New Record for Steam

Steam PC platform has a new record that is worth bragging about. On December 1st there were 7 million users on at the same time, witch is an impressive number. This new record is 16% better then the old one from last year.

With all the hype from the new generation consoles that were released in the last few days, seems like every news on the web is about PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. New generation console wars have started but it looks like PC gaming is doing better then ever.

Valve recently announced that there Steam PC platform has over 65 million users. The preferred OS for Steam users is still Windows 7 with 64%, but Windows 8 is increasing it's share and is now on 20%.

during this weekend on Black Friday and Cyber Monday Valve had many discounts witch also helped to make this new record.

Valve Announced Steam Controller

On Monday Valve announced SteamOS and on Wednesday they announced Steam Machines and today they announced the final thing remaining the Steam Controller. It really wasn't hard to guess what was coming.

Official statement from Valve

Openness  

 The Steam Controller was designed from the ground up to be hackable. Just as the Steam Community and Workshop contributors currently deliver tremendous value via additions to software products on Steam, we believe that they will meaningfully contribute to the design of the Steam Controller. We plan to make tools available that will enable users to participate in all aspects of the experience, from industrial design to electrical engineering. We can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Steam Controller can be use by any device that is running a Steam client, that means you can use it on your Steam Machines and PC.

This was the third and final announcement from Valve, the end of so called Valve week. It still feels like they could of done this with just one event, but hey more pres time is more pres time. Will Valve succeed in their attempt of invading your living room, will see when the devices start selling early next year.

Valve Phase Two: Steam Machines

Valve has just announced Steam Machines. This is their second of the planed three events this week. If you don't remember on Monday they introduced their operating system SteamOS, and you guessed it Steam Machines will be running SteamOS.

However Valve will not be making these Steam machines themselves, they will be made by third party partners. There will be many different hardware developers that will be making different consoles. According to Valve this is the best way of making consoles because there is many different profiles of gamers.

Steam Machine will be in beta phase this year and Valve is offering 300 of them for free. If you are interested go on this link and maybe you will be among the lucky ones that get the free console. We can expect Steam Machines to hit the stores early next year.

The third and final Valve event is on Friday.

SteamOS from Valve

Valve is planing to announce three things during this week. First thing they announced was the operating system called SteamOS. This OS is based on Linux architecture. Basically it's free and can be used by anyone.
The new SteamOS want be just for games, Valve is planing to invade your living room. Well this is what is written on their site.

 In-home Streaming

 You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have – then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!

 Music, TV, Movies

 We’re working with many of the media services you know and love. Soon we will begin bringing them online, allowing you to access your favorite music and video with Steam and SteamOS.

 Family Sharing

 In the past, sharing Steam games with your family members was hard. Now you can share the games you love with the people you love. Family Sharing allows you to take turns playing one another’s games while earning your own Steam achievements and saving your individual game progress to the Steam cloud.

 Family Options

 The living-room is family territory. That’s great, but you don’t want to see your parents’ games in your library. Soon, families will have more control over what titles get seen by whom, and more features to allow everyone in the house to get the most out of their Steam libraries.



On the next event we expect they will introduce some hardware that's going to be running SteamOS.