Post by Dan @ 07:30am 21/09/13 | 22 Comments
A message from Valve's media contact Doug Lombardi explained that "As Gabe mentioned a few days ago, we will be talking next week about the steps we're taking to make Steam more accessible on televisions and in the living room", and points to the teaser page which bears the headline "The Steam Universe is Expanding in 2014" and the following note:
Last year, we shipped a software feature called Big Picture, a user-interface tailored for televisions and gamepads. This year we’ve been working on even more ways to connect the dots for customers who want Steam in the living-room. Soon, we’ll be adding you to our design process, so that you can help us shape the future of Steam.Earlier this week, Valve head honcho Gabe Newell gave a presentation at LinuxCon, confidently posturing that the company sees the Linux platform as the future for gaming, and saying "Next week we’re going to be rolling out more information about how we get there and what are the hardware opportunities that we see for bringing Linux into the living room and potentially pointing further down the road to how we can get it even more unified with mobile".
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Posted 09:32am 21/9/13
Steambox is my bet for one, nfi what the rest would be.
Posted 11:08am 21/9/13
Posted 02:35pm 21/9/13
Posted 05:55pm 21/9/13
Gabe doesn't 'get it'.. he never did
perhaps if his purse could afford Carmack...
( yeah I know - lol )
Posted 11:19pm 21/9/13
No more PC support, will only run on dedicated hardware
No more keyboard and mouse support, will require gamepads only
Half life 3
The future of gaming is consoles
Posted 11:24am 23/9/13
yeah, no
Posted 11:34am 23/9/13
Im guessing:
* Big Picture/Hardware for TV Steam
* More on Linux
* Half Life 3
Posted 11:41am 23/9/13
* Big Picture/Hardware for TV Steam
* Steam to Android/windows mobiles/tablets
* Half Life 3
Posted 10:30pm 23/9/13
Posted 10:45pm 23/9/13
Posted 10:47pm 23/9/13
Even a small piece of HL3 news would cause me to release my load. Pls make it happen Valve.
Posted 10:52pm 23/9/13
Posted 12:23am 24/9/13
well it's kinda like that, except s/surfer/gamer
and it's not an obsession, it's a hobby. obsession would imply something you couldn't go without, like the oil obsession/addiction.
anything you spend enough time and money on inevitably will become some kind of obsession or intense like :/
now, can you stop with your argumentative debasing of gaming discussion on a games forum ?
Posted 04:25am 24/9/13
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Posted 09:11am 24/9/13
Posted 06:13pm 24/9/13
My gut still says this is bad for gaming, just encouraging more console/living room like gaming.
Posted 10:23pm 24/9/13
It didn't grab me, I had no "oh god, I've really gotta finish this game" feeling. I played it a few times, and then never went back to it. I possibly should give it another shot.
Posted 12:23am 25/9/13
Always thought a Gaming OS would be a good idea but it will need high tier top quality 3rd party support for it to happen.
Posted 01:45am 25/9/13
Same here. I never totally got into the HL / HL2 games. I very rarely ever finish single player games though so my opinion is worth very little.
Ok stupid question about steamos but, will it support windows games? or are they going the whole linux binaries only route? Man, I remember back in early 2000's? the whole linux craze where you could get opengl drivers for all the good video cards and all the decent games had linux binaries available. Pretty funny if it all goes back to those days and all the linux nerds cream themselves over it. I might just install linux again just to piss my brother off who looooooves windows (hates macs + linux).
Posted 02:18am 25/9/13
Felt like I was the only gamer on the planet who wasn't that excited about HL3. Though the half life 3 confirmed conspiracies are kind of funny.
Posted 08:24am 25/9/13
windows only games is what the streaming functionality is for.