We may earn a commission from links on this page. It's not a Steam Box, but they want us to believe it is: Xi3's Piston might be the most confusing product in gaming this year, thanks to some ...

One of the great tech news stripteases in recent memory is the supposed development of a “Steam Box,” a home gaming ... system in question is known as “Piston,” and it’s based on Xi3 ...

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The Xi3 Piston--the third-party "Steam Box" that Valve is helping finance--has been officially priced to start at $1,000. The ultra-small Piston is packing 8GB of RAM and a 3.2GHz Quad Core AMD ...

The Piston, Xi3’s so-called “Steam Box” made with the backing of Valve, trotted out its odd little PC at the Consumer Electronics Show in January and promised the moon. It’s an upgradeable ...

Premier game developer Valve shook the electronic entertainment world on Monday when it said that it had was working on its own open system console, which the press has dubbed the “Steam Box.” ...

The Xi3 Piston opened for pre-orders on Monday, and seemed to be the first of many Steam Box type devices powered by Valve’s online gaming store and service. But Valve quickly came out and said ...

Sullivan cryptically elaborated: “The assumption of many in the media has been that Piston is the ‘official’ Steam Box. We’ve never said that and neither has Valve. That hasn’t changed.

PC hardware manufacturer Xi3 opened pre-orders for their "Piston console", supposedly the first in an assortment of computers that the community has affectionately dubbed a "Steam box", as machines ...

Piston, Xi3's Valve-backed micro PC expected to be the first of a number of Steam boxes, will be available for pre-order at SXSW. Attendees who pre-order will receive $100 off the price of $999.99.

Valve has made no secret of its plans to launch a “Steam Box” – a Linux-based PC designed for playing games in your living room – and it might just be on show at CES. The Xi3 Piston (a codename, since ...

Xi3's console-like PC, the Piston, will have three modular boards for hardware upgrades. The $1,000 Piston - which is $100 off at pre-order - is designed with future-proofing in mind. Chief ...