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Valve’s exciting new Steam Machinegaming desktop has landed, but it’s not the affordable dream machine many PC gamers expected. That’s due in no small part to the skyrocketing prices for memory and graphics cards we’ve seen over the past year or so. It makes sense that fans were hyped for an affordable gaming product, at long last.…

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…

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…

Valve’s decision to officially support SteamOS 3.8 on standard gaming PCs has opened the door to an entirely new class of Steam Machines – without requiring gamers to buy Valve’s own hardware. Now, a new benchmark from YouTuber ETA Prime suggests that a high-end AMD-powered mini PC can outperform Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine by a…

If you’re reading this article, chances are you’ve noticed how Valve’s new Steam Machine has the gaming world all excited. With memory and graphics card prices through the roof, due to part shortages and sky-high demand, any remotely affordable product is bound to draw attention. That’s why so much hype built up around the Steam Machine before it launched.…

Launching new gaming hardware has one brutal, recurring problem, and it is not the silicon. It is the library. A new platform with no games is dead on arrival, which is why console makers spend years and fortunes courting exclusives and begging developers to port their catalogs. Every new device starts at zero and has…