Valve Software has a presence at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show, during which founder Gabe Newell gave an extensive interview to The Verge about Steam, Steam Box (the term being given to Valve’s living room PC project), and more. Money quote: So are most of these going to be Linux-based Steam Boxes? We’ll come [...]
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. As it turns out, the... (read more)
I don’t normally expect much to come out of Spike TV’s annual Video Game Awards, but Kotaku managed to score a gem of an interview with Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell earlier this weekend.
“Si, ma chissà quando…” più o meno questo era stato il tono di alcuni commenti riguardanti la notizia secondo cui Valve rilascerà Steam e il Source Engine per Linux; a quanto pare, chi non era fiducioso è destinato ad essere smentito, innanzi tutto coi fatti, ma prima di questi con le parole di Gabe Newell, impiegato Valve, il quale ha confermato ad un lettore di Phoronix che Ste
As it turns out, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell gets awfully chatty when he attends award ceremonies.
It’s been a while since Valve Software has said anything official about their games and Linux, at least as far as clients are concerned. Recently, Podcast 17 conducted an interview with Gabe Newell, in which he addressed the difficulties of supporting our platform: GABE @ 02:13: I don’t think that our motivation is to delay [...]
Valve's Gabe Newell
The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People dont realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well. Its a hedging strategy. I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space.
Gabe Newell has once again trashed Windows 8 saying users will probably 'rage quit' computing after using Windows 8.
He further says that he may be wrong and Microsoft may make money out of it but most of the users will hate it. Check out video by GT.TV:
On a related note, RPS published an article speculating on chances of a Linux based SteamOS.
L’euforia collettiva per l’impegno di Gabe Newell e Valve nei confronti di Linux, seguita dalla candida opinione del co-fondatore della software house statunitense per cui Windows 8 è da considerarsi una catastrofe, avrebbe contagiato anche Blizzard – per gli amanti del gaming sinonimo (ma non solo) di World of Warcraft – che dalle parole di Rob Pardo, sembra concordare con
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