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Gabe Newell: Linux and Open Source are the future of gaming

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Gabe Newell made an appearance at LinuxCon in New Orleans:

In the video he makes an interesting point about today’s users being more like developers. Thanks to Valve people can make their own games with the Source Engine, game modes, game content for their favorite Steam Workshop games and of course videos with Source Filmmaker. Valve is an open minded company, and open minded companies benefit from Open Source programs. This is where Linux comes into play. At this point it has more of a future than Windows. Hell, even the Playstation 4 will be using a modified FreeBSD Linux distro. This could leave Microsoft at a bit of a disadvantage. If they’re not careful there is a large possibility that more developers will pull their focus towards OpenGL over Direct X. However, only time can tell us how that will pan out.

Back on topic, Gabe Newell also announced how Linux will be making it into our living rooms. Won’t that be kewl. :3

Microsoft doesn’t see Valve as competition for XBox

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http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/5/406695 … competitor

Valve is preparing to enter the console market with its “Steam Box” gaming hardware, but Microsoft doesn’t consider it as a competitor just yet. Speaking at Microsoft’s TechForum this week, Don Mattrick, president of the Interactive Entertainment Business, fielded questions about the strategy for Xbox and its competition. Asked about viewing Valve as a competitor, Mattrick simply said “no” before noting Valve is “doing some innovative stuff” and creating some great experiences. “The scale of products and things that are being brought to market are probably a little bit richer when I look at Sony, Nintendo, Apple, and Google,” noted Mattrick.

You know. A long time ago Gabe went back to microsoft to see if they would be interested in partnering up with Valve, only to get shot down. It’s nice to see they still haven’t learned anything.

Valve proves once again how awesome they are.

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There has been quite a bit of controversy regarding the Tux item released to people who use Linux distros. People have been “faking” linux installs to get the item and Valve is paying attention.

Well I didn’t personally but, this is something that I was curious about and, a friend just confirmed it. I offered him the use of my Linux machine via Teamviewer to get his Linux Penguin. He said he was uneasy about doing that and, said he was gonna look and, see if there was another way on Youtube.

Okay, whatever, it’s no skin of my nose. He came upon a video about changing what TF2 reads as your OS and, I guess he did it because I later saw that his name changed to I cheated for a tux. I thought he did it himself so I didn’t press the issue but, we started talking about the penguin like 30 minutes ago and, he mentioned that Steam changed his name on it’s own.

I wondered why and, then it hit me. It had to have been because he didn’t get it through the correct means and, the outcome made me laugh. I did a search for the name “I cheated for a tux” and, this is what I saw “Showing 1 – 50 of 3,884” amazing, huh.

That is hilariously awesome.

TF2 continues to get more awesome.

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Awhile back Valve and Adult Swim started a colab during “Pyromania”. If you signed up for Adult Swim’s newsletter you would get a genuine Robot Chicken hat. Then later on there was a TF2 sketch on Robot Chicken:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qdu_ZXHS-c

But it doesn’t end there. Today at the TF2 blog and Adult Swim it’s been announced that some Adult Swim items will be making an appearance in a future update.

I’ve never purchased anything from the Mannco store, but this is tempting. 😀 It would also be nice to see the scouts as Hank and Dean, Dr Weird for the Engie, Harvey Birdman for the spy, Black Dynamite for the Demo and… I could take an entire day naming them off!

Steam to release it’s own console like PC

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With BIG PICTURE getting good reception. Valve will be making their own console style PC. 😀

“Well certainly our hardware will be a very controlled environment,” he said. “If you want more flexibility, you can always buy a more general purpose PC. For people who want a more turnkey solution, that’s what some people are really gonna want for their living room.

It’s like a console but minus the walled garden. 😀