As Valve creeps into the traditionally console-dominated gaming space of the living room with its new Steam Machine, it not only opens itself to comparisons with the consoles that currently reside there, but also with how companies like Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo do business.
What is the Steam Machine? I must admit I've spent a good portion of my time with the thing trying to figure that question out. Valve will tell you, as they told us, that it's essentially been made for the people who want to bring their existing PC library - on Steam and elsewhere - to the living room. It's a noble goal, and one the company's been toying with for more than a decade, since its introduction of Big Picture Mode as far back as 2012, through the original wave of third-party Steam Machines that launched in 2015, to the Steam Link and beyond.
The Steam Machine is buyable at last! And it sure costs a pretty penny, as is probably to be expected here in the year of our lord and/or dark lord 2026. We've written a full user-focused review of the Steam Machine separately thanks to yours truly, but also it's important to confess something: I am not a technical expert, and nor will I ever be.
Now that you've hopefully absorbed everything Valve has announced for the Steam Machine, which is set to begin shipping through a reservation system relatively soon, it's time to look beyond. Valve has officially confirmed FSR 4, AMD's most advanced image upscaling technology, is coming to the Steam Machine.
The Pokémon Company has unveiled new details about its upcoming animated series, Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd & Pichu. Initially teased back in 2024, the stop-motion animation project is a collaboration between Pokémon and British animation studio Aardman, known for the award-winning Wallace and Gromit, and as Shaun the Sheep._43VnGqa.png?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp)
In case you are unfamiliar with the sci-fi video game space, one of its giants has come to a sudden and tragic end. Destiny 2 - a juggernaut in the genre - will no longer be receiving updates from its developer Bungie. While fans have flocked back to celebrate the title, it is nonetheless the end of an era.
The Witcher 4 developer CD Projekt Red believes it's yet to complete its "full redemption arc" after the disastrous 2020 launch of its open-world action-adventure game, Cyberpunk 2077.
The price of the Steam Machine is "significantly more" than Valve would have liked to launch it at, Valve has told Eurogamer, and it hasn't been able to make as many units of the new console-like PC as it wanted to, either.
Ultima designer Richard Garriott (AKA Lord British) has a plan to claim back the rights to his legendary RPG series from current owner EA. The trick to doing so? A rather obscure bit of copyright law from around 50 years ago.
Artsy hide-and-seek indie game Meccha Chameleon has put aside its camouflage and taken the spotlight, passing 7 million copies sold since its release less than two weeks ago.
Pearl Abyss has released another patch for Crimson Desert, its popular single player RPG spin-off from hit Korean MMO Black Desert.
Multiplayer has been brought to life in The Last of Us Part 2. Not by Sony, sadly, but by an enterprising modder who's released a new video showing some tense one-on-one shootouts.
Ubisoft co-founder, Claude Guillemot, has died in a plane crash.
Guild Wars, the legendary MMO series from ArenaNet, somehow never expanded into the collectible card game (CCG) genre. This will soon change, however, as Mistbound: Guild Wars Card Game was just revealed.
Robert Prince III – best known as Bobby Prince, the man behind the iconic score of the original Doom game – has died aged 81.
Leave a comment: