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Valve unveils 13 partners for its Steam Machine alternative to Windows gaming

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gabe Newell, chief executive of video game company Valve, finally unveiled the company’s Steam Machines project and the hardware partners who will make gaming computers for the living room based on Valve’s designs.

Valve made the announcement in the swanky Ghost Bar at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, where the huge 2014 International CES tech trade show is happening this week.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.