Steam Machines Have Returned: All The News About Valve’s New Hardware Universe

The Steam Frame, Steam Machine, Steam Deck, and Steam Controller. | Image: Valve

In 2012, The Verge broke nan news that Valve was making a crippled console. Gabe Newell himself dished connected nan company’s expansive plans. By 2015, nan “Steam Machines” had utterly flopped. But Valve ne'er stopped softly moving connected nan idea. The Steam Deck handheld became nan seed for a expansive reboot of Valve’s console and headset ambitions. And now, Steam Machines are back.

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Hello from Valve headquarters! We conscionable saw nan Steam Machine, nan PC crippled console that’s not overmuch bigger than a container of Kleenex. It’s coming alongside nan sequel to nan Steam Controller, nan astir customizable gamepad ever made. It’s for illustration a Steam Deck for your TV pinch acold much capacity — capable to switch an Xbox aliases PlayStation successful your surviving room, perhaps? But mightiness beryllium priced much for illustration a PC… #valve #steammachine #steamcontroller #gaming #gametok

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The caller Steam Machine is for your TV, nan Steam Controller is for your hands, and nan Steam Frame is for your face— and they mightiness conscionable beryllium nan start. The institution hinted location mightiness beryllium much SteamOS hardware later on.

We’re search Valve’s rebooted hardware plans successful this Verge StoryStream. And if you want to cognize really we sewage here, it besides contains our original Steam Machine sum — going backmost complete a decade.

• Valve has nary news astir Steam Deck 2
• Valve enters nan console wars
• Our first look astatine nan Steam Machine, Valve’s eager caller crippled console
• The Steam Frame is simply a astonishing caller twist connected VR
• Valve’s caller Steam Controller mightiness beryllium my dream controller
• Here’s nan concealed Steam Machine that Valve astir apt utilized to trial headsets.
• Valve’s maestro scheme for Steam Machines is yet coming into focus
• In lawsuit you missed it, nan Dreamcast-shaped EmuDeck Machine is dead.
• Remember Steam Machines? EmuDeck laminitis revisits Valve’s TV console idea
• Wait, wait… HDMI and DisplayPort could’ve been a azygous larboard THIS WHOLE TIME?
• Farewell to nan Steam Link, nan champion wireless HDMI gadget ever made (update: it’s $2.50)
• Gaming capacity connected Valve’s SteamOS can’t support up pinch Windows
• Valve’s first Steam Machines and controller person been officially released
• Alienware’s Alpha console will bring Steam to your surviving room this November
• Valve delays Steam Machines and controller until 2015
• Valve shows disconnected updated Steam Controller design
• Valve posts entirety of Steam Dev Days to YouTube, explaining its console and VR strategy
• Steam In-Home Streaming lets you play distant from your PC
• Steam Controller ditches nan touchscreen for amended backwards compatibility
• Alienware’s Steam Machine will get successful September
• SteamOS now supports Intel and AMD graphics
• Valve reportedly astir to merchandise a modular interface for virtual reality controllers
• Valve announces 13 Steam Machine partners, including Alienware
• CyberPowerPC Steam Machine will compete pinch consoles astatine $499
• Digital Storm specifications its first Steam Machine: a hybrid Windows and SteamOS combo for $1,899
• Valve reportedly has 12 Steam Machine partners
• You tin download SteamOS correct now
• SteamOS will beryllium disposable to download connected December 13th
• Digital Storm’s first Steam Machine will beryllium a $1,469 gaming PC
• Piixl Jetpack straps a SteamOS PC to nan backmost of your TV
• iBuyPower’s Steam Machine offers PC specs for nan value of a caller Xbox
• Valve says it wouldn’t make ‘Half-Life 3’ a SteamOS exclusive
• We play pinch nan Steam Machine, Valve’s crippled console of nan future
• John Carmack says likelihood of Steam Machines being successful are ‘a small spot dicey’
• Valve demonstrates really its Steam Controller useful pinch your favourite PC games
• Here’s what’s wrong Valve’s first Steam Machine prototypes
• Valve’s Steam Box won’t situation consoles, says ‘Borderlands’ workplace boss
• Valve unveils nan Steam Controller
• Valve announces Steam Machines, nan Steam Box hardware beta
• SteamOS: could Valve’s crippled console situation Windows?
• Valve announces SteamOS, a living-room operating strategy for games
• Valve’s Steam Box teased for Monday uncover connected charismatic countdown page
• Valve’s Steam Box could beryllium revealed adjacent week
• Xi3 opens $999.99 pre-orders for Piston gaming ‘console PC’ (update 2)
• Valve will manus retired Steam Box prototypes ‘in nan adjacent 3 to 4 months’
• Valve’s Gabe Newell addresses layoffs: ‘We aren’t canceling immoderate projects’
• Valve reportedly fires much labor arsenic portion of ‘great cleansing’
• Valve fires Jeri Ellsworth, who was processing Steam Box crippled controllers
• How Valve’s Steam Box will reinvent nan crippled console arsenic you cognize it
• Gabe Newell says Apple is nan Steam Box’s biggest threat
• ‘Steam was broken’ without a way to nan surviving room, says Valve’s Greg Coomer
• Valve confirms it’s building a Linux-based Steam Box that will enactment arsenic a section gaming server for each your screens
• Exclusive interview: Valve’s Gabe Newell connected Steam Box, biometrics, and nan early of gaming
• Valve’s Steam Box gets large push astatine CES arsenic Gabe Newell meets pinch awesome hardware partners
• Gabe Newell says Valve will merchandise its ain console-like PC for nan surviving room
• Connect nan dots: Valve’s Big Picture could beryllium a Linux crippled console
• Valve says it’s jumping into nan machine hardware business
• Valve hiring an technologist to thief pinch ‘hardware design’ successful its R&D labs
• Valve: we won’t beryllium releasing a Steam Box console successful nan contiguous future