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Valve’s Steam Machine is a bizarre little device. We’ve covered the five things you need to know going in when buying one of the “Half-Life” company’s Linux gaming devices, but which Nvidia graphics card is the equivalent? Well, if you haven’t been keeping tabs on the benchmarks floating around, things might surprise you: it’s not…

Steam has a new free PC game without a single negative review. In other words, the free Steam game has a 100% approval rating. It’s a small number of reviews and, of course, the expectations for a free game on Steam are much lower than any given premium game releasing on the Valve platform. That…

Gamers desperate for news on Valve’s VR headset may soon hear an official update. Reliable insider SadlyItsBradley appeared on a Gamertag VR podcast to discuss recent leaks. He verified reports of a September Steam Frame release date and said the company had already mailed review samples.

Valve’s Great on Frame page listed 98 certified titles Thursday morning, up from eight on July 17. Nina counted them herself with Steam’s frame_compatibility filter instead of waiting on somebody else’s tracker, which is the right instinct and a habit worth stealing. The names are the part that got me. Beat Saber. Job Simulator. Pistol…

If your budget is under a thousand dollars, we recommend skipping the Steam Machine for this PowerSpec pre-built gaming PC.

The Steam Deck is one of the most popular modern handheld gaming platforms on the market (the Nintendo Switch is the most popular), and it’s easy to see why. The Steam Deck is basically a gaming PC that is easier to bring on long trips than a laptop. But all that portability comes at a…

TL;DR: NVIDIA will end Game Ready and Studio driver support for Windows 10 in November 2026, issuing a final compatible driver in October 2026 and only quarterly security updates until October 2029; about 23% of Steam users still run Windows 10, so users must upgrade to Windows 11 to get ongoing driver optimizations. Voice: Jak…

Fans were expecting Valve to reveal the Steam Frame’s price and release date during the company’s 30th anniversary on August 24. However, the milestone came and went without any announcement. Despite that, it now looks like the VR headset’s launch could be very close.

Valve’s Steam Deck OLED and the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X sit at opposite ends of the same idea: a handheld PC you can hold in two hands and play real games on. One runs Linux and costs less than it did last year. The other runs Windows 11, packs a newer Ryzen chip, and…

Every Steam Deck effectively ships as two separate machines bundled into one handheld device. Gaming Mode is the console-style interface most owners live in day to day, but underneath it sits a full KDE Plasma desktop that turns the handheld into a genuine Linux PC. Valve built it that way on purpose. As Valve engineer…