Thursday, October 3, 2013

SteamOS, the launch of a new operating system

Valve has done a lot of testing with its new feature Big Picture in its software platform, where the user can interact more easily with Steam interface using just the controller. This feature is designed to run on big screens or big TVs. From my point it had a lot of success since you can turn your PC or Laptop into a game console.


Compared to recent news, Big Picture is old news because Valve has announced that is going to release an OS called SteamOS. This combines the power of Linux and the Steam platform with Big Picture to bring the best gaming experience on every PC or Laptop.

Specially designed for TVs this operating system will soon be free for download. It can stream games from any machine in your network to your TV. SteamOS will also support media files.


Because of the design of running in you leaving room SteamOS features Family Sharing and Family Options where you will have the possibility to partition so you can manage your own achievements, settings, game progress  and what games to see in your library, all of this will be saved to Steam cloud. Valve will bring to Steam all its 3000 games also desktop software using the streaming feature.

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