Valve Shipping Steam Machines and Making SteamOS Available for Download 12/13

http://hothardware.com/newsimages/It...Controller.jpgValve will take its first step towards living room domination later this week when it begins shipping out Steam Machines and Steam Controllers to 300 selected beta participants. The hardware is scheduled to leave the factory on Friday, December 13, which means the lucky participants selected to trial run the gaming initiative based on SteamOS...

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The wait is (almost) over. On Friday, Valve will start shipping its Steam machines prototypes and controllers to 300 beta participants. Valve started notifying those who had been selected to receive the hardware at 5 p.m. ET today. Once the machines leave the factory later this week, the SteamOS

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http://static.techspot.com/images2/n...1-thumb4e7.jpg Valve has opened the flood gates if you're curious or brave enough to download and try the beta version of SteamOS which is making its public debut today. Some 300 lucky recipients were also slated to receive prototype hardware, including controllers, this weekend meanwhile the rest of us can take a...

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http://hothardware.com/newsimages/It..._Thumbnail.jpgAt long last, Valve's SteamOS is now available to download, albeit in beta form. This is a major step in what Valve hopes will be an evolutionary step in PC gaming, as it tries to displace (or at least co-exist) with traditional consoles in the living room. The other major goal with SteamOS is to break the dependency on Windows, which Valve...

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Anyone who fancies the idea of building their own gaming box can head over to the Valve website can grab themselves a beta copy of SteamOS. The Linux-based operating system is available for anyone to download free of charge and coincides with the shopping of 300 prototypes of Valve's Steam Machine

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http://static.techspot.com/images2/n...5-thumbcb5.jpg True to its word, Valve has released a beta version of SteamOS, the Linux-based operating system that it will use to power its living room Steam Machine consoles. The release coincides with a lucky group of 300 public beta testers...

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