The announcement of Valve's upcoming Linux-based Steam Machine hit the internet with a largely positive reception — alongside some understandable confusion. Valve's console will purportedly offer up ...

What if you could hold the power of a high-performance gaming PC in the palm of your hand? In this breakdown, ETA Prime walks through how they achieved just that by building the world’s smallest Steam ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

For various reasons, crypto mining has fallen to the wayside in recent years. Partially because it was never useful other than as a speculative investment and partially because other speculative ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

A centerpiece of the 2026 showcase is the debut of several new additions to JSAUX's established accessory ecosystems. These solutions address the refined needs of users on today's most popular ...

Every year, the video game industry gets a little harder to predict. With mass layoffs that upend studios and leave major games canceled, you never really know how exactly a year is going to shake out ...

The new year brings new devices to the market, new use cases emerge, and the lines between product categories become easier to understand. But heading into 2026, no upcoming piece of hardware leaves ...

Steam hit a major milestone already this year, setting a new record for concurrent users. According to SteamDB, the platform peaked at 41,816,052 users online at the same time actively playing games.

The Steam Deck is dead. Well, the original model with a 7-inch LCD is, at least. Valve has officially discontinued the handheld that opened the floodgates to a gazillion other handheld PCs. “We are no ...

An Xbox Series X and Xbox Controller sitting on a coffee table. (Devindra Hardawar for Engadget) And speaking of Valve, the company's recently announced Steam Machine has also stolen a lot of ...