With all the excitement surrounding Steam Machines this year, it's easy to forget about the controversal "Steam Box" from last year's CES. As a reminder, in January 2013, Xi3 unveiled its Piston ...

The Piston may not technically be one of Valve’s new Steam Machines, but the modular computer hardware will run Linux and support Steam (including its Big Picture Mode, an interface optimized for ...

Xi3 Piston, the first device revealed when Valve admitted it was getting into hardware, is not a Steam Machine - because "if you can play it on a computer you should be able to play it on a Piston".

This week Xi3 showed off its upcoming "Piston Console," including the fact that it will ship with a copy of Windows and use proprietary controllers - though it will ship with no controller at all.