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Valve engineer confirms the Steam Machine won't be subsidized – here's why I'm fearing the worst for the price

The dream of a $500 compact gaming PC has been dashed – but how much might the Steam Machine cost in the end?

Steam Machine price "more in line with what you might expect from the current PC market," confirms Valve – but "ideally we'd be pretty competitive with that and have a pretty good deal"

Steam Machine price "more in line with what you might expect from the current PC market," confirms Valve – but "ideally we'd be pretty competitive with that and have a pretty good deal"

It makes sense, "at that level of performance"

Valve Employees Earn More Than Google, Apple & Meta Combined - Here's How Much They Earn And Bring In To The Company

Valve Employees Earn More Than Google, Apple & Meta Combined - Here's How Much They Earn And Bring In To The Company

Discover how Valve's lean 350-person team drives £11B Steam revenue, eclipsing tech giants in PC gaming

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Valve: Steam Machine Price to be 'In Line with Current PC Market,' Bring Users a 'Good Deal'

Valve has addressed the Steam Machine's price tag and has assured users that it would be in line with the PC market.

Valve coder confirms the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, albeit at a 'good deal': 'If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general price window that we aim to be at'

The Steam Machine's price isn't certain yet, but don't expect it to come subsidized.

The upcoming Steam Machine won't be 'subsidized' like consoles to hit a more attractive price target, suggesting high relative pricing — Valve engineer confirms the device competes with only the PC market

Leaving out the price for the Steam Machine at Valve's 2026 hardware lineup reveal has turned the internet into rumor mill vultures, but now Valve itself has given us a big hint at what the device would cost. The company has confirmed the Steam Machine won't be subsidized like consoles,…

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Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year

Valve is estimated to make $16.2 billion from Steam alone in 2025.

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A 'small update' just shook up Deadlock's basic mechanics and tweaked nearly every hero

A 'small update' just shook up Deadlock's basic mechanics and tweaked nearly every hero

The trooper changes invite comparison to, of all games, Heroes of the Storm.

A former Valve dev revealed how, while a VR version of Half-Life 2 was being made, a single metro cop's toe created a 'time-travelling' bug that softlocked all versions of the game

A former Valve dev revealed how, while a VR version of Half-Life 2 was being made, a single metro cop's toe created a 'time-travelling' bug that softlocked all versions of the game

The story of a toe, a door, and a very elusive bug.

Half-Life 3 Update: Geoff Keighley Crushes Hopes With Simple Fortnite Explanation

Half-Life 3 Update: Geoff Keighley Crushes Hopes With Simple Fortnite Explanation

Geoff Keighley's viral 'portal' post sparked massive Half-Life 3 rumours, only to leave fans devastated by the truth.

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Steam Machine can transform into Portal Companion Cube with custom skin — dot matrix and E Ink faceplates will also be available

Steam Machine can transform into Portal Companion Cube with custom skin — dot matrix and E Ink faceplates will also be available

Dbrand and Jsaux Gaming teased custom covers and cases for the upcoming Steam Machine.

Tom’s Hardware

Forget the weird Steam Machine controller – tell me what’s your favourite controller of all time

Forget the weird Steam Machine controller – tell me what’s your favourite controller of all time

Can the latest Xbox Wireless Controller reign supreme? Or is it the PS5 DualSense? Or maybe something else? Have your say.

Ex Valve designer reveals the door and big toe that retroactively broke Half-Life 2: "This isn't a normal bug - it appears to have traveled backwards in time and infected the original!"

Ex Valve designer reveals the door and big toe that retroactively broke Half-Life 2: "This isn't a normal bug - it appears to have traveled backwards in time and infected the original!"

"The two biggest bug-farms in gamedev - doors and floating point - contrived to make a simple NPC placement bug into quite the time-travelling palaver"

Joining Valve's Gabe Newell at the altar of AI, Ubisoft CEO says the controversial tech will be "as big a revolution for our industry as the shift to 3D"

Joining Valve's Gabe Newell at the altar of AI, Ubisoft CEO says the controversial tech will be "as big a revolution for our industry as the shift to 3D"

Ubisoft is using generative AI "in all our studios and offices"

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Former Xbox exec and Blizzard boss urges Valve to "please just let 3rd parties use SteamOS" to make their own Steam Machines: "SteamOS will take off and your Store revenue will only go up"

Although some argue that goes against what the Steam Deck's best asset is

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$2B Counter-Strike 2 crash exposes a legal black hole: Your digital investments aren’t really yours

In late October 2025, as much as US$2 billion vanished from a digital marketplace. This wasn’t a hack or a bubble bursting. It happened because one company, Valve, changed the rules for its video game Counter-Strike 2, a popular first-person shooter with a global player base of nearly 30 million…

Rust dev shoots down hopes of playing the hit survival game on Valve's Steam Machine: "There are no plans to support Proton or Linux"

Compatibility would open the game to cheaters

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Valve Hints Steam Machine Pricing Will Be Higher Than Console-Level Expectations

$500? Keep dreaming.

It’s now been 27 years and 1 day since Half-Life 1’s launch, and despite all the leaks, it still isn’t a trilogy

Foreseen consequences?

Even as Xbox drifts away from consoles and exclusives, former exec says the Xbox 360 set Microsoft up for success: "Look at them now, continuing to be the powerhouse – the global powerhouse"

Rust developer has 'no plans' for Linux or Proton support, says games that support them are 'not serious about anti-cheat'

So much for my Steam Machine plans.

Asked about a $500 Steam Machine, Valve apparently wasn't impressed: "The energy in the room wasn't great"

The GabeCube might be "priced like a PC rather than like a console"

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Windows is 40 years old today — but its future has never been less certain

With Windows turning 40, we take a look at how it got here, the current state of the platform, and whether or not it will even be here in another 40 years.

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Halo is revived in this Counter-Strike 2 mod while Halo Infinite says goodbye — Project Misriah brings classic multiplayer to CS2

Classic Halo multiplayer returns inside Counter-Strike 2 with Project Misriah, a fan-made mod that's live now.

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