• Details emerge on Valve 'console'
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20663179#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa[/url]
It's just like sitting around the table on a kid birthday, whispering a word into the ear of your mate to the left, until the word is disorted completely when it gets all the way around the table.
[quote]Valve is best known for Half Life and survival horror game Left 4 Dead[/quote] whats a counter strike?
I hope they do run on Linux, it'll be much more stable. I think most people get put off by PC gaming because there's so many problems you can run into
[quote]The plan to produce a "very controlled" set-top box was revealed in an interview with gaming website [B]Kotaku[/B] about the future of the PC. [/quote] BBC please, you can get better sources than that
[i]Kotaku. Professional gaming journalism.[/i]
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;38775449]I hope they do run on Linux, it'll be much more stable. I think most people get put off by PC gaming because there's so many problems you can run into[/QUOTE] More like they see that consoles cost less and their friends already have a console.
[QUOTE=GreenDolphin;38775514][i]Kotaku. Professional gaming journalism.[/i][/QUOTE] Kotaku, anime sexpillow professionals, also gaming news
Should just be a PC, but with Steam as an OS instead of a program. That'd be amazing :v:
[QUOTE=Lizzrd;38775438]whats a counter strike?[/QUOTE] And Team Fortress 2. And like... Portal and stuff.
Isn't the whole point that you can use your existing more powerful rig to play games on your TV? Then wouldn't it make more sense for them to release a wireless HDMI router with a controller reciever?
[QUOTE=borisvdb;38776406]wireless HDMI router with a controller reciever?[/QUOTE] If you could get decent latency, that's actually a brilliant idea
[QUOTE=borisvdb;38776406]wireless HDMI router with a controller reciever?[/QUOTE] I'd buy this.
[QUOTE=Stopper;38775884]And Team Fortress 2. And like... Portal and stuff.[/QUOTE] We all know Ricochet is the best of them all, don't even try to deny it.
[QUOTE=Riller;38775667]Should just be a PC, but with Steam as an OS instead of a program. That'd be amazing :v:[/QUOTE] Doing so would be kind of hypocritical considering their complaint about the direction windows is going and consoles is that you are forced to use their own systems and stores no matter what. I wouldn't be surprised if it was like Linux or something and it was configured to start Steam with big picture mode enabled as soon as the OS boots, it will be fool proof in the sense that it wont be easy to break by just your average user, but it most likely will be pretty easy to modify and do what you want with it. It would be too much effort to both give users freedom over the machine as well as create a Steam OS.
So where are the details? :v:
L4D = Survival horror. This article is balls.
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;38775449]I hope they do run on Linux, it'll be much more stable. I think most people get put off by PC gaming because there's so many problems you can run into[/QUOTE] How would it be more stable? There's no inherent stability to linux machines. And on top of that, you'd be dealing with an OS that could run at best 5% of most people's libraries, with no incentives for devs to move to openGL.
Still feel good to see anything about Valve on the BBC website.
Why didnt they mention Day of Defeat: Source. It is hands down better then Counter Strike.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;38779977]How would it be more stable? There's no inherent stability to linux machines. And on top of that, you'd be dealing with an OS that could run at best 5% of most people's libraries, with no incentives for devs to move to openGL.[/QUOTE] Windows is not the operating system for such a platform, Valve is pushing hard on other devs to port to Linux so I can imagine there's a reason for it.
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