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Valve is making another run at offering a console-style experience in your living room. The company has announced a new Steam Machine and Steam Controller that let you play PC games on your TV in the same way the Steam Deck lets you play them on the go. Better yet, it’s planning to release them both in early 2026.The Steam Machine works like a console, but is technically a compact PC running Linux-based SteamOS. The boxy device features a customizable front plate and LED light strip, with a USB-A port and a microSD card slot available up front, and DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0 and ethernet ports on the back. Inside, the Steam Machine is powered by what Valve describes as a “semi-custom AMD Zen 4” CPU and a “semi-Custom AMD RDNA3 ” GPU with “16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAM” and either 512GB or 2TB ...

Disney and Pixar yesterday released the first teaser trailer for Toy Story 5, the sequel that brings Tom Hanks and Tim Allen back to the roles of Woody and Buzz yet again. The duo will share the screen, but most fans have wondered exactly how that will work out — and the new trailer doesn’t have any clues. For those who have forgotten, Toy Story 4 ended with Woody getting an unexpected happy ending by running off with Bo Peep, striking out on his own without a kid to love him. Fans of the franchise have been mixed on that decision, since Woody of all characters has always been loyal to the human characters, but since that is how the movie ended, fans have wondered what circumstance brings him back to the playroom with Buzz and the rest. The trailer doesn’t provide any hints there. In it, ...

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You can think of the just-announced Steam Frame as a wireless VR headset for your PC, or a Steam Deck for your face. But another way to think about it is that Valve is finally entering the mobile realm. The Frame doesn’t just run Windows games on its Arm-based Qualcomm Snapdragon chip — Valve will now support and encourage developers to bring their Android apps to Steam as well.It’ll try to make some of them first-class citizens, too, Valve engineer Jeremy Selan tells The Verge. “From the user’s perspective, our preference is that they don’t even have to think about it, they just have their titles on Steam, they download them and hit play.”Valve says the Steam Frame can use the same Android APKs developers already use to bring their apps to phones and Android-based VR headsets such as the ...

When people think of the funniest movies they've ever seen, their minds tend to go to the best reviewed and most iconic comedy movies ever made. Those are the ones that everybody loves, so the really interesting thing to consider is the funniest films that have flown under the radar. These are the comedy movies that aren't iconic, are smaller indie projects, and even some that didn't receive good reviews but are still just downright funny. In one case, it's even a negatively received comedy sequel that's funnier than people realize. Regardless, all of these films are worth checking out for a great laugh. Role Models (2008) ...

Singer worked with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund on the euphoric dance number At long last, Robyn has returned. The Swedish dance-pop genius is back with “Dopamine,” her first original solo single since 2018’s Honey. The buoyant song was produced by her longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund. Like the best of Robyn’s catalog, “Dopamine” is a euphoric dance floor banger that pulsates with a hypnotic beat. In the Marili Andre-directed video, the singer dances her way through the high and the rain. “Everyone has a phone where they see their heart rate, and we’re learning how to decode our emotions through the hormones and chemical substances in our bodies,” she said in a statement. “It’s almost like we don’t even accept that we’re human anymore, like we’re trying ...

Fiscal-year results for 2025 at Aristocrat Leisure were “relatively in line … although divisionally mixed,” according to Jefferies Equity Research analyst Kai Erman. He shared his views in a pair of investor notes, filed November 11 and 12. Aristocrat’s social-casino warhorse, Product Madness, came out ahead of expectations. This, Erman said, offset other online underperformances. There were also 1,611 installations of leased machines that “should draw attention,” per the Jefferies analyst. Outright sales of gambling devices stood at 13,400, including what appeared to be a strong United States performance. Erman attributed the latter to better Aristocrat market share and especially to product launches, such as the Baron line of cabinets. Following the November 11 earnings call, Erman revis...

After more than a decade, Valve is launching a new Steam Machine. While this little gaming PC is exciting on its own, it's also the next step in Valve’s play to become the face of PC gaming – at least more than it already is. Because alongside the Steam Machine, Valve is also launching a new controller and the Steam Frame, a VR headset that itself runs on SteamOS. Combined with the Steam Deck, Valve now has the makings of its own gaming tech ecosystem.But this didn’t happen overnight. This is an ecosystem Valve has been quietly working on for more than a decade. And now that it’s starting to look like the next generation of ‘consoles’ is going to look more like gaming PCs than ever, it’s the perfect time for Steam to assert itself as the face of PC gaming.What's in an Ecosystem?When I talk...

The first trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie just dropped, and fans now have a better idea of what the famous plumbers and their friends are up to in the sequel sequel to the box office hit. I expected to see iconic characters like Rosalina and diverse planets, as both are in the acclaimed Wii game the film is (at least somewhat) adapted from. What I didn't expect to see, though, were big references to other Mario-fronted games, though I guess I should have given the first movie in this franchise.Some may remember that The Super Mario Bros. Movie features a nod to Luigi's spookier spinoff, Luigi's Mansion, and it lays the groundwork for a Donkey Kong Country film. I'm assuming Galaxy Movie will have more references than have been revealed thus far. Nevertheless, here are two major no...

We miss these bygone venues just as much as you do. But you can catch a similar vibe at these places. Vera “Velma” Hernandez Earlier this year, we published a story detailing the seven bygone Dallas music venues we miss the most.Then, we braced for the comments.Surprisingly, they were quite positive. People seemed to agree that the Bronco Bowl and the Lizard Lounge are some of the finest cultural institutions our city has ever produced. Even the detractors were kind, pointing out that we missed the chance to highlight hallowed favorites like Gypsy Tea Room while declining to insult our intelligence, our street cred or our mothers. To acknowledge these oversights — and to keep moving forward in the stages of grief — we put together a new list: The...