AOL

This day in car history: The first rotary engines rev up

Long before Felix Wankel became synonymous with rotary engines, an inventive Hungarian-American engineer named Stephen M. Balzer secured one of the earliest patents for a rotary-powered automobile on ...
SlashGear

Valve Confirms What Everyone Feared About The Steam Machine's Pricing

Valve made waves last month upon the announcement of a slew of new Steam hardware. The company launched a sequel to the Steam Controller and course-corrected the metaverse with the Steam Frame. But ...
Polygon

Valve's Steam Machine has one big advantage over the old Steam Box

After the first Steam Machine launched in 2015, Valve gained a reputation for releasing hardware and leaving it to die, alone and unsupported. It's an accurate representation. Valve launched the Steam ...
Jalopnik

Mazda's Rotary Engine Is Back In A New Concept, But Now It's Trying To Go Green

After years of rumors and experimentation behind closed doors, the Mazda rotary engine is officially back. The Vision X-Coupe, a plug-in hybrid concept showcased at the 2025 Japan Mobility Show, has ...
GamesRadar+

As Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced more like a PC than a console, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says its decision not to sell at a loss "isn't stupid," but it is ...

Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead Michael Douse has commented on the supposed price of the Steam Machine. This led Valve to confirm that the Steam Machine price will be "more in line with what you might ...
The Escapist

Valve may have revived the Dreamcast VMU feature with its Steam Machine without realising it

Valve reminds me of Nintendo. The Seattle-based company isn’t afraid to utilise the revenue generated from its Steam storefront and games to explore other avenues that could benefit both developers ...
Ars Technica

Valve’s Steam Machine looks like a console, but don’t expect it to be priced like one

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” ...
GamesIndustry

Valve: Steam Machine pricing will be "pretty competitive" with equivalent PCs

PC games giant Valve has said that its recently announced Steam Machine hardware will be a "good deal" when it comes to price. That's according to software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais, who appeared ...
Engadget

Valve says that the Steam Machine's price will be more 'in line with current PC market'

Valve shook up the gaming world with the announcement of the Steam Machine, but we're all still curious about the million-dollar question of pricing. While there's plenty of speculation, we finally ...
PC Gamer

Valve coder confirms the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, albeit at a 'good deal': 'If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that ...

VR Hardware Valve announces the Steam Frame: 'a new way to play your entire Steam library' Hardware Steam Machine will start shipping to Australia on the same day as the rest of the world, marking a ...
Game Rant

Valve Confirms The Steam Machine Won't Have a Subsidized Price

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...
Jalopnik

The Pros And Cons Of Rotary Engines

In a world dominated by pistons, the rotary engine was something different for motorists. It was the vision of German engineer Felix Wankel, built on the belief that the up-and-down motion of pistons ...