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Valve: Steam’d Penguins

Valve: Steam’d Penguins

Posted Jul 18, 2012 10:14 UTC (Wed) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375)
In reply to: Valve: Steam’d Penguins by andreasb
Parent article: Valve: Steam’d Penguins

> ...And just maybe a preparation for a rumored Valve/Steam console.
No OS licensing fees, lowering their costs to build a device supported by a free-to-play/pay-for-accessories model - this is the important part. In their shoes I'd consider including an Android userspace for movies and music, to save Steam over-reaching themselves.

>The final burning question is: Will Team Fortress 2 be ported? And will Linux gamers get Linux themed hats? Because that's what it's really all about.
If Left 4 Dead 2 is coming, then the Source engine is coming over, so the free-to-play Hat Simulator will be ported, too. I would expect some joke about Red Hats and Fedoras in there - but the Ubuntu platform doesn't have a link to hat-wearing. Space helmet?

K3n.


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Valve: Steam’d Penguins

Posted Jul 18, 2012 13:24 UTC (Wed) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link]

No OS licensing fees...
And if it is successful, Microsoft, Sony, Apple, and Nintendo will probably sue them using some dumb patents as a pretext to shut down competition.

Valve: Steam’d Penguins

Posted Jul 18, 2012 23:36 UTC (Wed) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link]

Yeah, because that could never happen if it weren't Free Software.

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