In 2012, The Verge broke the news that Valve was making a game console. Gabe Newell himself dished on the company’s grand plans. By 2015, the “Steam Machines” had utterly flopped. But Valve never stopped quietly working on the idea. The Steam Deck handheld became the seed for a grand reboot of Valve’s console and headset ambitions. And now, Steam Machines are back.
The new Steam Machine is for your TV, the Steam Controller is for your hands, the Steam Frame is for your face, and they might just be the start. The company hinted there might be more SteamOS hardware later on.
We’re tracking Valve’s rebooted hardware plans in this Verge StoryStream. And if you want to know how we got here, it also contains our original Steam Machine coverage — going back over a decade.
- Valve enters the console wars
- Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console
- The Steam Frame is a surprising new twist on VR
- Valve’s new Steam Controller might be my dream controller
- Here’s the secret Steam Machine that Valve probably used to test headsets.
- Valve’s master plan for Steam Machines is finally coming into focus
- In case you missed it, the Dreamcast-shaped EmuDeck Machine is dead.
- Remember Steam Machines? EmuDeck founder revisits Valve’s TV console idea
- Wait, wait… HDMI and DisplayPort could’ve been a single port THIS WHOLE TIME?
- Farewell to the Steam Link, the best wireless HDMI gadget ever made (update: it’s $2.50)
- Gaming performance on Valve’s SteamOS can’t keep up with Windows
- Valve’s first Steam Machines and controller have been officially released
- Alienware’s Alpha console will bring Steam to your living room this November
- Valve delays Steam Machines and controller until 2015
- Valve shows off updated Steam Controller design
- Valve posts entirety of Steam Dev Days to YouTube, explaining its console and VR strategy
- Steam In-Home Streaming lets you play away from your PC
- Steam Controller ditches the touchscreen for better backwards compatibility
- Alienware’s Steam Machine will arrive in September
- SteamOS now supports Intel and AMD graphics
- Valve reportedly about to release a standard interface for virtual reality controllers
- Steam Machines are here: how Alienware is realizing Valve’s console dream
- Valve announces 13 Steam Machine partners, including Alienware
- CyberPowerPC Steam Machine will compete with consoles at $499
- Digital Storm details its first Steam Machine: a hybrid Windows and SteamOS combo for $1,899
- Valve reportedly has 12 Steam Machine partners
- You can download SteamOS right now
- SteamOS will be available to download on December 13th
- Digital Storm’s first Steam Machine will be a $1,469 gaming PC
- Piixl Jetpack straps a SteamOS PC to the back of your TV
- iBuyPower’s Steam Machine offers PC specs for the price of a new Xbox
- Valve says it wouldn’t make ‘Half-Life 3’ a SteamOS exclusive
- We play with the Steam Machine, Valve’s game console of the future
- John Carmack says odds of Steam Machines being successful are ‘a little bit dicey’
- Valve demonstrates how its Steam Controller works with your favorite PC games
- Here’s what’s inside Valve’s first Steam Machine prototypes
- Valve’s Steam Box won’t challenge consoles, says ‘Borderlands’ studio boss
- Valve unveils the Steam Controller
- Valve announces Steam Machines, the Steam Box hardware beta
- SteamOS: could Valve’s game console challenge Windows?
- Valve announces SteamOS, a living-room operating system for games
- Valve’s Steam Box teased for Monday reveal on official countdown page
- Valve’s Steam Box could be revealed next week
- Xi3 opens $999.99 pre-orders for Piston gaming ‘console PC’ (update 2)
- Valve will hand out Steam Box prototypes ‘in the next three to four months’
- Valve’s Gabe Newell addresses layoffs: ‘We aren’t canceling any projects’
- Valve reportedly fires more employees as part of ‘great cleansing’
- Valve fires Jeri Ellsworth, who was developing Steam Box game controllers
- How Valve’s Steam Box will reinvent the game console as you know it
- Gabe Newell says Apple is the Steam Box’s biggest threat
- ‘Steam was broken’ without a route to the living room, says Valve’s Greg Coomer
- Valve confirms it’s building a Linux-based Steam Box that will act as a local gaming server for all your screens
- Exclusive interview: Valve’s Gabe Newell on Steam Box, biometrics, and the future of gaming
- Valve’s Steam Box gets big push at CES as Gabe Newell meets with major hardware partners
- Gabe Newell says Valve will release its own console-like PC for the living room
- Connect the dots: Valve’s Big Picture could be a Linux game console
- Valve says it’s jumping into the computer hardware business
- Valve hiring an engineer to help with ‘hardware design’ in its R&D labs
- Valve: we won’t be releasing a Steam Box console in the immediate future
- Exclusive: Valve said to be working on ‘Steam Box’ gaming console with partners, could announce at GDC
