'Steam Box' gaming console

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Dota? Fuck you Valve, announce Half life 3 already.

I doubt Half-Life 3 is even out of pre-production yet after seeing those leaks of Valve's project/bug thing, lol.

God damn it

Haha!

slightly lame, but I'll get over it.

A SteamOS, didn't see that coming.

But the real test will be about how easy they've made porting games. If they've made it incredibly easy then they're going to be printing even more monies~

The streaming thing is interesting. Will they take it a step further and allow remote streaming like Sony and OnLive, for those without a powerful PC sat elsewhere in the house?

edit: nevermind

So I guess all these are going to be to do with Steam and maybe Dota2?

Steam OS:

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

This is exactly what I was expecting, but I'm still underwhelmed.

I am interested in knowing how fast unity will support this platform and how easy it will be for indie content creators to access the SDK.

I predict they will be giving their engine for free to attract making games on their platform as they already earn on releases of games on steam.

Well, this is the stepping stone to build a Steambox, i guess we were all expecting it (it was rumored back then)... just we weren't expecting it deserving an announcement of its own.

As per the Source 2 i expect something similar to what Nysuatro said, even though they could easily go "classic" and license like Crytek/Epic do, with a free+royalties, or paid license. What i'd like to see is a multiplatform SDK, so people can turn a Linux machine in a competitive game production workstation.

I'm really curious what they mean and expect as user generated content, how they see this "Users can alter or replace any part of the software or hardware they want".

Family sharing is really a letdown, but was already known to be on the same machine.

Friend of mine is betting for a Steam for PS4 in the announcements.

Can't wait to see some video of the UX or pics of UI !

two pics of the UI for you then

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what this is is (probably Ubuntu) based distrib of Linux, that can automatically launch the Steam Big Picture Mode, is really light weight and down to the hardware and boots up hopefully really quick.

The way they say it I guess its still (partially at least) OpenSource and you can still access the standard (Ubunut/KDE/whatever its based on) Desktop and use it as a work machine, you can still install Windows on a seperate Boot, you could install a Linux based Origin if EA would have it, etc.. The fact that they give it away for free also means that everyone can build their own PC or if they buy, say a "DELL STEAMBOX 5" - they could (if dell build it like that) open the case and exchange the GPU after a year to play "contemporary military shooter megarealism 10" without wasting the rest of the systemm.

A friend put it really well saying "Xbox and PS4 are the iPhones and Windows Phones, SteamOS has the opportunity to become the next Android" - everyone does what they want with it, can feed of custom versions of it and even build their own stores on it. Its just making a Linux System more appealing to the mass-market with a thought through interface.

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I just zoomed in on that button. There is something which looks like it could be the HL Lambda but there's a big ass blurred square covering most of it.

Pls Valve. Just tell us what you're doing.