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Valve's Steam Machine, a small black cube console, sits on a wooden cabinet beside a fishbowl in a living room.
Gaming·

Valve's Steam Machine is back after 14 years, and reviewers are split on the price

Valve's Steam Machine is a tiny, silent SteamOS console that starts at $1,049. The hardware impresses, the value doesn't, and here's who should actually buy one.

Valve's Steam Machine, a small cube-shaped living-room PC console, shown in its product render.
Gaming·

Valve's Steam Machine starts at $1,049, not the $750 it planned. The RAM shortage ate the difference.

Valve's living-room console launches at $1,049 to $1,428. Here's what's inside, why the price ballooned, and how SteamOS lets you skip the hardware entirely.

SteamOS 3.8 promotional capsule art from Valve's release notes
Gaming·

SteamOS 3.8 now runs on the ROG Ally, not just Valve's Steam Deck

SteamOS 3.8 is stable, with a new kernel, Steam Machine support, and official builds for the ROG Ally and other handhelds. The Windows monopoly on handhelds just cracked.

Doom running on Bazzite Linux on a handheld gaming device
Open Source·

Elizabeth Figura's NTSYNC driver shipped in Linux 6.14. Wine 11 retired esync and fsync over it.

Linux 6.14 merged the NTSYNC driver Elizabeth Figura wrote at CodeWeavers. SteamOS 3.7.20 loads it by default; Wine 11 went mainline on it. Here's what changed.

Steam Controller hardware shown from above
Gaming·

Valve open-sourced the Steam Controller's shell. Dbrand had a skin ready in 48 hours.

Valve published STP and STL CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 on GitLab. Anyone with a 3D printer can now mod it.

Steam Controller hardware press image.
Gaming·

$99 Steam Controller leak: a YouTuber broke embargo and Reddit thinks it's too much

Tech YouTuber Techy Talk pulled an early Steam Controller review minutes after posting. The leaked $99 price, gyro, and magnetic TMR sticks have already split fans.