Pirate Community Steam Group

[Haruka]

Here's the official page: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

Wow, Valve is really serious about this.

[Master]

Apparently that's not the only thing they're announcing this week.

[Bradandez]

Have they announced anything else?

[Master]

Not yet, but if you look here: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/
There's another countdown, and two other greyed out circles.

[MrBadGuy]

MOAR ANNONCEMANTS?
HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIMED!!!111

[Bradandez]

Cool! I'll be patient.

[OCG]

Steam Box is most likely other thing.

[Master]

Well, best be posted, the truth will be revealed in a few hours.
If Valve do announce a Steam Box after years of rumour, gosh, even if it was the writing on the wall, it will still take some accustoming to.

[Master]

IT EXISTS! THE STEAM BOX EXISTS!...well, kinda: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/
Yeah, I know, double post, but this is interesting stuff, and I think you fellows may find this stuff interesting

[OCG]

Thanks for link

[Master]

There's one more announcement to come at the end of the week, but I must say, this is turning out to be quite an interesting bunch of announcements indeed.

[MrBadGuy]

Soooo... the new controller looks... interesting.
Not sure I like their solution for replacing analogue sticks, but who knows, it might be better.

[Master]

Very curious design indeed, wonder how it'd work irl.

[OCG]

Soooo... the new controller looks... interesting.
Not sure I like their solution for replacing analogue sticks, but who knows, it might be better.

OMG?
What is this thing? It looks cool but I could never control with those things.

[Master]

Let's not make any assumptions, we've not used the controls ourselves. I trust Valve chose that design for good reason(s).

[MrBadGuy]

Very curious design indeed, wonder how it'd work irl.

They seem confident that it give the user more control than sticks, but it's hard to imagine that being true.
Especially after experiencing awful "analogue" control with iPhone apps for years.
But we are talking about Valve here, unlikely they'd go for this without being 100% sure about it.

[Master]

Hence why I'd like to wait before we start going off.

[OCG]

Very curious design indeed, wonder how it'd work irl.

They seem confident that it give the user more control than sticks, but it's hard to imagine that being true.
Especially after experiencing awful "analogue" control with iPhone apps for years.
But we are talking about Valve here, unlikely they'd go for this without being 100% sure about it.

Experience with iPhone version of R2 is why I am afraid of this controller. I could not even rescue Ly on iPhone.
But I guess this is Valve like you guys said so I wont be negative towards it. It just scares me.

[Master]

Heh, though I must say, it looked like a fancy speaker at first.

[MrBadGuy]

I thought the picture was of the back of the controller when I first saw it.