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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…

Valve confirmed Steam Frame back in November 2025, and by August 2026 it’s the headset every PC VR owner keeps asking about. The obvious point of comparison isn’t the Quest line, it’s Valve’s own Valve Index, the tethered headset that’s been the gold standard for SteamVR fidelity since 2019. One is a 185-gram wireless SteamOS…

The Piston V packs a well-specced gaming machine and work desktop into a dual-booting mini PC Piston V View 5 Images 1/5 The Piston V packs a well-specced gaming machine and work desktop into a dual-booting mini PC Piston V

Microsoft has quietly flipped a switch that changes what “the Xbox app” means. As of the week of August 17, 2026, the Xbox app on Windows PCs is no longer just a storefront for Microsoft’s own games and Game Pass library. It now surfaces titles a player owns on Steam, Epic Games Store, and other…

It’s been a month since we first saw a glimpse of the Steam Frame, which appeared as a “Great on Frame” page on the Steam store. This was followed by Portal 2 receiving an official Steam Frame compatibility rating. Valve didn’t stop there; they’re still working to expand the library of compatible games. Right now,…