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The Xi3 Corporation, after shedding more light on its relationship with games studio Valve, has now revealed that the amount of pre-orders received for its upcoming Piston mini PC has been quite large and that it's going to have problems satisfying all of its customers.
The Xi3 Piston mini PC promises to delive... |
14 March 2013
04:37 GMT |
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The Xi3 Corporation, the company behind the recently revealed Piston mini PC, has revealed more details about its deals with Valve and how the Piston is actually an even better version of the Steam Box that's currently being developed by the games studio.
Rumors about a Valve Steam Box have floated around the w... |
13 March 2013
08:08 GMT |
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David Politis, the chief marketing officer at Xi3, says that the upcoming Piston hardware will include three modular boards that can be used to quickly and easily implement hardware upgrades. The processor board can be changed, and the APU, which mixes elements form a GPU and CPU, can also be removed for an upgrade.... |
12 March 2013
08:49 GMT |
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Valve, the studio behind hit games and the Steam service, has issued an official statement, distancing itself from the Xi3 Piston mini PC and saying that it has no current involvement in the project.
After the Xi3 Corporation revealed its Piston mini PC, many media outlets boasted that the device would be the first ... |
12 March 2013
05:45 GMT |
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Xi3's is keen to capitalize on its status as the only announced and revealed Steam Box device via a new trailer that's designed to show off the unique capabilities of the hardware.
During SXSW, the development team announced that gamers would be able to pre-order a Piston by paying 999.99 dollars (around 7... |
11 March 2013
18:14 GMT |
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Unveiled earlier this year at Consumer Electronics Show 2013, in Las Vegas, Xi3's PISTON PC gaming console is now being showcased at the Gaming Expo during the 2013 South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
The good news is Xi3 Corporation has just announced it will begin accepting pre-orders for the PISTON... |
10 March 2013
09:50 GMT |
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Microsoft's head of Xbox, Don Mattrick, has revealed that he doesn't see Valve's upcoming Steam Box mini PC as a competitor to the company's Xbox brand.
Valve has gotten the attention of many people from all around the world with its Steam Box project, which aims at delivering high performance mi... |
6 March 2013
14:31 GMT |
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Gabe Newell, the leader of Valve, says that the hardware division of his company will begin testing its Steam Box in the coming months, although it is not clear whether the public will get information about them or whether only companies will be involved.
VG247 is quoting the executive as saying, “We’re ... |
6 March 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Valve is releasing yet another update for the client of its Steam digital distribution service, set to eliminate some of the bugs that have crept up since the previous version was introduced this week.
The full list of changes reads:
- Fixed texture corruption when using the Game Overlay in OpenGL games
- Fixed fa... |
16 February 2013
04:30 GMT |
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Valve boss Gabe Newell has made an official statement about the recent layoffs that occurred at the studio, confirming that they aren't the result of canceled projects and that the departure of the staff won't affect ongoing efforts.
Valve has become much more than just a game developer, as the studio is r... |
14 February 2013
03:31 GMT |
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Valve’s Linux-based Steam Box, an entertainment system that hopes to revolutionize console gaming, needs to roll out before Apple takes over the living-room, according to Gabe Newell.
While many analysts share Newell’s conviction that Apple will make its presence felt in the living room relatively soon, ... |
31 January 2013
07:25 GMT |
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Gabe Newell, the leader of developer Valve, believes that Apple is the biggest potential threat to the coming Steam Box, because the company has a big market share and knows how to create devices that can dominate the living room.
During a lecture given a the School of Public Affair at the University of Texas, the e... |
31 January 2013
05:36 GMT |
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Valve boss Gabe Newell has once again talked about PC gaming and how it can certainly replace the console-based one in the living room, provided there are features that enable such a thing.
Valve is more than just a video game developer, as the studio not only works on franchises like Half-Life or Portal, but it als... |
14 January 2013
12:21 GMT |
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It might be the thirteenth of the month but there’s no bad luck when recapping yet another week of video game content so let’s kick-off this article by pointing out that our first review for the week was for Minion Master, a free-to-play video game that mixes card play with tactics.We also have the contin... |
13 January 2013
05:11 GMT |
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The long- awaited 2013 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) took place this week and, while quite a lot of interesting devices were showcased by different companies, ranging from Android-powered ovens to all sorts of phones, there were also plenty of great gaming announcements.
The first thing to appear from the trade sho... |
12 January 2013
15:41 GMT |
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During CES 2013, Nvidia announced that it was working on a home console called Shield, while Valve also confirmed the existence of its own Steam hardware project. However, the already established players in the market believe that both ideas need more resources before they can challenge the Xbox, the PlayStation or t... |
11 January 2013
09:20 GMT |
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Valve boss Gabe Newell has once again talked about the upcoming Steam Box mini PC, saying that he's quite confident in the device, even if consoles like the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 are currently dominating gamers’ living rooms.
Valve is pushing its Steam service into the living room as new features, like the ... |
11 January 2013
03:31 GMT |
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Valve has officially clarified the speculation around its long-awaited Steam Box device, saying through the voice of its hardware engineer, Ben Krasnow, that the mini PC won't be revealed in 2013, despite previous reports.
Rumors about Valve's Steam Box have floated around the web for quite some time, but ... |
9 January 2013
09:12 GMT |
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Valve boss Gabe Newell has talked openly about the oft-rumored Steam Box mini PC, saying that his company will make its own official version of the device and help other companies, like Xi3, create their own versions of it. Valve has won over many gamers with great franchises like Half-Life or Portal, but also with ... |
9 January 2013
03:07 GMT |
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Steam Box is a concept console from Valve and, according to Gabe Newell, it will be Linux-based, although it's not going be limited only to the open source solution. A lot of rumors have circulated before and during CES 2013 about a possible Steam console, including one about an interesting mini PC called Xi3. ... |
9 January 2013
03:01 GMT |
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After hearing rumors about the oft-rumored Steam Box mini PC that's supposedly going to appear from Valve, Xi3 Corporation, a company specialized in making custom PC designs, has revealed at CES 2013 that it has partnered with Valve to create a special device that's capable of supporting Steam and its Big P... |
8 January 2013
04:29 GMT |
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New details have appeared about the oft-rumored Steam Box, the PC-based console from Valve, as one of the studio's hardware designers has apparently confirmed that the device will be released this year and that it's not powered by Windows, but by a Linux distribution. Valve has attracted millions of gamers... |
7 January 2013
07:51 GMT |
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The Steam Box was just a rumor and people have dismissed it a while ago, but it seems that Valve intentions were serious and they are planning to launch their own console, at least according to one of its engineers.
This is not the first time that a rumor about a Steam console has surfaced, but we were led to belie... |
7 January 2013
03:04 GMT |
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Over the weekend a strong rumor appeared that video game developer Valve was working on a new set-top box device called a Steam Box, designed to expand the range of PC-based gamers and to compete directly with Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.
A patent for a controller that Valve has been working on for the last three y... |
5 March 2012
09:28 GMT |
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There are suggestions that video game developer and Steam creator Valve is working on a set-top device called the Steam Box, which will allow the company to deliver video games to a wider audience and will put it in direct competition with the Microsoft made Xbox 360, the Sony developed PlayStation 3 and the upcoming... |
3 March 2012
09:59 GMT |
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