A few weeks ago, we built our own Steam Box with several goals in mind. We wanted to publish a clear, comprehensive guide to help our readers build their own Steam Box – but we also wanted to learn ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Valve kicked off its trio of announcements this week by unveiling its upcoming SteamOS, the Linux-based operating system targeted at small form factor ...

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When Valve announced its Steam Box in January at CES, we saw what was supposed to be a prototype of the console. Produced by Xi3, the little box shown was a very small form-factor PC, able to fit in ...

Xbox One? PS4? The final battle of the consoles!? Ha! I don't think so! There's nothing final about console of PC gaming now that Valve had upped the gaming ante by announcing no fewer than a dozen ...

Valve recently unveiled its grand plan for the long anticipated Steam Boxes. Now being called Steam Machines, Valve said that the new gaming consoles will be developed and sold by partners, but the ...

Hardware maker Xi3 is pushing back against Valve's attempts to distance itself from Xi3's $1,000 Piston PC-in-a-console, setting off a debate about what, precisely, is meant by the heavily ...

The announcement we've all been anxiously awaiting for the better part of a year -- the reveal of Valve's Steam Box -- has arrived. It turns out Valve's purportedly revolutionary games console is, it ...

Valve has been teasing an announcement that could be made today having to do with its Steam Box. The Steam Box is expected to be a hardware device designed specifically to play games downloaded off ...

It’s not a Steam Box, but they want us to believe it is: Xi3’s Piston might be the most confusing product in gaming this year, thanks to some muddled messaging and a deal with Valve that never went ...

Some Steam sales are wide open things: Any game can take part in one of the big four seasonal sales, for instance, as long as they're on sale during the relevant season. There are also more specific ...