Dell's Alienware Alpha is an affordable gateway to PC gaming in the living room, tied together by an intuitive -- if barebones -- console-like user interface. The Forbes review is inside.

Alienware is prepping a true 'PC console' that suppresses Windows and makes couch-based PC gaming legitimately approachable -- even for PC gaming virgins.

Valve might be delaying the launch of Steam OS-based consoles until 2015, but Alienware is moving, well, full-steam ahead with its own Alpha console. The catch? It will launch running Windows 8.1 ...