Steam-Machine-like performance for a lot less, as Tom’s Hardware…