The Steam Box started as a glimmer of hope in 2012. Many doubted the software company best known for its hit games and online gaming marketplace Steam would make its own hardware. A year later Valve unveiled its first designs for its own game-playing PCs and a list of major hardware partners, as well. But as the delivery date for the first Steam Box slips to 2015, the dream remains deferred. Follow all the news here.
Farewell to the Steam Link, the best wireless HDMI gadget ever made (update: it’s $2.50)
One last chance to get it for $2.50 (plus shipping)
Gaming performance on Valve's SteamOS can't keep up with Windows
Even Valve's own games take a hit when played on a dual-boot machine
Alienware's Alpha console will bring Steam to your living room this November
Steam OS is running late, but that isn't stopping Alienware
Valve delays Steam Machines and controller until 2015
Company using "ton of feedback" to make controller "a lot better"
Steam Machines are here: how Alienware is realizing Valve's console dream
Alienware leads the charge for Linux-based gaming PCs
We play with the Steam Machine, Valve's game console of the future
Can the company behind 'Half-Life' build hardware worthy of the TV?
Valve unveils the Steam Controller
A gamepad designed to work with the entire Steam library
SteamOS: could Valve's game console challenge Windows?
The Steam Box should have Microsoft worried
How Valve's Steam Box will reinvent the game console as you know it
If your name is Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo, you should start taking notes
Jan 8, 2013T.C. Sottek and Tom Warren
Exclusive interview: Valve's Gabe Newell on Steam Box, biometrics, and the future of gaming
A rare and candid talk with Valve's boss
Connect the dots: Valve’s Big Picture could be a Linux game console
How Valve could steal the thunder from Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo
Valve says it's jumping into the computer hardware business
Between the rumored "Steam Box" platform, murmurs of a wearable computing project, and job listings for engineers, there's mounting evidence that Valve plans to expand beyond the software industry. And according to a revised job description for the "industrial designer" position on Valve's website, the company isn't staying quiet about its ambitions: Valve says "we're frustrated by the lack of innovation of in the computer hardware space, so we're jumping in."
Valve hiring an engineer to help with 'hardware design' in its R&D labs
No, Valve is totally not building a Steam Box gaming console. But it is building hardware. A new job opening at the company's R&D division has opened up today, looking for an electronics engineer with experience in prototyping and ARM / x86 hardware design.
Valve: we won't be releasing a Steam Box console in the immediate future
In an interview with Kotaku, Valve's Doug Lombardi stated that the company had no plans to release a Steam-branded gaming console, but declined to rule it out as an eventual possibility.
Exclusive: Valve said to be working on 'Steam Box' gaming console with partners, could announce at GDC
Is Valve about to shake up the gaming industry?
