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Many indie games arrive on platforms like Steam and itch.io long before making their way to consoles. Porting a game to systems like Nintendo Switch or PlayStation can be pricey, and indie studios ...

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This morning, we learned that November was a surprisingly bad month for video game spending across the board. Hardware dollar sales and physical software unit sales were both at the lowest we've seen ...

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After Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine living room box earlier this month, some analysts suggested to Ars that Valve could and should aggressively subsidize that hardware with “loss leader” ...

Why this is important: This isn’t just a UI tweak; it could change how handheld Windows gaming PCs feel and perform. Older devices often struggle with background overhead, inefficient power usage, and ...

The last time Valve tried creating a Steam Machine concept was about 10 years ago. Now, the company is giving it another go, with a series of new hardware devices coming in 2026. "Announcing new Steam ...

As much as console makers might prefer otherwise, the market has spoken — and it doesn’t seem to be asking for double the teraflops every seven years. (Yes, we know, there are dozens of you who are.) ...

The Steam Machine marks Valve’s long-awaited return to the console wars. It looks slick and sounds powerful enough to play modern games on decent settings. But Valve is leaving the biggest question of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Video games are big business, so plenty of companies want to jump on board as console makers.