Half-Life 3, the non-existent sequel to one of the most legendary video game series of all time, has achieved an almost mythical status. It’s been 18 years since Half-Life 2: Episode 2’s cliffhanger ...

After the first Steam Machine launched in 2015, Valve gained a reputation for releasing hardware and leaving it to die, alone and unsupported. It's an accurate representation. Valve launched the Steam ...

When you think of gaming PCs, you almost inevitably think of Windows-based hardware. However, Valve is hoping to change that mindset with the unveiling of the Steam Machine. It might even change your ...

James Ratcliff joined GameRant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a ...

Valve announced a new Steam Machine this week, and while I think it’s going to have a major impact on the next generation of gaming hardware – however PC-like that looks – there’s still one big ...

The Steam Machine is back from the dead. Not as a Valve-supported program for manufacturers to create living room PCs, but instead a home console sibling to the Steam Deck. Valve introduced its second ...

After Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine living room box earlier this month, some analysts suggested to Ars that Valve could and should aggressively subsidize that hardware with “loss leader” ...

So, the Valve Steam Machine is real. Except that should really be the Steam Machine 2.0, as this is Valve's second big attempt at a console-like PC games machine. All the way back in 2013, it first ...

It might be small, but Valve's Steam Machine carries with it the very real possibility of shaking up the console gaming landscape. The cube has the specs, form-factor, and library to stand toe-to-toe ...

Valve's unveiling of the Steam Machine has many of us excited about the yet-to-be-released gaming PC. Rocking an AMD Zen 4 CPU, an AMD RDNA 3 GPU, and up to 16GB of RAM, the box-shaped hardware isn't ...