Valve articles

An indie developer says Steam's refund policy cost his well-reviewed game 55,000 refunds

The Steam Machine now has official Windows drivers

Steam Machine owner reports a "Red Line of Death" days after launch, but it fixed itself

Former PlayStation boss calls Valve's Steam Machine "meh," asks if he's "going back to PS4 days"

Dbrand kills its Portal-inspired Companion Cube case after admitting it never asked Valve for permission

You can now buy a pre-built gaming PC that boots into Steam instead of Windows

The Steam Machine is sold out, overpriced, can't quite do 4K – and now scalpers are asking $3,000 for it

Valve quietly changes Steam Machine's 4K/60fps claim after performance criticism

SteamOS 3.8.10 is Valve's biggest step yet toward taking on Windows

Valve is working with Intel, AMD, and Nvidia to make SteamOS run on any PC hardware

Forward-looking: Valve's Steam Machine signals the company's willingness to push Steam beyond software and into a proper hardware platform. But hardware is only half the story. Alongside gaming devices, Valve has been quietly laying the groundwork for something potentially more significant: a version of SteamOS that runs on just about any PC you care to throw at it.

Valve confirms FSR 4 for Steam Machine, AMD releases FSR 4.1 for RDNA 3 GPUs

Valve's Steam Machine is here: starts at $1,049 for 512GB or $1,349 for the 2TB version

Highly anticipated: After months of delays and growing anxiety about memory prices, Valve has officially confirmed pricing, configurations, and a June 30 launch date for its Steam Machine. The living-room gaming box starts at $1,049 for a 512GB model and climbs to $1,349 for the 2TB version – a significant premium over the sub-$750 figure that had been anticipated when Valve announced the hardware in November 2025. Getting one at launch, however, is far from guaranteed.

A developer ported Half-Life to a Nokia N95, and it runs at 30fps with Bluetooth keyboard support

Valve says physical Steam Gift Cards are being discontinued after years of scams

Valve confirms Steam Machine and Steam Frame are still shipping this summer

AMD CPUs hit another Steam survey record as Intel gap shrinks to all-time low

Gabe Newell says Steam doesn't pressure developers on pricing, emails suggest otherwise

Valve's Steam Machine may cost more than today's Steam Deck OLED

Rumor mill: It's the most debated question in the gaming community right now: how much is Valve going to charge for the Steam Machine when it finally arrives? The answer, according to a reliable leaker, is probably a lot more than you'd think.

Steam Deck OLED is back in stock with a $300 price hike

Steam Machine may launch soon as reservation system and four retail packages surface

Steam Controller sells out in 30 minutes as scalpers push prices to $300

Winners & losers: The Steam Controller is here! Well, it was here for a whole 30 minutes before it sold out. Predictably, the $99 device has already been grabbed by a slew of scalpers who are charging around $300, and sometimes more, for one on eBay.

Steam Survey: AMD's CPU gains stall as Nvidia's final RTX 5000 desktop GPU appears

What just happened? The latest Steam survey has dropped. Last month's results show that the final RTX 5000-series desktop card has now entered the main GPU chart, nearly one year after it launched. Elsewhere, Intel's excellent Core Ultra 200 Plus series may have started to influence the CPU results as AMD failed to move the needle in its favor during April.

Steam Controller reviews are in: $99 price tag and dual trackpad design confirmed

First look: Full reviews for Valve's Steam Controller are now live. Critics broadly praise the hardware, including drift-resistant TMR sticks, rear grip buttons, Steam Input customization, and a more refined take on the dual-trackpad concept that defined the original controller. Several reviewers also point to tight integration with the broader Steam ecosystem as one of the controller's biggest strengths.

Portal 2: Community Edition enters open beta with enhanced graphics, larger maps, and new modding tools

The big picture: Portal 2, which recently celebrated its 15th anniversary, continues to receive mods, but its implementation of Valve's Source engine is showing its age. To address that, modders have spent the past several years building a new version of the game, with Valve's blessing, that enables enhanced graphics, larger maps, and more complex fan-made campaigns.