"Microsoft get a lot of things right, " said Jason Kingsley, founder of Rebellion Studios, which currently sells games on Valve's Steam platform.
Available for download at www.geforce.com, the new R310 drivers were also thoroughly tested with Steam for Linux, the extension of Valve's phenomenally popular Steam gaming platform that officially opened to gamers starting today.
While Steam seeks to allow cross platform compatibility via PC and Mac games, and in some instances PS3 consoles, Gaikai was attempting to attract a wider audience.
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Oct 2, 2012 -- Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the first Software titles have launched via Steam, marking a major expansion to the platform known as a leading destination for PC and Mac games.
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So what we might be looking at here is an open platform specification where any OEM can build a Steam Box, and any OEM can build a SHIELD.
Should you already own a copy for another platform, it'll show up in your Steam library as available for download like any other crossplatform game.
Steam has an enormous library of games, and is the best platform for purchasing and downloading them across any platform, PC or console.
Steam's got 50 million users and growing, regardless of platform.
But if Valve wants to launch Steam Box with an initially exclusive title to draw users to the platform, the Half Life games are the biggest guns in their closet.
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The new release supports the Steam Play licensing system, meaning a customer can purchase it for one desktop platform and play it on another at no extra cost.
Analysts estimate the average revenue split is around 30-40% for Steam, the rest to the third-party game publishers that sell their titles on the platform.
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