Despite Valve not offering any new updates regarding pricing or availability, three lucky individuals have a chance to win one in a new contest. The Steam Machine made quite a splash a few months back when Valve announced it, along with several other new products, and the two most commonly asked questions are how much and when it will arrive. Meanwhile, popular game trainer site, Cheat Happens, is offering a “Steam Super Bundle” which includes a Steam Machine, Steam Deck OLED, and Steam Controller. All in all, a pretty sweet prize for those wanting a mobile and home, gaming setup.
“We are awarding three (3) lucky winners with a STEAM MACHINE, STEAM DECK AND STEAM CONTROLLER (or PayPal cash). Available worldwide. No purchase necessary.
Winners to be announced on FEB 16-18. Prize must be claimed within 10 days of announcement of winners (by Feb 28, 2026). Contact chris@cheathappens.com to claim.”
– Cheat Happens
Cheat Happens regularly holds giveaways, more or less monthly, where the prizes are often hard-to-get high-end PC parts, such as an RTX 5090, so it’s interesting that it would choose this particular hardware, but then demand for the Steam Machine is expected to be high. It would also suggest that the site has managed to either procure three units already or perhaps has them lined up via its own channels.
The two big questions remain, though, when and how much. Valve has left many wondering if the pricetag will be too much, and given the current memory chip supply shortage and price increases, it’s becoming increasingly doubtful if it can even offer the lower-end model with 512 GB of storage at under $800. Regarding when Valve launches the Steam Machine, it could be soon, given that it is being offered as a prize in this contest (although it’s noted how CH included “or PayPal cash,” which could be in the event it’s unable to procure them). On the other hand, Valve did state it would launch in 2026, so there’s still hope.
Discussion (9 replies)
Join Discussion →As a lifetime tier 7 member... the drawings are a nice perk but ive never won anything through them as of yet. So dont go in expecting that. ;)
Thanks!
I found this there: https://www.cheathappens.com/cosmos.asp
I remember having fun with gamehack and gameshark before the year 2000. When you have too many games on your plate, hacking through them is the sensible way! :P
Same and me neither but I tend to not enter most if I already have what's being offered so I can let others have a chance.
These days I just use their Aurora app, so much easier and it's able to retain trainer settings which is awesome. Only real drawback is it doesn't support a lot of games from before around 3-5 years ago which puts you back into having to download those trainers.
Gameshark, good memories on PS1 and PS2.
That's weird. What was different about those games? If it's just searching for hex values in the game process's memory space, it shouldn't matter how old the game is.
It's just that the newer trainers are designed to work with the app. They can be used offline but the app will link to them online so you don't have to download them. Meanwhile the older trainers are standalone installs w/ no support for the new app. They'd basically have to go back and re-work thousands of the old ones to fix this and so probably not worth their time. The good news is that they still host those older files so you can download if needed.
Fascinating. It's like Steam but for trainers!
I was skeptical when they launched Aurora but now think its one of the best things ever for trainers.
Yea it is very nice and convenient.