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01-07-2013, 10:50 AM
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Valve's rumored "Steam Box," a compact PC designed to easily connect to televisions and leverage Steam's Big Picture Mode (http://joystiq.com/tag/big-picture-mode), will debut this year according to a report from German site Golem.de (http://www.golem.de/news/pc-spielekonsole-steam-box-ohne-windows-1212-96609.html). Furthermore, the Steam Box will supposedly run on Linux. That wouldn't be too surprising given Valve head Gabe Newell's distaste for Windows 8 (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/25/gabe-newell-windows-8-is-a-catastrophe-adobe-should-try-hat/) and the company's recent Linux push (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/09/linux-system-requirements-pop-up-on-some-steam-games/). The 2013 release also gels with Newell's recent comments predicting a spate of TV- and Steam-friendly hardware (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/08/valves-gabe-newell-talks-turnkey-living-room-hardware/) launching in 2013 from various companies, including Valve.
The news was supposedly confirmed by Valve electrical engineer Ben Krasnow during the EHSM conference (http://ehsm.eu/index.html) in Berlin last month. Krasnow, incidentally, was there to show off his homemade X-ray scanner (https://plus.google.com/115054970849159689228/posts/TBC1YMsqu4D). Given that his personal projects also include, among other things, a DIY rocket engine (http://plus.google.com/115054970849159689228/posts/Xi41o1xbsBs), we'd say he's probably qualified to help build a little computer.
Valve has plenty of opportunities to announce the hardware this year, including GDC (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/gdc-2013) in March, E3 (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/e3-2013) in June, Gamescom in August, or even CES, which takes place this week. For what it's worth, Valve chose to announce (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/28/steam-big-picture-mode/) Big Picture Mode at GDC 2011. Of course, given this is Valve we're talking about, the company could just hold an event of its own.http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)Rumor: Valve to unveil Steam Box this year, will use Linux (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/07/rumor-valve-to-unveil-steam-box-this-year-will-use-linux/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Valve's rumored "Steam Box," a compact PC designed to easily connect to televisions and leverage Steam's Big Picture Mode (http://joystiq.com/tag/big-picture-mode), will debut this year according to a report from German site Golem.de (http://www.golem.de/news/pc-spielekonsole-steam-box-ohne-windows-1212-96609.html). Furthermore, the Steam Box will supposedly run on Linux. That wouldn't be too surprising given Valve head Gabe Newell's distaste for Windows 8 (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/25/gabe-newell-windows-8-is-a-catastrophe-adobe-should-try-hat/) and the company's recent Linux push (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/09/linux-system-requirements-pop-up-on-some-steam-games/). The 2013 release also gels with Newell's recent comments predicting a spate of TV- and Steam-friendly hardware (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/08/valves-gabe-newell-talks-turnkey-living-room-hardware/) launching in 2013 from various companies, including Valve.
The news was supposedly confirmed by Valve electrical engineer Ben Krasnow during the EHSM conference (http://ehsm.eu/index.html) in Berlin last month. Krasnow, incidentally, was there to show off his homemade X-ray scanner (https://plus.google.com/115054970849159689228/posts/TBC1YMsqu4D). Given that his personal projects also include, among other things, a DIY rocket engine (http://plus.google.com/115054970849159689228/posts/Xi41o1xbsBs), we'd say he's probably qualified to help build a little computer.
Valve has plenty of opportunities to announce the hardware this year, including GDC (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/gdc-2013) in March, E3 (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/e3-2013) in June, Gamescom in August, or even CES, which takes place this week. For what it's worth, Valve chose to announce (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/28/steam-big-picture-mode/) Big Picture Mode at GDC 2011. Of course, given this is Valve we're talking about, the company could just hold an event of its own.http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)Rumor: Valve to unveil Steam Box this year, will use Linux (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/07/rumor-valve-to-unveil-steam-box-this-year-will-use-linux/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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