Valve announces Steam OS, a living room operating system for games

[xxMATTGxx]

Valve announces Steam OS, a living room operating system for games

Valve is done teasing. Today, Valve has revealed SteamOS, its own operating system based on Linux, and designed for video game consoles.

It's only the first of three announcements that Valve is expected to issue this week.

We've been following the Steam Box saga for well over a year now, watching Valve as it experimented with game controllers, denounced Windows 8 in favor of Linux, and called out Apple as a threat. We theorized about what the Steam Box could be. In January, we spoke to Valve co-founder Gabe Newell himself about his plans for the project, but it's only now that we're seeing the fruition of those dreams.

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Article Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/23/4762370/steam-box-os

Or you can visit the Steam Site directly for information: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/


Thoughts?

[RyRy]

That's awesome, I love the "cooperating system" thing too, that's a really clever play on words haha. This has the potential to blow a few consoles out of the living room, and might even give developers some motivation to get their titles to Linux.

[peteyt]

Wonder what the other two reveals will be, one probably will be the steam box

[RyRy]

One will be Steam Box, possible the other one will be software to go with Steam OS... And if there's any game that's going to draw massive attention to this project, it's Half Life 3.

[peteyt]

One will be Steam Box, possible the other one will be software to go with Steam OS... And if there's any game that's going to draw massive attention to this project, it's Half Life 3.

Yeah that's the one that I'm hoping for and probably everyone else but there's always possible hints that always turn out to be nothing

[RyRy]

Somebody made a great shout today regarding this, third announcement could be their controllers. Not sure but it's a possibility.

[xxMATTGxx]

Their 2nd announcement is: Steam Machines which will be running the SteamOS - More Info at: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/

[peteyt]

Would sign up for the beta but you need a game pad

[samsaBEAR]

Announcement 3 is a controller - http://store.steampowered.com/living...eamController/

While I can see them wanting to do their own controller, this just looks so silly. The trackpads are a neat idea but anyone with small thumbs is going to find reaching over to the buttons so uncomfortable, I don't see how this is really any better than plugging in an Xbox or Playstation controller.

[Stephen]

surprise 4th announcement

STEAM KEYBOARD AND MOUSE

surprise 5th announcement

STEAM HEADSET

surprise 6th announcement

JUST GIVE US ALL YOUR ******* MONEY