PC GamerSteam Machine is here, starts at $1,049—sign up live for 512 GB/2 TB model, with optional Steam Controller
Valve admits its higher than hoped: "Our original goal for the price… is no longer viable."
PC GamerValve admits its higher than hoped: "Our original goal for the price… is no longer viable."
EurogamerNow that you've hopefully absorbed everything Valve has announced for the Steam Machine, which begins shipping through a reservation system relatively soon, it's time to look beyond. Valve has officially confirmed FSR 4, AMD's most advanced image upscaling technology, is coming to the Steam Machine. Read more
EurogamerAs Valve creeps into the traditionally console-dominated gaming space of the living room with its new Steam Machine, it not only opens itself to comparisons with the consoles that currently reside there, but also with how companies like Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo do business. Read more
EurogamerThe Steam Machine is buyable at last! And it sure costs a pretty penny, as is probably to be expected here in the year of our lord and/or dark lord 2026. We've written a full user-focused review of the Steam Machine separately thanks to yours truly, but also it's important to confess something: I am not a technical expert, and nor will I ever be. Read more
EurogamerWhat is the Steam Machine? I must admit I've spent a good portion of my time with the thing trying to figure that question out. Valve will tell you, as they told us, that it's essentially been made for the people who want to bring their existing PC library - on Steam and elsewhere - to the living room. It's a noble goal, and one the company's been toying with for more than a decade, since its introduction of Big Picture Mode as far back as 2012, through the original wave of third-party Steam Mac
EurogamerEarlier this month, Valve reaffirmed its commitment to shipping the Steam Machine this summer. Today, it officially announced pricing, initial shipping dates, and many remaining details, including specs, for the living room PC. Read more
EurogamerThe price of the Steam Machine is "significantly more" than Valve would have liked to launch it at, Valve has told Eurogamer, and it hasn't been able to make as many units of the new console-like PC as it wanted to, either. Read more
GameSpotJust how far in advance was God of War Laufey planned by its developer, Sony Santa Monica Studio? Almost a decade ago, as actress Deborah Ann Woll--who provided the motion capture and voice acting for the game's protagonist, Faye--recently spoke about how she first heard about the project in 2018. "I've known about this for nearly 10 years, and I haven't been able to talk about it," Woll said to CGM. According to Woll, God of War 2018 director Cory Barlog first pitched the idea to her back then,
GameSpotActor Deborah Ann Woll, who plays the main character Laufey AKA Faye in God of War Laufey, has further discussed the game and its story. The previous God of War games featured Kratos in the lead role, but Laufey focuses on Faye's story. Woll said in an interview that it feels "extraordinary" to think that some people will play the God of War game because the main character is a woman, and a woman played by a popular actor like she is. "We need as much diversity as possible within these stories s
GameSpotGoogle is investing $75 million into the privately owned movie studio A24 for AI-based research, according to sources speaking to The Wall Street Journal. A24 is the film studio making the Elden Ring movie from director Alex Garland. It's also behind the upcoming Death Stranding movie from Pig director Michael Sarnoski. Google is already heavily invested in the media space with its juggernaut YouTube platform, but this would be Google's first investment in a movie studio. In a blog post, Google
GameSpotCD Projekt joint CEO Michał Nowakowski understands that some fans of the developer have lost faith in the company "indefinitely" following the Cyberpunk 2077 catastrophe. At the same time, the executive said the Polish developer feels optimistic about its chances to "make it back" with The Witcher 4. Speaking to Edge (by way of GamesRadar), Nowakowski said Cyberpunk 2077's troubled launch in December 2020 was "heartbreaking" for the studio. For anyone just catching up, Cyberpunk 2077 launched in
Rock Paper ShotgunIn Scream Operator: Haunted House Manager, you become an architect of alarm. A draughtsman of dismay. A mechanic of panic. A… haunted house manager. It's a "cosy-spooky" themepark strategy sim in which you attempt to maximise the chills and earn fat stacks by arranging your Grim Reapers just so. By day, you supervise guests as they queue through the pre-show and board the cars, generating Immersion and Fear points as they witness the props and trigger the scares in each room. By night, you pick
EurogamerUltima designer Richard Garriott (AKA Lord British) has a plan to claim back the rights to his legendary RPG series from current owner EA. The trick to doing so? A rather obscure bit of copyright law from around 50 years ago. Read more
PC GamerBungie has always struggled to figure out what Destiny actually is and how to support it.
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GematsuGungHo Online Entertainment has announced its plans for Anime Expo 2026, which will run from … Source
GameSpotWith people wondering if GTA 6 preorders will kickstart a new $80 era for standard edition PS5 and Xbox Series X|S games, one new release on Steam already has Rockstar Games beat: Congratulations On Your Purchase. The new red carpet-simulator launched not too long ago, and it can be yours for the mere price of $1,000. Designed to be a "first-person luxury experience" set inside a palace, the Steam listing says that players can expect a red carpet, a chandelier, and a velvet rope barrier to prote
GematsuMedieval hack-and-slash cooperative roguelike game Tears of Metal will launch in Early Access for PC … Source
Rock Paper ShotgunOld-timey German RPG Gothic had a few spiritual successors, but most were offshoots from the same studio. Thanks to pre-digital distribution limits of 2001, it was obscure in North America, which of course means it never existed. It didn't even have Mario in. But Gothic was also special. Gothic 1 Remake (whose refreshingly honest, direct name honours us) chose a path made of tightropes: to be neither a perfect recreation or a wholly new entity wearing its skin, but to modernise and improve while
EurogamerThe Pokémon Company has unveiled new details about its upcoming animated series, Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd & Pichu. Initially teased back in 2024, the stop-motion animation project is a collaboration between Pokémon and British animation studio Aardman, known for the award-winning Wallace and Gromit, and as Shaun the Sheep. Read more