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<title>Xi3 opens 'Steam Box' Piston game console up for pre-order</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/10/modular.gaming.pc.to.cost.minimum.900/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1357617924_xi3-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Hardware manufacturer Xi3 has opened up its online store to pre-orders for the Piston console. Shown at CES as an example of Valve software's Steam Box game console concept and the first to officially go on sale, the Piston is effectively an entire personal computer with modular components, housed in a compact case....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft executive: Valve Steam Box not competitor to Xbox</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/05/dismisses.valve.console.despite.company.doing.innovative.stuff/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/valvebigpicture.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Microsoft is not afraid of Valve's Steam Box game console concept, according to one executive. Don Mattrick, president of the interactive entertainment business of Microsoft, does not view Valve as a competitor to the Xbox platform yet when compared to other established gaming hardware companies, though does admit that the game developer is "doing some innovative stuff."...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/05/dismisses.valve.console.despite.company.doing.innovative.stuff/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Valve launches Steam Client on Ubuntu, discounts first games</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/14/linux.client.games.major.step.towards.steam.box/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/valvebigpicture.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Valve has launched its Steam game distribution platform on Linux, after a lengthy period of beta testing. Initially announced in July 2012, the internal project has now opened up the store on Ubuntu, with interested users being able to download the client through Canonical's Ubuntu Software Center at no charge....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/14/linux.client.games.major.step.towards.steam.box/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Report: Valve wracked with layoffs, 25 staffers let go [U] </title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/13/nearly.10.percent.of.the.company.may.have.been.laid.off/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1360797843_brokenvalve-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[(Updated with a statement from Gabe Newell) Following a tweet Tuesday confirming the firing of human interface engineer Jeri Ellsworth, Valve is apparently in the midst of larger staff cuts. Valve has indirectly confirmed reports of the departures, with the purge of eight staffers from the staff list website that were present as recently as a week ago. The firings include Valve's director of busin...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hardware manufacturer Xi3 and Valve show 'Steam Box'</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/01/07/ces.showcase.for.hardware.valve.heavy.investor.in.project/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1357617924_xi3-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[At least partially confirming the rumors from last year, game developer and digital distribution house Valve and hardware manufacturer Xi3 have teamed up to announce a de facto Steam Box. The hardware, codenamed "Piston," is being previewed at the Consumer Electronics Show in both Xi3's booth and the Valve presence at the Las Vegas show....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/01/07/ces.showcase.for.hardware.valve.heavy.investor.in.project/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Newell: Valve to release PC hardware for living room</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/09/steam.box.rumor.confirmed.in.awards.interview/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/valvebigpicture.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Valve Software is planning to release a PC package aimed towards living-room gaming. Though stopping short of a console, Gabe Newell confirmed the company's plans to release the previously-rumored "Steam Box" by next year, and follows the "stronger than expected" reaction to Steam's Big Picture mode by gamers....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/09/steam.box.rumor.confirmed.in.awards.interview/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Valve opens applications store on Steam online service</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/10/02/first.software.available.intended.for.game.production.and.design/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1349214043_steampowered-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Steam online store owner Valve Software has announced the availability of the first non-game software for purchase on the online venue. While the Steam game store is cross-platform and includes Macintosh OS X software, the current seven offerings are Windows only. During the first week of Steam Applications availability, all titles are ten percent off....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/10/02/first.software.available.intended.for.game.production.and.design/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Valve job posting suggests continued hardware development</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/04/possible.peripheral.planned.after.lack.of.meaningful.change/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/valve-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Valve has effectively confirmed the wish to build hardware on their website. A job posting for an "Industrial Designer" with six years of hardware product development experience has appeared on the company's corporate pages. This has added weight to the previous rumors of a Steam-based console, although the extent of the company's hardware vision is still not clear....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/04/possible.peripheral.planned.after.lack.of.meaningful.change/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Valve opens Steam Greenlight to indie-game submissions</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/02/crowd.sourced.scheme.sets.popular.items.onto.online.store/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1346638681_steamgreenlightthumb.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Valve Software has opened its crowd-sourced product release scheme. Steam Greenlight will allow game creators to list their titles on the service and allow users to vote for which they wish to see put onto the service in the future, effectively taking a significant amount of product vetting work off the Valve employees. Large game publishers will still be able to add their titles to the system tho...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 02:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive does Mac, PC launch</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/22/only.valves.second.simultaneous.mac.pc.release/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1345642150_ss_9d0735a5fbe523fd39f2c69c047019843c326cea.600x338.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Valve has released Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a long-awaited update to its multiplayer first-person shooter.  The game is available through Steam, and marks just the second time that Valve itself has done a simultaneous Mac/Windows launch through the service.  In the past couple of years Valve has turned more attention to Mac support for both first- and third-party releases, compensating fo...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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