STEAM BOX OFFICIALLY STEAM MACHINES (Escapist News Now)

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STEAM BOX OFFICIALLY STEAM MACHINES (Escapist News Now)

On their website Valve stated, "We want you to be able to choose the hardware that makes sense for you, so we are working with multiple partners to bring a variety of Steam gaming machines to market during 2014, all of them running SteamOS."

"We have designed a high-performance prototype that's optimized for gaming, for the living, and for Steam. Of course, it's also completely upgradable and open." Valve will ship out 300 machines to Steam users for testing purposes.

Want to be one of the lucky 300? Well you'll have to go on the Eligibility Quest which includes signing up for the hardware beta, making at least 10 Steam friends, and play a game using a gamepad in Big Picture mode.

The list will be locked on October 25th so if you want a chance to participate you have to sign up before then over at store.steampowered.com. The prototypes will ship out this year, with machines available for purchase sometime next year. Valve stressed that if you like your current PC rig, then no worries, you'll still be able to get SteamOS for it. But there will be a variety of sizes, prices, and other options available for the new Steam Machines next year.

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