Tracking: The Steam Summer Sale goes live with 'deep-a** discounts' across thousands of games / Valve says Steam Machine won't have 'as long of a timeframe' as Steam Deck, and new models are 'just a matter of when it makes sense'

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Valve wasn't sure it was gonna have any Steam Machines to sell at the start of 2026: 'Things looked really dire' 18-year-old strategy game King's Bounty: The Legend just got a quality-of-life update, as well as achievements and a Steam Workshop for mods The one thing Valve would change about the Steam Machine? 'Make it cheaper'

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"We have our own list of features that we wanted to add": Valve say the Steam Machine's update support will be similar to the Steam Deck's Motorsport Manager 2 races onto Steam in 2027, teasing wannabe Wolffs and hopeful Horners with more dynamic race strategies and expanded off-track stories

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Valve confirms that physical Steam Gift Cards are dead. Once the current stocks are sold through, they're done.

r/pcgaming · u/D0NTEVENKNOWME · 15d ago

Steam will no longer be restocking physical gift cards at retailers due to scammers.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/78E3-7431-1E88-AD59#retailers

r/Steam · u/Worrissey · 16d ago

Gabe’s son will be racing in the 24hrs of Le Mans

Got the race program just this morning, was not expecting this lol

r/Steam · u/Top_Committee_8503 · 17d ago

Developer attacked over (learning from) AI - where to draw the line?

Clarification: Generative AI was not used to create the game (far as I'm aware) I think it's an overreaction. Whenever a certain segment of people hear "AI" at all their brains turn off and they go into attack mode. I've…

r/gamedeals · u/Gramis · 17d ago

[Steam] The Talos Principle 2 ($7.49/75% off)

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How do these discounted mini PCs compare to the Steam Machine's performance?

The Steam Machine is causing a ruckus in the tech world, namely due to its price-to-performance ratio now that reviews have gone out into the wild. It's true that you can build a full-size gaming PC or buy a pre-built gaming PC for less money and with superior power, but what about a mini PC that's a closer match to the form factor? 👉I found these pre‑built gaming PCs that beat Valve’s Steam Machine on price and performance, and it’s not even close Well, that's where the real genius of Valve's device comes into play. It is indeed capable of delivering quite a bit of gaming performance in a sup

Steam Machine not for you? I found 5 great mini PCs starting at just $549 that can reliably game at 1080p

Why Is The Steam Machine So Expensive?

Like the majority of consumer electronics in the world right now, the Steam Machine has been impacted by major corporations buying up components like RAM and SSDs in bulk because they are needed to both construct and power vast AI datacentres. You’ve also got wars, tariffs, and other non-gaming, geopolitical circumstances drastically pushing up costs. Demand has never been so high, so supply chains are now fundamentally constrained, while prices of components required to build video game consoles or construct capable gaming PCs are higher than they’ve ever been. A number of companies have also

Valve Knows The Steam Machine Is Too Expensive, But It’s Powerless To Do Anything About It

What's in the Steam Machine, and how does performance compare to these discounted gaming PCs?

Valve's Steam Machine runs on a custom AMD Zen 4 CPU with 6 cores, 12 threads, and a 30W TDP. Attached are integrated custom AMD RDNA 3 graphics, with 8GB of VRAM and 28 compute units. All Steam Machine models come with 16GB of DDR5 system memory, and the introductory models start with a 512GB SSD (upgradeable to 2TB for those with deeper pockets). Circling back to the custom graphics, testing by our friends at Tom's Hardware revealed that it fails to pull ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 7600 discrete GPU while coming out just ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 6600. How does that performance compare to th

These pre‑built gaming PCs are the best Steam Machine alternatives because they’re more powerful and cost less

How Do Demanding Games Run On The Steam Machine?

Power and storage aren't everything. It's how you use it, particularly the power, and maybe the minds over at Valve have figured out a way to harness that power better than it's harnessed on the PS5 Pro. Well, no, seemingly that's not the case either if early tests showcasing how demanding games run on the Steam Machine are anything to go by. Cyberpunk 2077 continues to be the go-to for testing just how well a game looks and runs on new hardware, and based on test results shared by Play4Index, it doesn't look good for the Steam Machine. The demanding CDPR title ran at just 28 FPS. Black Myth W

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