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Valve made its first shot across the game console bow, releasing SteamOS to the masses and shipping its promised 300 Steam Machine beta kits to lucky recipients. The recipients have been nice enough to capture unboxings for the rest of us, as well as divulge the console’s specs, and test out some games. How does the first official Steam Machine ...

The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One may not offer an enormous jump over last-generation graphics out of the gate, but the SoCs inside the consoles — semi-custom APUs made by AMD — are a huge leap forward in terms of integration and capability. Both consoles integrate functionality that was previously broken out into multiple chips, using the most advanced 28nm ...

The PS4′s launch day is finally upon us, and for the first time in the history of game consoles we actually have a very good idea of the hardware that’s actually inside the box. Priced at $ 400 and released on November 15, the PS4 is a very exciting proposition indeed: Not only is it cheaper than the Xbox One, ...

For the first time in the history of video game consoles, it’s actually possible to do an almost direct comparison of the hardware inside the PS4 and Xbox One. In almost every one of the seven preceding generations, game consoles were outfitted with highly customized chips and CPUs featuring niche, specialized architectures that could only really be compared very generally ...