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Currys/PC World owner says it’s keeping close tabs on Valve’s new Steam Machines to bring devices to the High Street. Valve took to the stage at this year’s CES show to lift the lid on the long-awaited devices and confirmed 13 partners would produce their own iterations of the device, …
Read More »Newell on Xbox One threat: "It’d take a while for them to catch up with Steam"
Xbox One has already sold 3m machines. But Valve founder Gabe Newell isn’t worried. Kotaku reports that when Newell was asked about the potential threat posed by Microsoft’s machine at CES yesterday, he responded: Well, it’d take a while for them to catch up. I mean, we’re at 65m.” He …
Read More »Valve unveils 13 Steam Machine models
Prices for SteamOS hardware range from $499 to $6,000
Read More »Alienware’s Steam Machine amongst 13 confirmed devices
13 of the upcoming Steam Machines have at last been detailed, including one from gaming PC specialist Alienware. Alienware’s device is apparently a result of a four-year collaboration with Valve and is designed to combine the ease of a console with the freedom of a PC”. "We have been working …
Read More »Starbound sells 1m copies through Steam Early Access
Steam’s Early Access program has paid off for yet another studio, as UK-based indie developer Chucklefish has announced its upcoming title Starbound has exceeded 1m copies sold. The studio’s Twitter account revealed the figure, which was gathered in just over a month of availability through the PC digital distribution giant. …
Read More »Windows 8 now on 20% of Steam user’s PCs
It may have had a rocky start in life, but Windows 8 adoption is clearly increasing amongst PC gamers. PCGamesN reports that Windows 8 is now installed on 19.97 per cent of PCs owned by those logging in to Steam. That’s up on 18.45 per cent the month before. Windows …
Read More »12 Steam Machine manufacturers named
Another ten firms are supporting Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine console, according to a report. As reported byEngadget, companies such asiBuyPowerand Digital Storm were already revealed as developing hardware for Valve’s new SteamOS, but another ten firms are now set to show their own systems during the Consumer Electronics Show 2014 …
Read More »12 firms developing Steam Machines
Half-Life developer gathers third-party momentum for free SteamOS
Read More »Rekoil heads to XBLA, Steam later this month
Plastic Piranha’s upcoming FPS Rekoil will land on Xbox Live Arcade and Steam later this month, publisher 505 Games has announced. A 505 rep confirmed to Polygon that the downloadable title will launch for PC on Steam January 28th. Rekoil: Liberator will launch a day later on January 29th for …
Read More »Valve tightens up Steam family sharing
Valve has updated its family sharing options for Steam games, implementing a new two-step validation process. A post on Steam’s community site explains that a user’s account will now need to get clearance from the original account holder – in addition to getting authorization on the receiver’s hardware – to …
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