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Eyes-on with Valve's Steambox prototypes

The Steamboxes are here! Well ... sort of. The prototypes for various Steambox designs are certainly here at CES 2013, and we just spent a grip of time acquainting our lenses very closely with them. The devices range in size and form factor, as well as origin -- several of the devices we saw originate from Valve internal, but inclusions like Alienware's X51 and Digital Storm's Bolt were also being held up as examples of the ongoing "Steam in your living room" initiative (note: all the controllers are off-the-shelf Logitech wireless devices, not prototypes). The idea here, as Valve hardware engineer Jeff Keyzer told us, was to show off a variety of form factors for living room-friendly designs. We'll have more from our meeting later today, but for now you can feast your eyes on the elegant prototypes -- as well as Xi3's Piston, and the aforementioned other two third-party PCs -- that we'll be sure to see more of as 2013 goes on.

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LackTrue4K4215d ago

They both look cheap!!! And the controller look like it was made in the 90's!!! If there concepts/prototype make the hella flashy!! Haha like they made that big "X" that was all chrome out years ago for the Xbox

dirthurts4215d ago

These are mostly chassis that you can buy now, for cheap. Nothing here is really meant to be anything resembling a final product.
The controller is also a cheap Logitech controller I believe (not 100 percent sure on the brand, but I know I've seen them in stores).

sandman2244215d ago

I want to see how the final version of valves steam box handles battlefield 3

AKS4215d ago (Edited 4215d ago )

It might be a bit easier to just pick a game that's on Steam as a benchmark. Metro 2033 is pretty much guaranteed to drain a lot of processing resources even if you have a dual card setup (I do, and it is still taxing). Max Payne 3 also has a pretty high top end, especially with high AA. Far Cry 3 might be another option, but for my setup (which is an overpowered dual card rig), it's mostly antialiasing and postFX that are draining. It's pretty smooth for me otherwise.

Tetsujin4215d ago

I wonder if you can use your own controller on one, I have a usb port for a PS2 Controller I'd like to use on it.

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PSVR2 App for PC Now Live on Steam

Push Square writes: "A dedicated PSVR2 app has been published to PC platform Steam ahead of expanded compatibility for the VR headset going live on 7th August 2024. The application will be available the day before, and it guides you through the setup of the device for use on PC as well as acting as the place to update the headset and its Sense controllers when patches become available."

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Neonridr1d 5h ago

still can't order the adapter and we are less than 2 weeks away from August 7th.

anast2h ago

It's bring more needed games to the PC ecosystem. It looks like PC only has 1 VR game.

porkChop1h ago

What are you talking about? Most VR games are only available through PCVR.

anast39m ago

They can't be that good if the only game they show is Alyx.

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Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus Game Gets Physical Limited Edition for Steam

You heard it right, folks. A Limited Edition for Steam in 2024.

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FinalFantasyFanatic17d ago

I wish this would happen more often, there are a lot of Steam games I would buy limited physical editions for if they existed.

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Valve Might Be Working On Adding An Android Emulator In Steam

As per the latest discoveries by a popular SteamVR dataminer, Valve is rumored to be working on adding an Android emulator in Steam.

Chocoburger19d ago

Interesting, I currently using Bluestacks on my PC, it works okay, but not all games are compatible, and some work but with glitches, so it would be nice to have an alternative option.

FinalFantasyFanatic19d ago

I've had more or less the same experience with Bluestacks, so having a Steam equivalent, which may work similar or better (or even if it plays some stuff better than Bluestacks) would be wonderful.