Steam Machine review — an utterly lovable, probably too niche, definitely too expensive gaming curio

What is the Steam Machine? I must admit I’ve spent a good portion of my time with the thing trying to figure that question out. Valve will tell you, as they told us , that it’s essentially been made for the people who want to bring their existing PC library — on Steam and elsewhere — to the living room. It’s a noble goal, and one the company’s been toying with for more than a decade, since its introduction of Big Picture Mode as far back as 2012, through the original wave of third-party Steam Machines that launched in 2015, to the Steam Link and beyond. Read more