Moreover, "Piston will also support a raft of other Internet-based gaming and entertainment platforms, which is more than what Valve apparently has planned for its official Steam Box.

Piston, then, will almost certainly behave like a console in that it will appear – at first glance – to only be able to run Steam by default.

“Piston will also support a raft of other Internet-based gaming and entertainment platforms, which is more than what Valve apparently has planned for its official Steam Box,” Sullivan wrote.

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 Xi3 Piston, the first of the unofficial Steam Boxes, will be launching around Christmas this year with a $1,000 price tag.

The Xi3 Piston--the third-party "Steam Box" that Valve is helping finance--has been officially priced to start at $1,000. The ultra-small Piston is packing 8GB of RAM and a 3.2GHz Quad Core AMD ...

Hardware maker Xi3 has addressed today's confusion, telling Kotaku tonight that despite Valve's statements this morning, the Steam makers actually asked Xi3 to design the Piston PC.

Valve opened up, and out came the Piston: A micro PC collaboration between Valve and computer manufacturer Xi3 was revealed as a development-stage "Steam Box" at the Consumer Electronics Show ...

“In this way, the Piston Console could be perceived as something more than just a Steam Box, which makes sense because at its core the Piston Console is a Modular Computer that can run any ...

Xi3 is offering a $100 discount on advance orders of its compact Piston modular gaming PC, which will run the Steam gaming service.

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 ...