The Steam Machine is Valve's new piece of hardware entering the scene as a mini PC built for living room gaming. I love a lot about it, had some issues with it, but overall came away from my time with it feeling very positive.

We’ve been calling the Steam Machine a video game console because that’s what little boxes that play games and sit next to the TV in your living room have been called for decades. Valve is adamant that this is not an accurate term for its device.

This dbrand Steam Machine Companion Cube is preposterously detailed, and even comes with a skin for your controller.

For this experiment, we do not recommend using your Steam Machine Companion Cube™ for anything other than display and encasing your Valve-manufactured gaming cube.

If you want a gaming PC that can run games up to 60fps with ray-tracing turned on, the Steam Machine might not be for you. In fact, some reviewers were struggling to get 60fps in newer games, even on medium graphics settings with ray-tracing turned off.

Valve seems to be taking another step toward launching the Steam Machine. Currently, images are surfacing online suggesting that initial test units have already been shipped. This means journalists

Valve's long-awaited PC games console – the Steam Machine – will reportedly be available to order next week

Steam Machine price leaks now point to $1,500 — a 50 percent jump above Valve’s original target — with a June 23 announcement reportedly seven days away. Here is what buyers need to know before then: the DRAM shortage driving the increase has no near-term fix,