We've known that game company and Steam operator Valve Software was going to offer prototypes of its hardware to Steam users for some time, but company head Gabe Newell says those prototypes will start arriving in the next three to four months time.
We've known that game company and Steam operator Valve Software was going to offer prototypes of its hardware to Steam users for some time, but company head Gabe Newell niw says that those prototypes will start arriving in the next three to four months time.
Valve denies being made an actual offer, only confirming that it received interest in both Steam and Valve in the past.
Some companies, including both Steam parent Valve Software and EA, are both creating content and distributing it to customers.
All it means is that the Piston is not the Steam Box that Valve plans to release.
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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.
Valve runs Steam - an alternative games store marketplace - as well as developing its own titles.
In February 2009, pressure levels spiked inside Reactor 1, forcing the release of steam through an emergency valve.
It competes against rival platforms including Valve's Steam, EA's Origin and Activision Blizzard's Battle.net.
"Microsoft get a lot of things right, " said Jason Kingsley, founder of Rebellion Studios, which currently sells games on Valve's Steam platform.
Valve runs the online Steam gaming service through which many players buy and manage their games.
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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Like other Valve titles recently released to Steam for Linux, Half-Life 2 is merely a beta for now.
If Valve does find success with Steam on Linux and gets the messaging right, Microsoft may start looking over its shoulder.
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News about the job posting came a day before Valve is due to expand its Steam online store to include non-game software.
If EA or Valve can shut down our Origin or Steam accounts, what happens to our catalog of titles?
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Indeed, it was that very dissonance between the game description and the game itself that led Valve to pull The War Z from Steam in the first place.
In a recent Reddit AMA he opened up about his feelings surrounding The WarZ, a game with such misleading product descriptions and questionable development that Valve felt compelled to pull it from Steam against an unstoppable wave of internet rage.
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Could the movie become a safety valve, encouraging its fans to let off steam?
If anything else, Valve is feeling increasingly validated in their choice to port Steam and its library of games to Linux.
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Now Valve has a way for developers to get their game an audience on Steam, its successful marketplace: Steam Greenlight.
Valve, best known for the Half-Life, Left4Dead and the Steam online game store has long been known to be working on a console or set-top box that puts PC-based titles onto a TV.
Even if the Steambox initiative fizzles, there's always the massive ongoing success of Steam's digital storefront to fall back on. 2013 may be the year that Valve attacks, but it's not just the company's internal hardware projects that are up for the challenge.
Steam's Big Picture Mode -- a TV- and controller-friendly version of Valve's widely used digital gaming service -- is the first volley in Valve's big living room push.
Mr Schreier is more positive about Valve's news, saying that bringing the large library of games on its Steam store to TVs could be a "game changer" since they typically sell for a fraction of the price of console disks.
In addition the chief executive of Valve - the creator of the influential science fiction games Half Life and Portal, as well as the Steam community and marketplace - was honoured with an Academy Fellowship, Bafta's highest accolade.
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