PC Gaming
Valve announced a new range of hardware overnight, in the form of the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller. It’s probably the biggest PC hardware news we’ll see in 2025, but Australians can be forgiven if they feel a little unenthused. After all, Valve is famously slow to release its hardware into Australia: the…
A colleague and I recently travelled to Valve to get a behind-the-scenes look at the company’s upcoming product launches. Before we entered the building, we were already discussing one of the products yet to be announced, the Steam Frame. For many, this announcement will not come as a complete surprise, as intrepid detectives glean information…
It’s not exactly a surprising outcome, but it is now official: RuneScape players have voted overwhelmingly to remove the game’s ‘Treasure Hunter’ microtransaction system, and so it’ll be cut out completely on January 19, 2026. “January 19th is the start of a new era for RuneScape, powered by a shared desire to see this game…
The Steam Frame has a heap of new features to dig into, but I want to focus on one here: foveated streaming. It sounds like a medical issue but I assure you, it’s all about ensuring the Steam Frame’s wireless connection is strong, stable, and appears high quality. The Steam Frame offers a few ways…
In case you somehow missed it, the big PC gaming news of the day is Valve’s new slate of hardware: The Steam Controller, Steam Frame VR headset, and most notable of all (I think, anyway), the Steam Machine, a cubical, console-esque little PC that aims to bring Steam libraries to the living room. It’s a…
With the launch of the Steam Frame, Valve’s new VR headset, SteamOS will be made available for Arm-based systems. This is required to support the new headset, which is using a Snapdragon processor to run games without requiring a tether to a gaming PC. However, it’s also a sign that times are changing, as systems…
Have you ever been bored? Have you ever been like, really bored, bored in the way where it feels like you’ve been removed from participating in the rest of the world, like time is moving differently for you than it’s moving for other people? How about depressed? Have you ever felt like everything you do…
Valve has packed the new Steam Controller with multiple ways to control a PC game from the comfort of your sofa. It has standard thumbsticks (phew), a pair of trackpads, and gyro controls. Three for the price of… well, we don’t know the price of the Steam Controller yet. Though I hadn’t considered gyro controls…
The Steam Machine available in the new year is designed by Valve. It will be sold by Valve, and, as such, it cannot be hastily switched to Windows at the last minute to sell more units. But despite being burned in the past, Valve is keen for its Steam Machine to blaze a trail for…
The Valve Index is a popular headset by most measures, currently used by roughly 15% of players on Steam to play VR. So why is it Valve has killed the Index branding entirely with its latest arrival, a new VR headset called the Steam Frame? Turns out, it’s exactly because Valve doesn’t want that sense…