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Tweet Valve has announced the Steam operating system, the first of three planned announcements scheduled for this week. The operating system is based on the Linux kernel and designed for living rooms. Read more…      Neowin

Tweet Valve has launched a teaser site for what it claims will be not one but three announcements it will make next week concerning its efforts to bring Steam to more big-screen TVs, perhaps via a Steam Box Read more…      Neowin

Tweet It’s been a long time coming for the Steam Box. The console concept, which was introduced by gaming company Valve and marries PC and console attributes to bring computer games to the living room, has been showing up on the demo floor of the past two Consumer Electronic Shows to the delight of gamers. But there hasn’t been any real sign from Valve that the company was anywhere close…

Tweet Valve co-founder Gabe Newell hinted to the the attendees of a Linux conference that the company will be making some announcements surrounding their Steam Box hardware device next week. Read more…      Neowin

Tweet The day has finally come for indie gamers to share digital copies of their beloved game libraries, as Valve has officially announced “Family Sharing” for gaming platform Steam – a free service that allows gamers to lend titles to friends and family through the cloud. Users are able to share games by creating “authorized computers” within the cloud. Right now, Steam assigns games to specific usernames — if a family…