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Valve Confirms Steam Machine Sales Are Below Expectations
Valve Admits Steam Sales Are Not Great The more eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed in the last week or so that Steam Machines are no longer advertised on the store front page. There is, however, a very good reason for that. They’re simply not selling. While Valve has not…
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Alienware say Windows 10 is Killing Steam Machines
While Microsoft was apparently eschewing gamers with its mobile/desktop crossover operating system Window 8, developer Valve, owner of the Steam digital distribution service for games, partnered with a number of PC builders to create a PC box specifically aimed at gamers, the Steam Machine. Running the SteamOS, Steam Machines not…
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Steam Machines Still Not Taking Market by Storm
A year ago, Valve unveiled their first foray into the OS and PC with the Steam Machines and SteamOS. Seven months after launch, we are now getting out for indications of how well the Steam branded PCS have done. According to Valve, that number is somewhere below 500,000. This comes…
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Early Bird Steam Hardware Pre-orders All Sold Out
Those looking to get some Steam hardware early are out of luck. Valve has announced that all the Steam hardware for the “get it early” offer with delivery set for October 16 have sold out. Any orders from today onwards for the Steam Controller and Steam Link will ship nearly…
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Valve Has Just Made Its Steam Hardware Available for Pre-Order
Valve and its partners have just announced that the Steam Hardware will be made available shortly for anyone who wishes to pre-order them. Though the hardware will roll out this fall in North America and Europe, fans may reserve their gear starting today. Aside from Steam, customers can head over…
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Valve Wants to Make Your House ‘Steam-Ready’ with Steam Link
GDC bring a lot of announcements, one of them being from Valve. The company has announced its new Steam Link, which is a gadget that will “extend your Steam experience to any room in the house”. Steam Link is said to work by streaming content from Steam, providing that both…
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Alienware Launches Its Alpha “Steam Machine”, Starting at $550
Alienware has announced it is now selling its Alpha “PC console”, starting at $550. The Dell-owned gaming arm is selling its Alienware Alpha PC with an entry price of $550, going up to around $900. It ships with an Xbox 360 controller, features its own user interface dubbed Alpha-UI, is…
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Steam Machines Delayed Until 2015
A lot of rumours had been circulating about the Steam Machines and the latest news regarding the non-Windows powered machines refer to the Steam-based gaming machines being pushed back until 2015. Some prototypes have been revealed in the past, including the Alienware version powered by NVIDIA. From what is known…
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Valve Adds Native Music Player in Steam Music, To Be Available in Big Picture Soon
SteamOS has not been so user-friendly of late, not to mention the major flaws it has. From not being bootable on DVD, to nuking hard drives clearly mentioned with the ‘install at your own risk’ warning, it did not look so amazing, not to mention worthy of giving it a…
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Alienware Steam Machines Confirm To Not be Upgradeable
We were all excited when Alienware announced their Steam Machines, which we all though of being Linux-based and upgradable as PCs. The perfect consoles. However, recent news uncover that Alienware Steam Machines will have the same principle as consoles. And yes, they will not be upgradeable as previously expected. Alienware…
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Alienware’s Steam Machine To Be Released This September
Personally I can’t say I’m a big fan of Alienware, I’ve often found them to be seriously overpriced given their specifications, but I do understand that there is a market for them given that not everyone knows how to, or can be bothered to build their own system. However, their…
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Alienware Announces Steam Machine Release Date And “Some” Specs
Alienware has announced that their Steam Machines will be available only from September 2014 at Valve’s Steam Dev Days conference in Seattle. In addition to the release date, we get more insight on what specs we are looking to find under the hood. Alienware’s Steam Machine is Intel and NVIDIA…
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Valve’s Prototype Steam Machine Is Showcased, GTX Titan and Core i7 In A HTPC Case
Valve showed off their new Steam Machine prototype to the Verge yesterday and it all looks pretty impressive. While the specifications of the Steam Machine will vary – for instance lower end models will have a GTX 660 and an Intel Core i3 – the top end model is quite…
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