And while that’s the best guess for what the Piston could be, nothing is certain, and there’s no telling what other kind of Steam Boxes could be bubbling up in the shadows. Valve has made it ...

More importantly, though, Xi3 noted that the Piston will be able to run Steam games "regardless of what our relationship is or isn't with Valve." Moreover, "Piston will also support a raft of ...

At CES, Xi3 announced the Piston, a “development stage product…designed specifically to support [Valve’s] Steam and its Big Picture.” And it would do so in a compact, living room-friendly ...

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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 ...

The Piston was dubbed the unofficial Steam Box because it had, supposedly, been "designed specifically" with Steam and Big Picture Mode in mind, and was shown off to press at both Valve and Xi3's ...

“That said, the Piston console can also run Linux (and other operating systems), which means it can support the Linux-version of Steam.” ”Contrary to Valve’s vision, Xi3 believes that the ...

Gaming giant Valve has distanced itself from the unofficial Steam Box - the Xi3 Piston PC. While Valve first showed off the Xi3 Piston at CES 2013 as a prototype for the Steam Box gaming system ...

A company called Xi3 showed up with a modular computer codenamed "Piston," which Valve and Xi3 confirmed is a "computer game system optimized for Steam gameplay." In other words, this is the Steam ...

The “Steam Box” modular computer announced by hardware maker Xi3 and Valve at CES is codenamed “Piston” and is modeled after the PC maker’s X7A line of pint-sized computers, Xi3 reps ...

Sullivan says that many people in the media have assumed that the Piston is the official Steam Box. He says that neither Xi3 or Valve have ever said that. He also points out that just because ...

UPDATE: Valve has distanced itself from the Xi3 Piston, dubbed an unofficial Steam Box. It had been believed that Valve had backed the grapefruit-sized computer ahead of the release of its own ...