About Steam Deck Machine
An independent English-language magazine covering Valve hardware, SteamOS, Proton, and the games that run on them.
Steam Deck Machine started as a niche blog for people who actually use this hardware day to day — handheld owners chasing better battery life, Linux gamers tracking Proton compatibility, and players hunting the next Verified release worth their time. We've kept it focused on one thing: Valve hardware and the platform that powers it.
What we cover
The site is organised around six axes — and we stay inside them on purpose. Generic gaming news has a thousand homes; Steam-specific reporting has fewer.
- Steam Deck — handheld news, firmware drops, accessory tests, compatibility shifts.
- Steam Machine — coverage of Valve's new living-room PC.
- Steam Frame — Valve's headset for VR and Steam streaming.
- Steam Controller — the new gamepad and its successors.
- Games — releases, sales, and reviews framed around Steam.
- SteamOS & Proton — the platform underneath all of it, including SteamOS on PCs.
Voice and standards
Headlines tell you the news. The body explains what it actually means for someone playing tonight. No clickbait, no AI-spun filler, no review scores invented from review-copy desperation. When we run a guide, we run the steps ourselves first. When we publish a benchmark, we list the hardware and the build.
Our full editorial standards — sourcing, conflicts of interest, corrections — live on the editorial guidelines page. The running corrections log is where fixes are recorded in public.
Independence
Steam Deck Machine is not affiliated with Valve Corporation. Steam, Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, Steam Controller, SteamOS, and Proton are trademarks of Valve. We use those names to report on the products; we don't speak for the company that makes them.
We run a small number of affiliate links — primarily Steam, humble retailers, and major accessory makers. Those don't influence which products get covered or how they're reviewed. See the affiliate disclosure for the full picture.
Get in touch
Pitches, corrections, tips on unreleased compatibility or firmware, anything else — the contact page has the fastest routes.