At CES 2013 this week, Xi3 and Valve have unveiled a new mini PC that supports Steam and has been created using investment from Valve, possibly hinting that this small factor high-powered mini ...

The Steam Box (or Steam Boxes, more likely) has been a long time coming, and today, the Xi3’s Piston is leading the charge. While the details about Piston specifically are few and far between, we got ...

The Xi3 Piston, not backed by Valve, apparently. Yesterday Valve said it wasn't involved with the Xi3 Piston, dubbed the unofficial Steambox, in any way. Now, amid growing confusion, the people behind ...

It is incomplete to even talk about degreeing a camshaft without discussing piston-to-valve clearance. It's like learning how to drive but never being taught how to use the brakes. Learning how to ...

Following on from the launch of Xi3’s Piston mini PC for $999 last week, Valve has now confirmed that the Xi3 Piston is not a Valve Steam Box, after all. Valve’s Doug Lombardi explained and confirmed ...

Since its reveal at CES, the story has been that Xi3's Piston is, if not the Steambox we've all been waiting for, then certainly a Steambox - the first of several third-party PCs designed for Steam ...

Hardware maker Xi3 is pushing back against Valve’s attempts to distance itself from Xi3’s $1,000 Piston PC-in-a-console, setting off a debate about what, precisely, is meant by the heavily ...

Lots of displacement, more compression, and a ton of valve lift used to be the recipe for a typical professional-level drag-race motor. Today, this same description could just as easily be a serious ...

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 tell Polygon. Xi3 ...

After an investment from Valve Software, modular PC maker Xi3 looks to have a long-rumored Steam Box under development. Rich was the editorial lead for CNET's Home and Wellness sections, based in ...

Engineers have a lot to think about when designing new engines, and one of the biggest considerations is the shape of the ...