One of the ways in which PC gaming saviour Valve is looking to innovate is in the field of biometric input, with the Half-Life creator apparently now testing various control methods that use eye-tracking and take data from sweat sensors so the software knows when you're panicking or at the limits of your skills. Read More >>

The maker of the Xi3 Piston supposed "Steam Box" PC games machine has clarified its relationship with Valve, after the game publisher denied having anything to do with the mini PC hardware startup. Read More >>

If you were under the impression a Valve Steam Box would be console-money, around the £300 mark, think again. While Valve's got its own official Steam Box incoming, which could possibly be cheaper, the first unofficial Steam Box, the Xi3 Piston, has just gone up for pre-order in the US and it's a wallet-crunching £600. Read More >>

The BBC managed to corner Gabe Newell at the Baftas, squeezing out of him that Valve's readying prototypes of the Steam Box to be sent out to customers for testing in the next three to four months. Read More >>

As with the rest of the known world, Valve boss Gabe Newell is waiting for Apple to make its move into the home gaming realm, and he sees this as more of a threat to his forthcoming Steam Box dream than Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo's home hardware. Read More >>

Gabe Newell isn't quite being the fountain of information we'd like him to be right now, but having been cornered by the Verge, he let slip a few choice details on the incoming Steam Box. Valve's going big here, and its plan is pretty console-killing ambitious. Read More >>

After rumours, speculation, confirmation, and then yet more rumours, we finally have a glimpse at a real-life, working Steam Box. It's code-named 'Piston' and it's being made by a company called Xi3 Corporation, in whom Valve has plunked a load of dosh. Oh, and it's tiny. Read More >>

Rumours have been circulating for ages that Valve's going to try and shove a Steam Box under your tele, but now we have the word from Gabe Newell himself. Valve's making a gaming PC for your living room and it's going to take on the next-generation PlayStation and Xbox. Console versus PC gaming all over again. Read More >>

We heard Valve had new hardware in development, both insane looking and, potentially, a more mundane traditional "Steam Box," but now it seems it's ready for the general public to start testing its secret stuff. Read More >>

After all the rumours and denials, Valve's just posted a very interesting job listing, which basically confirms that it's getting into the gaming PC business. In fact, the listing actually says Valve's "frustrated by the lack of innovation in the computer hardware space" so it's "jumping in" itself -- you can't get much more of a confirmation that a "Steam Box" than that. Read More >>

Valve’s Steam has been at the forefront of digital distribution for a while now, ever since it kicked off as an initially pretty annoying way to prevent piracy for the developer’s Half-Life series. Now it seems Valve’s eyeing up Steam’s logical evolution – a fully-fledged gaming console for your living room -- the “Steam Box.” Read More >>