Via The Seattle Times, here’s your first look at Valve’s Steam Machine prototype—a super-high-end machine that will be sent out to 300 beta testers later this year. (Those are Valve employees standing with it: from left to right, Eric Hope, Anna Sweet, Greg Coomer and D.J. Powers.)
https://kotaku.com/valves-first-steam-machine-prototype-is-crazy-powerful-1441267520
If you’re one of the lucky few beta testers, you’ll get that massive piece of hardware alongside Valve’s crazy controller for testing this fall.
https://kotaku.com/valve-announces-the-steam-controller-a-new-way-to-cont-1411558137
As for the rest of us, well, The Seattle Times reports that we’ll see a variety of different Steam Machines announced at CES in January, to be sold starting in mid-2014. We’ve already got at least some idea of what will be offered
https://kotaku.com/we-know-more-about-valves-steam-machines-than-you-may-1442101512