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Start with what just happened. On Friday, Valve shipped a substantial SteamVR update to beta channel users: a rebuilt dashboard with Steam Deck style quick access controls, cleaner overlay management, battery readouts, brightness controls, faster paths to achievements and guides. Road to VR read it the same way I do. You do not repaint the…

Valve’s Steam Machine got more than its share of flak at launch. The primary criticisms were centred around its price, which Valve insists is high due to the ongoing memory crisis. However, the console seems to be selling quite well despite its premium price tag. According to an analysis by Boiling Steam, the SteamOS-powered gaming…

Steam Machine engineer Yazan Aldehayyat comments on the hardware launch and the memory supply issues. These comments come after Valve launched its take on a living-room gaming PC for over $1,000.

Valve has finally released the Steam Machine, a PC running SteamOS that effectively brings the Steam Deck experience to the big screen. It’s undoubtedly an amazing little machine, but thanks to global component price increases, not everyone is thrilled with a starting price of $1,049 without an included controller.

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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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