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Home Assistant's update, CES 2026, and KDE's 1990s reboot: News roundup

HP's gaming brand, HyperX, just revealed an updated OMEN MAX 16 at CES 2026. It could be an impressive gaming laptop when it ...

Dell's Alienware Area-51 PC range is back for round two with AMD X3D chipsets, but it doesn't come in price peace

That's not to say the new AMD-powered Alienware Area-51 range isn't impressive, but the cheapest models showcased at CES 2026 ...
SlashGear

Valve Confirms What Everyone Feared About The Steam Machine's Pricing

Valve made waves last month upon the announcement of a slew of new Steam hardware. The company launched a sequel to the Steam Controller and course-corrected the metaverse with the Steam Frame. But ...
The Escapist

Will the Steam Machine take the Xbox’s place in the console wars?

While Microsoft has denied stepping away from hardware production outright, there’s no denying that the company’s decreasing reliance on first-party publishing will leave a gap in the console gaming ...
Gameranx

LTT Breakdown The Steam Machine Price

Valve has been cooking up hardware lately. They delivered a VR headset that was successful, and then they delivered the behemoth of a handheld PC, the Steam Deck. However, before that, they tried to ...
BGR

The Steam Machine's HDMI Port Has A Built-In Identity Crisis

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 ...
The Escapist

I’m worried about the Steam Machine’s price – and place in the market

Valve is once again attempting to break into the hardware market with its upcoming Steam Machine gaming PC. The success of the Steam Deck likely emboldened Valve to take another shot at selling ...
Game Rant

Worried About the Steam Machine's Price? There's Already a Cheaper Alternative

Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He is a lifelong gamer with a passion for a variety of genres. A connoisseur of everything from JRPGs and ...
Ars Technica

Valve’s Steam Machine looks like a console, but don’t expect it to be priced like one

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” ...
Gizmodo

You Shouldn’t Expect a Cheap Steam Machine

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. Reading time 4 minutes The ...
GamesIndustry

Valve: Steam Machine pricing will be "pretty competitive" with equivalent PCs

PC games giant Valve has said that its recently announced Steam Machine hardware will be a "good deal" when it comes to price. That's according to software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais, who appeared ...
Engadget

Valve says that the Steam Machine's price will be more 'in line with current PC market'

Valve shook up the gaming world with the announcement of the Steam Machine, but we're all still curious about the million-dollar question of pricing. While there's plenty of speculation, we finally ...