A first look at the Alpha's console-like Windows 8 interface. Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York ...

Numerous Steam machines debuted at CES 2014, but Alienware's solution, the Alpha, stood out from the pack. It wasn't an underpowered or rebranded product, and it also wasn't sitting next to a four ...

For the past fortnight I've been living with one of Alienware's Alphas to see what it's like having a primordial Steam Machine hooked up to my television. I wanted to know how well it played games, ...

Alienware has created a monster. The boutique gaming-PC maker is marketing its new box, the Alpha, as a console. It’s actually a strange PC-console hybrid. It can certainly do things that no other ...

What will happen to the big push to bring PC gaming into the living room now that Valve’s delayed the Steam Controller that’s oh-so-crucial for the Steam Machine vision? That was the question on ...

The Alienware Alpha is meant to be managed by a controller (it comes with a Microsoft Xbox 360 controller), so it’s set by default to launch straight into the Dell Alpha UI, which in turn, can send ...