Steam Machine
It’s official: iBuyPower’s Steam Machine at $499
So only in a couple of days from now will be seeing an explosion of Steam machine news coming from CES in Las Vegas. Even though we already know a lot about it, what still remains unclear is who will plan to sell their own Steam Machines and for what price. We presume iBuyPower should be one of the top contenders. They plan to make a Steam Machine around the size of a PS4, and just a bit smaller than an Xbox One, which will include a multi-core AMD Cpu, 500GB hard drive , WiFi, Bluetooth, and an AMD Radeon R9 270 graphics card. That card alone will set you back $180. If everything pans out then you can get these specifications for about $499 which could pose a major threat to Xbox One sales.
Steam Machine Prototype to be paired with Metro: Last Light
Game publisher Deep Silver has announced that the Steam Machine prototypes which are scheduled to be sent out later this year are bundled with a copy of the first-person shooter game, Metro: Last Light. In September, Valve asked Steam users interested in beta testing its new hardware to register through Steam by completing various steps, such as playing a game in Big Picture mode and joining a certain group.So out of all those who completed those necessary steps, 300 were chosen to receive the prototype hardware, which consists of both PC hardware designed for use with a television in a living room-type setting and the Steam Controller. One of the primary goals with the controller is to make something suitable for all types of PC games; hence by including a copy of Last Light, beta tester...
Valve Unleashes the Steam Controller
Valve came out with the final announcement of the week, with the Steam Controller. They seem to be set out with a singular goal: to bring the Steam experience, in its entirety, into the living-room. Here are the few brief highlights of the controller. Complete catalog The Steam Controller is designed to work with all the games on Steam: past, present, and future. Even the older titles in the catalog and the ones which were not built with controller support will can be played using this new controller. Superior performance Traditional gamepads force us to accept compromises. With a goal to improve upon the resolution and fidelity of input that’s possible with those devices, the Steam controller offers a new and, we believe, vastly superior control scheme. Steam claims the controller is just...