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Ben Heck’s Steam box will soon be a legitimate Steam Box. The avid PC gamer can build his Steam Box, the console gamer will be able to buy a Steam Box, everyone can have a Steam Box! That’s all in the near future – hopefully not in Valve Time – with the announcement of SteamOS, a free Linux-based operating system “designed for the TV and the living room.”
According to the teaser page, Valve has progressed far enough with SteamOS Valve to have “achieved significant performance increases in graphics processing”, and now they’re working on “audio performance and reductions in input latency at the operating system level.” Valve also claims that developers are already working with the standalone operating system, with “hundreds of great games” already running natively on SteamOS. In the event that your favorite game doesn’t have a SteamOS version, Valve says you’ll be able to stream a game from a PC or Mac running the Steam client to the machine running SteamOS.
Valve also said that they’re working with media providers to tie in to Steam and SteamOS. Add in Big Picture mode, cloud syncing and the propensity of Steam to drop prices like it’s hot and you could have an all-conquering entertainment machine.
Can Valve finally bring about the rise of the PC-console hybrid? A machine with the idiotproof user interface of a console, but with the futureproof software and hardware options of the PC? Is Valve saving Half-Life 3 for the SteamOS? The bastards?
Video game consoles – those have been playing nanny to your kids all summer long for as long as one can remember. Of course, the Atari 2600 has been a reference point for many of us older folk, before we “graduated” to the likes of the NES, and that was before the 16-bit revolution turned the world upside down with its snazzy graphics (and of course, the gameplay did go some way in helping keep us glued in front of the TV screen). Fast forward to this day and age, where Full HD graphics are considered to be compulsory if a game were to “make it”, so to speak. We also know that two highly anticipated consoles will roll out in the US before the year is over – the Xbox One from Microsoft, and the PS4 from Sony. What happens when you have an inkling for a blast from the past? This is where Hyperkin’s RetroN 5 console comes in, where it has been tagged with a December 10, 2013 official release date.
The RetroN 5 will certainly love to accept the entire collection of old school game cartridges, since it will be compatible with the following old school consoles – NES, SNES, Genesis and GBA cartridges. I guess it is time to break open that box in the attic, blow the dust off, and then start giving it a go to roll back those years with your first memory of Mario Kart racing, or the incorporation of Mode 7 on SNES titles. The RetroN 5 will be released in the US as well as Europe, where it will retail for $99.99 Stateside, while our friends living across the pond will have to pay €89.99.
Since the RetroN 5 was showcased at E3 earlier this year, some key modifications were made to the console, where the shell design would pave the way for better ventilation so that its innards remain nice and cool for a longer time, not to mention making concessions to use the Sega Power Base Converter so that owners of the RetroN 5 are able to enjoy Master System cartridges as well. The RetroN 5 is capable of bypassing any irritating region locks, so go ahead and game away! All purchases will arrive with an AC adapter that is accompanied by a quartet of head sockets to have it fit multiple regions, where the voltage will range from 110 to 240 volts.
Press Release
[ Hyperkin’s RetroN 5 console slated for December 10 release copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
We’re still a couple of months away from the launch of the Xbox One, but if you’ve already cleared out a welcoming cubbyhole in anticipation, then we hope you’ve pictured the next-gen console lying down. Speaking with GameSpot at the Tokyo Game Show, top Xbox bod Albert Panello said the One doesn’t “support vertical orientation,” or: you shouldn’t stand it up. Panello explains the console’s slot-loading drive simply wasn’t designed for operating in that position, and if you’re a rebellious type that laughs at the threat of busted hardware, you’ll be ignoring official advice “at your own risk.”
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Source: GameSpot
Those of us who grew up on a steady diet of video games from the 8-bit as well as 16-bit era would be able to remember how our imagination played a far larger role in making the digital world come alive. Sure, the graphics back then were blocky and at times, choppy, but those were the defining moments in your life that got you hooked to video games, so much so that you have “progressed” to the PS4 and Xbox One later this November. Well, here is the RetroN 5 console that will offer you a chance to enjoy a blast from the past, where it will play ’80s and ’90s Sega and Nintendo cartridge format games.
Hyperkin will roll out the RetroN 5 this coming December 10th, in both the US as well as the European Union. The RetroN 5 will arrive with five cartridge slots so that you can plug in your original NES, SNES, Genesis, Famicom, Game Boy Advance, Super Famicom, Mega Drive, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy cartridges. The chipset underneath the hood will do away with pesky region locks, while increasing the level of compatibility, in addition to handling both PAL and NTSC cartridges. The asking price for the RetroN 5 stands at $100 in the US and €89.99 in Europe. [Press Release]
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