The Steam Frame, Steam Machine, Steam Deck, and Steam Controller. | Image: Valve
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, and 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 has no news about Steam Deck 2
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
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
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
