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We play with the Steam Machine, Valve's game console of the future
Valve Corporation, the video game developer responsible for Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress , and the digital distribution platform Steam, has an ambitious plan to reinvent the video game console....
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iBuyPower's Steam Machine offers PC specs for the price of a new Xbox
Valve's official Steam Machine prototype isn't cheap, but it won't be the only Steam-powered video-game console available come 2014. This morning, iBuyPower revealed a prototype of its own upcoming...
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Who Will Buy A $500 Steam Machine?
A few days ago, we finally got a look at the hardware, price and a few performance markers of one of the many 3rd party manufactured Steam Machines being crafted at Valve's behest to supposedly complete with Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PS4, or even PC gaming itself. Jason Evangelho wrote..
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SteamOS available to download tomorrow: Stand by for a very slow Linux gaming revolution | ExtremeTech
The time for Linux gaming is finally almost upon us! Valve has confirmed that SteamOS will be released tomorrow, December 13.
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DistroWatch.com: SteamOS
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
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Steam Machines are here: how Alienware is realizing Valve's console dream
Nearly two years ago, we broke the news that Valve was working on its very own game console. The reasons weren't yet clear. We didn't yet know that the company wanted to throw off the shackles of Windows with its own Linux-based operating system, or that a host of PC manufacturers would take it seriously enough to build hardware.
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Valve: The future of Virtual Reality is just one year away
The most exciting aspect of contemporary virtual reality is its implications. Even using Oculus VR's early duct taped-prototype, most users immediately
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What VR Could, Should, and Almost Certainly Will Be within Two Years
We've figured out what affordable VR hardware will be capable of within a couple of years, and assembled a prototype that reveals that that level of VR hardware is capable of stunning VR experiences. That hardware is almost certainly going to appear in that timeframe, and it will be worth starting to develop for it now. This talk will discuss what that hardware is, and what it makes possible.
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Valve's virtual reality headset might be better than the Oculus Rift
Valve has been vocal in its support of virtual reality technology, saying that "compelling, consumer-priced VR hardware" could "transform the entertainment industry." Valve says it has offered help to Oculus as it works on the Rift headset, but the Bellevue-based developer is also apparently working on its own virtual reality hardware. A poster on gaming super-forum NeoGAF says he was invited to see and use that prototype after it was shown to a few game developers.
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Valve VR expert heads to Oculus
Valve VR engineer Atman Binstock has left the company to join Oculus as their Chief Architect. Binstock is described as "one of the lead engineers and driving forces" on Valve's VR project. He is responsible for creating the VR Room demo that was shown off at the Steam Dev Days earlier in the year.
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Valve sells out 10,000 tickets for Dota 2 championship event in an hour
The (Dota 2) International 2014 has sold out within an hour and tickets are already up for sale on eBay.
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DOTA 2 Outlines Spring Cleaning Update
Valve has not been amiss with fixing what ails their popular MOBA. You can get all the details here.
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Dota 2's The International 4 Compendium released
The Compendium for Dota 2's The International 4 tournament is now available, with some rather impressive goodies on offer.
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Valve Steam Machines delayed until 2015
Much to the frustration of gamers, Valve's SteamOS Linux-based Steam Machines will be delayed until 2015.
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Rising Angels: Reborn on Steam
Despite determination and skill, Natalie Puccile, a Special Investigations and Tactics officer, has spent her career watching over a listening post in the middle of deep space. After the orders that she has always dreamed of arrive, she finds herself in charge of a small destroyer and tasked with discovering the fate of a missing...
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Phantoms - NA on Steam
Experience the next generation of PC multiplayer shooters with Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Phantoms. Step into the boots of an elite Ghost and deploy cutting-edge weapons and technology as you link up with your squad to dominate your enemies on tomorrow’s battlefield.
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Steam Exploration Sale (Winter 2014 Sale)
Running from Nov 26 till Dec 2.
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Steam Machines are coming this fall and this is what they look like
Steam Machines. Maybe you've heard of them. They're Valve's oft-talked about, rarely seen in the wild solution for streaming PC games to the fancy HDTV in your living room. And at GDC this week, the company brought us closer to the promise of that commercial reality with a display of all the various units you're likely to see hit retail by November of this year.
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Valve’s Vive VR Prototype Is Better Than The Oculus Rift’s
I’ve used the Oculus Rift DK1, HD and DK2 for hours and hours and enjoyed my time with each of them immensely, but on each occasion, I’d feel some sense of relief upon taking the headset off. Relief that my head could cool down, relief my eyes could relax, relief that I hadn’t thrown up. When my twenty minutes with Valve and HTC’s Vive came to an end, I felt no relief. Instead, I only felt disappointed that I couldn’t continue exploring the 3D painting demo or...
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