Helping Valve to power up Steam devices
“Igalia’s work has opened new possibilities in gaming” Nov 21, 2025 Last week, Valve stunned the computer gaming world by unveiling three new gaming devices at once: the Steam Frame, a wireless VR headset; the Steam Machine, a gaming console in the vein of a PlayStation or Xbox; and the Steam Controller, a handheld game controller. Successors to the highly successful Valve Index and Steam Deck, these devices are set to be released in the coming year. Igalia has long worked with Valve on SteamOS, which will power the Machine and Frame, and is excited to be contributing to these new devices, particularly the Frame. The Frame, unlike the Machine or Deck which have x86 CPUs, runs on an ARM-based CPU. Under normal circumstances, this would mean that only games compiled to run…
