Despite censorship woes and the terrifying price of RAM, 2025 was the year I fell back in love with PC gaming

Beauty is deeply subjective and rarely permanent. But when I think of PC gaming, those wintry evenings spent chasing the horizon in Black Flag are the first and finest memories to come to mind. In ...
IGN

Steam Machine vs. PlayStation 5: Is Valve’s Gaming PC a Console Competitor?

More like this You'll Soon Be Able to Play PlayStation 5 From Your Car, if You Drive a Honda Afeela and Have Your Console Switched on at Home I wish I could say this is a straightforward choice, but ...
IGN

Steam Machine vs. PlayStation 5: Is Valve’s Gaming PC a Console Competitor?

There’s a new block on the block, or at least there will be soon. The Steam Machine, Valve’s new cuboid mini gaming PC disguised as a game console is coming early next year. And that’s exciting! I ...
Polygon

Valve's Steam Machine has one big advantage over the old Steam Box

After the first Steam Machine launched in 2015, Valve gained a reputation for releasing hardware and leaving it to die, alone and unsupported. It's an accurate representation. Valve launched the Steam ...
Ars Technica

Testing shows why the Steam Machine’s 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem

But there’s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily ...
Erie Times-News

Carol Louise Willenbucker Lapping

Carol Louise Lapping, age 83, of Millcreek Twp., passed away on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, at UPMC-Hamot. She was born in Erie on September 14, 1942, the daughter of the late Charles and Viola ...
PC Gamer

Valve's decision not to sell the Steam Machine at a loss 'isn't stupid' but it is 'peculiar' says Baldur's Gate 3 publishing boss

Linux 2025 might have been the year for Linux gaming, but there's still a way to go until I switch from Windows Hardware PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the memory crisis is compounding it in a ...
GamesRadar+

Valve artist says that's "like saying food products shouldn't have their ingredients list" as Epic's Tim Sweeney and more call on Steam to drop the 'Made with AI' label

Games Microsoft CEO resorts to blogging in defense of AI, says "we need to get beyond the arguments of slop" – exactly what I'd say if I was tired of losing the arguments of slop Dragon Age Former ...
Game Rant

Valve is One of the Most Efficient Companies in the World

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...
Geeky Gadgets

Steam Frame is Just the Start : Valve Explains More

What if the future of gaming wasn’t just about better graphics or faster processors, but about giving players the tools to shape their own experiences? Valve seems to think so. With the announcement ...
GamesRadar+

As Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced more like a PC than a console, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says its decision not to sell at a loss "isn't stupid," but it is ...

Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead Michael Douse has commented on the supposed price of the Steam Machine. This led Valve to confirm that the Steam Machine price will be "more in line with what you might ...