Valve rolled out the Steam Machine concept at CES 2014: Desktops that would be sized to compete with video game platforms in gamers’ living rooms, and run the company’s Linux-based SteamOS. Since then ...

ROLLAG, Minn. — Under a glassy-blue Minnesota sky, a billow of smoke comes from a steam-powered tractor, hurking itself across the landscape as it pulls ink-black earth to the sun. The land is being ...

An interesting piece of news has come our way through the ongoing E3 in the form of the Alienware Alpha which is a Steam Machine that looks like a console and runs the Windows 8.1 OS. Yes, the much ...

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PC hardware manufacturer Alienware has rebranded it’s first Steam Machine to the Alpha “games console”, dumping the Steam OS on the way and replacing it with Windows 8. Alienware and parent company ...

Remember Steam Machines? Valve’s console-style gaming PC rigs meant for the living room felt like they might revolutionize gaming when they were first announced. A few years later, they’re mostly ...

Valve has gone ahead and quietly hidden a link to its Steam Machines webpage from the Steam store itself, a move indicative of the ill-fated project to push a console-like transition for gaming PCs in ...

2012 was an important year for Valve. The company introduced Big Picture Mode - a Steam interface designed for the living room holy trinity of big TVs, joypads, and couches - it was also the year when ...

Alienware was the first PC maker out the door with an officially supported Steam Machine last fall. The Alienware Steam Machine also did double duty as the Alpha, a compact, powerful living-room PC ...

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