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A ten-year-old asking to buy a $70 game on a Saturday morning is not a hypothetical for most households running a PS5, an Xbox, or a gaming PC in 2026. It’s a weekly event. How that request gets handled, and whether the rest of the family can even play the game once it’s bought, depends…

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U.S. prosecutors have accused a Florida man of uploading fake video games that contained malware to Steam, the popular PC games platform. Once victims downloaded and installed the games, the malware was designed to infect their computers, steal their passwords and other data, and drain their crypto wallets, according to a criminal complaint.

Valve’s new Steam Machine started shipping on The Steam Machine officially launched on June 30, 2026, with units shipping that day, dropping a $1,049 living-room PC into a market Microsoft’s Xbox Series X has owned since November 2020. The base Steam Machine costs $399 more than a Series X disc console today, and that gap…

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Many fans of the Valve Steam Machine passionately defend the console online against arguments that compare the Steam Machine to prebuilt gaming PCs. Since the Steam Machine’s launch, these arguements have revolved around the assertion that the Steam Machine resembles traditional consoles like the PS5 more than it does a prebuilt gaming PC, as you…

If you don’t care for the super compact nature of the Steam Machine and the SteamOS, it can’t be argued that the Valve Steam Machine is a pretty bad deal from a gaming performance standpoint. Starting at $1,049.99, the Steam Machine features a GPU that is generally slower than a 3-year-old, entry-level RX 7600, 16…

When Valve wants to show what a machine is really for, it doesn’t hold a keynote — it builds a certification page. So the quietest thing the company has shipped for its coming standalone VR headset is also the most revealing: a ‘Great on Frame’ section, tucked inside the Steam store, that sorts games by…