Steam Machines have returned: all the news about Valve’s new hardware universe

In 2012, The Verge broke the news that Valve was making a game console. Gabe Newell himself dished on the company’s grand plans. By 2015, the “Steam Machines” had utterly flopped. But Valve never stopped quietly working on the idea. The Steam Deck handheld became the seed for a grand reboot of Valve’s console and headset ambitions. And now, Steam Machines are back. The new Steam Machine is for your TV, the Steam Controller is for your hands, and the Steam Frame is for your face — and they might just be the start. The company hinted there might be more SteamOS hardware later on. [Media: We’re tracking Valve’s rebooted hardware plans in this Verge StoryStream. And if you want to know how we got here, it also contains our original Steam Machine coverage — going back over a decade.