After Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine living room box earlier this month, some analysts suggested to Ars that Valve could and should aggressively subsidize that hardware with “loss leader” ...

In 2025 the privately-held Valve Corporation achieved approximately USD 16.2 billion in revenue through its Steam platform while maintaining a headcount of around 350 employees. Data from Alinea ...

Crystal ball: With Valve positioning the Steam Machine as a competitor to the current-gen consoles, many expected it to be priced as such – i.e., around or under $500. But a Valve engineer has ...

In context: Since it was announced last week, there's been some concern among gamers that Valve's new Steam Machine might disappoint when it comes to raw power. With an 8GB RDNA 3 GPU and performance ...

With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame. With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across ...

On Wednesday, Valve announced not one, not two, but three new pieces of video game hardware: The console-like Steam Machine, the Steam Frame VR headset, and the Steam Controller. All of this stuff ...

What’s old is becoming new again. That’s literally true in the case of Boreham Motorworks, the U.K. outfit with exclusive rights to make fresh versions of historic Ford products. Earlier this year R&T ...

For a long time, almost only hardcore Moto Guzzi fans were interested in the motorcycles from Mandello del Lario. That changed abruptly in 2018 when the brand with the eagle in its logo launched the ...

I switch to the highway, where the windshield offers pleasing protection, although the wind noise is clearly audible. The 2024 model year V85 is noticeably more powerful in terms of pulling power ...

There is so much going on with internal combustion engines (ICEs) these days, it can give you a headache just reading about them. That's why we do the research for you and then cram it into bite-size ...

The first production car engine with variable valve timing (VVT) came from Alfa Romeo in 1980. It was installed in the fuel-injected Alfa Romeo Spider. Before this, a few experimental systems existed, ...

What is variable valve lift? What is variable valve timing? We're going to look at the valvtrain from a 2009 Audi 2.0L I4 Turbo engine to check out the differences. Variable valve lift is used to ...