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Valve Hiring Hardware Developers
New submitter Canazza writes
"According to Develop, 'PC games giant Valve wants to "invent whole new gaming experiences" and is looking for people to help create new hardware, the Washington studio has confirmed. Off the back of a wave of speculation that the studio is building its own games console – a rumour which Valve has not specifically denied – the company now appears to be increasing capacity of its hardware development division.' Is Valve designing a new console? Or is this an expansion of its biometric controls research? Either way, something big is going down at Valve."
To be fair, the Linux rumors thus far are just an ad revenue scheme by that douche bag Michael Larabel.
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There is no Linux version! And you know why?
Yes, yes I do. Because in order for a linux version to be worth the time to code, you'd need a decent library of games that actually run on linux.
Not to mention there's several different operating systems that fall under the brand of "linux".
It's a coding nightmare, and most companies don't want to take such a massive amount of time for a minority.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
Oh dear lord, they're trying to re-animate Jobs.
"Either way, something big is going down at Valve." and survey says its still most likely not Half Life Episode 3 or Half Life 3. thanks gaben, making sure to give gamers what we really want. a far off possibility of another console full of 90% shovelware to get a few good games a year that are cross platform releases anyways. maybe you'll make a new half life then.
Shh dont tell him about the mac or ps3 versions...
To be fair, there are a fair number of completely cross-platform games on Steam now (Humble Bundle has been giving out Steam keys for each bundle since I think HB2). The GP is obviously batshit, but it could probably be done at this point. It's just probably not worth it to Valve.
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*suddenly gets a vision of Jobs shambling about with a headcrab attached to his skull*
There's no Linux version because linux types are the types to reject DRM, which is what Steam is. I buy games from GOG and I like it. On the other hand, I also have a game console, which has plenty of DRM. However, it has resale value, however small. If the next generation prevents resale somehow then I won't be buying it at all.
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Portal gun. That's all.
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Ben Krasnow (Youtube videos) has done some insanely cool DIY projects, like an electron microscope, LED-in-contact-lens, and aerogel. No idea what he's working on at valve, but it's got to be interesting...
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I think this is a response to the underwhelming hardware Sony and Microsoft are rumored to be planning on releasing. If those companies' greedy executives get their way, we'll end up with a "next-generation" of consoles in 2013 with underpowered 2010 hardware, which they'll sell at a hefty hardware margin. They're probably also unwilling to allow Steam to operate on their consoles, so rather than be locked out Valve is going to go forward on its own.
GLADos as the home console?
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