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.
Oct 11, 2013, 6:51 PM UTCChris Welch
Valve demonstrates how its Steam Controller works with your favorite PC games
Oct 2, 2013, 8:10 AM UTCRich McCormick
Valve's Steam Box won't challenge consoles, says 'Borderlands' studio boss
Sep 27, 2013, 5:00 PM UTCAndrew Webster
Valve unveils the Steam Controller
A gamepad designed to work with the entire Steam library
Sep 24, 2013, 8:16 PM UTCSean Hollister
SteamOS: could Valve's game console challenge Windows?
The Steam Box should have Microsoft worried
Sep 23, 2013, 5:01 PM UTCSean Hollister
Valve announces SteamOS, a living-room operating system for games
Sep 20, 2013, 5:14 PM UTCSean Hollister
Valve's Steam Box teased for Monday reveal on official countdown page
Mar 11, 2013, 5:23 PM UTCAdi Robertson
Xi3 opens $999.99 pre-orders for Piston gaming 'console PC' (update 2)
Mar 5, 2013, 9:53 PM UTCSean Hollister
Valve will hand out Steam Box prototypes 'in the next three to four months'
Feb 14, 2013, 12:42 AM UTCSean Hollister
Valve's Gabe Newell addresses layoffs: 'We aren't canceling any projects'
Feb 13, 2013, 8:43 PM UTCT.C. Sottek
Valve reportedly fires more employees as part of 'great cleansing'
Feb 13, 2013, 5:45 AM UTCSean Hollister
Valve fires Jeri Ellsworth, who was developing Steam Box game controllers
Feb 6, 2013, 7:00 PM UTCT.C. Sottek
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 9, 2013, 2:38 PM UTCTim Carmody
'Steam was broken' without a route to the living room, says Valve's Greg Coomer
Jan 8, 2013, 11:38 PM UTCT.C. Sottek
Valve confirms it's building a Linux-based Steam Box that will act as a local gaming server for all your screens
Jan 8, 2013, 11:10 PM UTCT.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
Jan 8, 2013, 7:34 PM UTCT.C. Sottek
Valve's Steam Box gets big push at CES as Gabe Newell meets with major hardware partners
Dec 8, 2012, 8:54 PM UTCT.C. Sottek
Gabe Newell says Valve will release its own console-like PC for the living room
Nov 16, 2012, 5:47 PM UTCSean Hollister
Connect the dots: Valve’s Big Picture could be a Linux game console
How Valve could steal the thunder from Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo
Sep 3, 2012, 8:29 PM UTCT.C. Sottek
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."
Apr 13, 2012, 1:10 PM UTCVlad Savov
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.
Mar 8, 2012, 10:18 PM UTCBryan Bishop
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.
