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The decades-long debate between PC and consoles has stratified gaming into a kind of caste system. If you want customizability, you naturally need to spend more money on increasingly expensive PC ...

In 2026, the lines between “console” and “PC” have finally dissolved. We’ve moved past the era of clunky, loud gaming laptops ...

Valve’s Steam Machine targets an early 2026 release date with an AMD RDNA 3 GPU and 16GB DDR5, giving you smooth 4K play with ...

Valve, the company behind PC gaming platform Steam, has revealed a new console to rival Nintendo, Xbox and PlayStation. The Steam Machine is a home console designed to allow gamers to play PC games on ...

PC gaming has continued to grow in popularity over the years, and the recent Steam Machine announcement from Valve has reignited conversations about PC gaming vs traditional consoles. In discussing ...

Valve’s next Steam Machine should add suspend and resume plus faster boot, so you start playing in seconds without constant tweaks.

No one’s saying consoles are done. They still sell well and offer some great experiences. But if you look at where things are going — both in terms of technology and what gamers want — it’s hard not ...

Welcome back to Next-Gen Console Watch! This week Max, Ryan, and Daemon dive into Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick's comments about PC gaming. Zelnick says that gaming as an industry is moving more ...

I'm very much a console girl. Sure, I play plenty of games on PC, but I largely prefer the console experience. When a new game comes out, I don't have to worry about upgrading my PlayStation 5 or Xbox ...

Before joining the PC Gamer team, I spent many years as a console gamer—shocking, I know. Though I have a Steam backlog many would envy, I'm still hopping between my rig and perhaps far too many ...

Earlier this week, Xbox unveiled a new dashboard for Xbox Cloud Gaming on the web, and it quickly attracted a bunch of ...