Valve’s Steam Machine targets an early 2026 release date with an AMD RDNA 3 GPU and 16GB DDR5, giving you smooth 4K play with ...

The decades-long debate between PC and consoles has stratified gaming into a kind of caste system. If you want ...

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“Seventy percent of gaming PCs on Steam are slower than this box.” That’s the performance claim Valve engineer Yazan Aldehayyat made when introducing the new Steam Machine a compact, console-like PC ...

It is such a good time for handheld gaming. Now that the Switch showed how good that larger handheld can be and Valve’s Steam Deck took hold, so many other companies are making and selling handheld ...

Thanks to powerful mobile processors and more compact components, a new generation of handheld PC gaming is here. These portable consoles are a worthwhile consideration over spending loads on a gaming ...

As part of the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Steam service this week, Valve has launched a one-week discount of its popular Linux-based Steam Deck portable gaming PC. From now until September ...

It's been a long time coming, but Windows 11 has finally garnered enough steam behind it (pun intended) to take over as the dominant OS on gaming PCs. While there's still some ground for Windows 11 to ...

This week Valve unveiled a next-gen Steam Machine that blurs the lines between a gaming PC and a game console, a new Steam Controller, and a new VR headset called the Steam Frame. While each device is ...