A major computer manufacturer thinks prices are going to stay high for good, and that's bad news for next-gen consoles.

The Steam Machine is a pricey proposition compared to a PS5, but some perks do help sweeten a tough deal.

Sarfraz is an avid PC enthusiast who has a decade of experience in PC hardware. He has written extensively on all types of consumer PC components and peripherals on Xtremegaminerd since the time when ...

We’ve been calling the Steam Machine a video game console because that’s what little boxes that play games and sit next to ...

Valve engineers reveal how global RAM and storage shortages pushed the 2026 Steam Machine price up by 35%, jumping from an ...

This pricey cube won’t win any console wars — but could it rise above them? My first day with the Steam Machine was a mess.

Valve says the Steam Machine is designed around an open PC ecosystem rather than the subsidized, locked-down pricing model ...

The death of PC gaming. That’s been the topic at hand for the past several weeks, with port after port after port arriving on PC in disastrous states. PC gaming isn’t dead, but if this trend continues ...

Valve has officially revealed Steam Machine pricing, with the new SteamOS-powered gaming PC starting at $1,049 ahead of ...

Zainab is a writer, cinephile, and gamer—though that ranking depends entirely on the day’s mood swings. When she’s not writing for Game Rant, she’s probably ugly crying over Dostoevsky (or multifandom ...

Although we might all fundamentally recognize that gaming consoles are just specialized computers, we generally treat them, culturally and physically, differently than we do desktops or laptops. But ...