Universe Expanding

[Overdriven]

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

Could be interesting.

[[ptx]]

Hello, Steambox.

[Kafein]

Three dots with stuff in it : Half Life 3 announced

[Christo]

Big Picture mode already annoys me because I often click on it instead of friendslist

[Polobow]

They'll probally get up to 2 announcements, forgetting the third dot all together.

[[ptx]]

One more hour.

[[ptx]]

Annnnnd, the first clue is out - SteamOS

Oh, those features sound... nice

[Ninja_Khorin]

Not really sure what to think of it. Doesn't really make me excited or disappointed.

I fail to see any reason for me to use it, unless they do a dick move like announcing Half Life 3 for SteamOS.

[[ptx]]

I don't think i myself am going to use any of that in the foreseeable future, but i'm more excited for what this could mean for the gaming industry in general - more PC oriented games, better support for those and overall less of a barrier between consoles and PC gaming - all of which would be good for me.
And, when they inevitably reveal Steambox (worst kept secret, ever?), that, in combination with SteamOS, sounds like the sort of console i can see myself actually getting someday.

[zagibu]

I'm not sure they are going to release a steam box themselves. It looks more as if they'd be providing the OS and services and let other people provide the hardware. You know, open, and all. This could also be a great push for Linux in general, because if it takes off, hardware vendors will finally be encouraged to write good Linux drivers.

[[ptx]]

Regarding Linux drivers, anyone still remembers, when Valve were porting their games to Linux not that long ago and working to optimize them and get proper driver support? Suddenly seems to be in context

[cmp]

Developing their own drivers in secrecy? I'm sure they'll open source them later, but that's not a very good start to their "everything open" policy.

[[ptx]]

IIRC, not their own drivers, but rather, working with manufacturers to improve their drivers? I might be mistaken, don't remember exactly.

[Kafein]

The way I see it, this might be an attempt at making an OS that could run on a flashed console.

[Polobow]

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