Valve Teases Steam Box With Countdown Timer

[Seracen]

It's hilarious how HL3 has become another joke of the internet. I suppose since Duke Nukem Forever came out (and sucked), we could use a similar punchline.

Anyhoo, I really hope that isn't all there is to the controller, or that there's a touchscreen in the middle. I'm just concerned how that controller would replace mouse controls. Otherwise, I'm thinking we should expect to hook up a mouse and keyboard.

If so, I envision lap desks making big sales.

 

[Alcamonic]

Portal 3 with a special limited edition Companion Cube Steambox. My money cannot achieve enough velocity towards my screen fast enough!

 

[Vie]

You're confusing UEFI with Secure Boot there.

Secure Boot is a component of UEFI.

 

[thiosk]

It's hilarious how HL3 has become another joke of the internet. I suppose since Duke Nukem Forever came out (and sucked), we could use a similar punchline.

The difference is that the joke originates with the internet. Valve has said largely nothing about HL3. Really, we were expecting Episode 3 instead for years. People secretly snap photos of Valve's computer monitors when they get into the building and draw all sorts of conclusions. Valve is hounded about it at every turn. They've told us nothing and have not spent a penny to market it.

Duke Nukem Forever, on the other hand, when it did finally drop gamestop was honoring preorders from 2001. It had release dates pushed again and again and magazine articles following it the whole way.

 

[unstabLized]

I for one, think it might be an announcement related to L4D3. I mean, at least there's some evidence saying that they're working on it, but damn, imagine the outcry if Gabe said "Steam Box will launch on *insert date here*, and the first game that it will be launched with is Half Life 3." Boom. Creamed pants for gamers everywhere.

 

[Juan Regular]

Keep it mind that Newell has talked quite a bit about local streaming and it's possible that steambox is actually a streambox. Anyway, any news from valve is good news usually.

 

[Spud of Doom]

Curious. My guess is that they will be taking some kind of submissions of polls system in the near future. Or maybe starting a beta test. They seem to always try involve users somehow in the production of platforms.

 

[Zeckt]

Half life fan's have suffered enough. Please, please don't let us down. we neeeeed half life 3!

 

[Vigormortis]

I knew Valve was going to be making an announcement this coming week. Gabe Newell revealed as much during the LinuxCon2013 keynote speech.

But three announcements? Guess they have more to say than I assumed.

My guess, besides something about the Steambox, would be any of the following:

- Left 4 Dead 3
- Half-Life 3
- A proprietary, customizable controller
- VR/AR input device with biometric input and feedback
- A new IP
- A new partnership with a Linux distro, as well as the launch of their new debugging and porting toolset
- New promo-hats for TF2

Of these, I'm thinking it's most likel.....oh, who am I kidding? It'll be the hats.

 

[incandenza]

im pretty excited

 

[shadowuser10141]

It's probably a Valve-branded mini-ITX pc.
I'm intrigued.

 

[lacktheknack]

THAT CAT HAS THREE WHISKERS! O__O

I wonder if it really is a Steambox announcement. It would be cool if it does use a Linux kernel.

 

[Jodah]

Valve intends to break the internet. Steam Box, Portal 3, Half Life 3. In that order.

 

[Something Amyss]

Half life fan's have suffered enough. Please, please don't let us down. we neeeeed half life 3!

You'd suffer less if you stopped assuming it was coming every six weeks.

 

[TomWiley]

Will it play any of my existing Steam games? My guess is no.

 

[Jingle Fett]

SEE? Valve can count to 3! They're counting to 3 and counting to 3 all over the place and look how they count to 3. Lets see...

3 "C"s, Cardboard Cat looking at a Controller. Cat has 3 whiskers on one side. The controller has 3 buttons. And 3 announcements in 3 days.

HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED

Although for once that might actually end up being true.


Jokes aside, I'm guessing it'll Steam box and probably one/several of their "3" sequels as launch titles? There's quite a few possibilities..

Half-Life 3/Episode 3
Portal 3
Left 4 Dead 3
Team Fortress 3

Hmm...which one...

 

[Snazzymathematics]

I'm betting that 2 of the announcements are the Steambox and Source 2.

 

[Evil Smurf]

This would be a console I'd buy

 

[Mister K]

Now the only thing I need is for SNK to patch KoF XIII: SE so that it wouldn't crash, and you got yourself a customer.

 

[AlwaysPractical]

There's also a silhouette of a cat eyeballing a controller that looks suspiciously like a sandwich. I have no idea what to make of that.

Oh, Andy....

OT: This may be very interesting. If there is a steam box coming that will actually run a game at a low price, colour me extremely intrigued. If it is another feature like Big Picture, I will still be interested. I've messed about with Big Picture a bit and I really like it. We'll see, maybe this will be big and interesting.

Edit: It really does look like a sandwich, wow