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More Gorning VR, Some Lego is on the Horizon, and All The Balls x in that Pitt!– Geekoholics Anonymous Video Game Podcast 520

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  • Gorn 2 VR2
  • Lego Horizon Adventures
  • Broken Edge VR2
  • What the Bat? VR2
  • Pragmata (switch 2 demo)
  • Ball X Pitt

News: 

Cross Platform / PC / Misc

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  • Weekly Epic Games Store Freebies: Return to Ash (Visual Novel), Stalcraft: X Starter Edition (free to play, MMOFPS)

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  • Misfits Season 2 
  • 10 Things I Hate About You – Movie
  • Batman Begins 
  • Batman Dark Knight
  • Viture AR Glasses – Pro (older model) 
  • Wonderman Disney+
  • Wrecking Crew

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MIO: Memories in Orbit, the BF6 Conclusion and Overwatch 2…. is Overwatch? – Geekoholics Anonymous Video Game Podcast 519

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  • Overwatch
  • BF6 Single Player completed
  • MIO: Memories in Orbit

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Cross Platform / PC / Misc

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PSA’s:

  • Weekly Epic Games Store Freebies: Nobody wants to Die, The Darkside detective a fumble in the dark

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  • Gladiator 2
  • The Three Musketeers 1993
  • A Whole New Sound (Music Album)

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Pie.. In the Sky, Over a Battlefield 6 covered in Gorn – Geekoholics Anonymous Video Game Podcast 518

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No Hard Feelings
Kill bill vol 1
Devil May Cry Anime season 1
Rewatch Daredevil season 1 
Weapons

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Halloween Steam Sale on Now!

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Steam Logo

Ladies and gentlemen, get your wallets ready for another Steam sale! Steam is having it’s annual Halloween sale. Starting today and going until Nov 3, at 10 am, all your favorite spooky games are on sale.

Head over to Steampowered.com to get in on this great sale!

By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
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Valve Announces the Steam Controller

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SteamController

So today Valve finished off their Trilogy of announcements with the Steam Controller, a new Input device they have spent the last year working on.

They have designed it to be used with all current and future steam games, and in place of thumb stick they have added two, high resolution haptic trackpads, which are also click-able. This is definitely an interesting way of designing a controller, one in which Valve believes every game can be played on, even games like RTS games. They have essentially “tricked” the games into thinking you are playing with a mouse and keyboard and thus allows you to play any game on steam with this controller. They added a Diagram showing how this should work in Portal 2.

Steam controller_bindings

As you can see from the Diagram above, the middle area of the controller is also a touchscreen, which is also click-able, not unlike the PS4 controller.

Steam controller_schematic

Valve is also claiming that they have designed the controller to be “hackable” and are interested in how the community will utilize this controller. They plan to release tools out to the public to allow this to happen at an unspecified later date.  This controller will be part of the same Beta as the Steam Machine, in allowing the public to voice opinions and help mold where it goes, from software, all the way to design.

Steam controller_parts

No word on when these will ship out to beta testers. For more information on the Steam Controller, and to see about getting into the beta, you can go here; Steam.

By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
@DayneCody

Valve Announces Steam Machines

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Valve Steam Box concept

Valve, today, in the second announcement of three planned for this week, announced The Steam Box Machines. In an announcement where they really told us…. well not really anything. Other then to saying that they are working with partners to create various machines, and there will be a beta test, in which they are inviting 300 people from the public to test these machines, which if you are interested in doing so, you can go see the requirements for the “hardware beta test” Here.

We don’t have specs, we don’t have a drawing, we don’t get to see a prototype, really all they have told is “Entertainment is not a one-size-fits-all world. We want you to be able to choose the hardware that makes sense for you, so we are working with multiple partners to bring a variety of Steam gaming machines to market during 2014, all of them running SteamOS.” They have said that they would be shipping hardware in 2014, and that said hardware will be running SteamOS.

Oh and at the very bottom we get this little, possibly foreshadowing, morsel “Am I going to be using a mouse and a keyboard in the living-room? If you want. But Steam and SteamOS work well with gamepads, too. Stay tuned, though – we have some more to say very soon on the topic of input.”  Possibly tipping their hand at what Friday’s announcement will be? I guess we will have to wait till then and see.

They have stated that we will begin to see Steam Machines in early 2014.

You can check out the Steam Machines page Here.

By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
@DayneCody

Steam OS has been announced, coming soon to a living room near you

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Steam OS Logo

Today, Valve made the first announcement of three that they have scheduled for this week. Valve has announced the Steam OS, a Linux based Steam OS for the living room. In their own words:

As we’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we’ve come to the conclusion that the
environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself.
SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen.
It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.

In addition to a free open platform, they are also touting that due to being an integrated OS, they have “achieved significant performance increases in graphics processing, and we’re now targeting audio performance and reductions in input latency at the operating system level. ” As well, they are stating that Steam OS will integrate streaming your games from your desktop PC. They also stated that they are working on bringing the media services we love over to the platform in the coming months. No word on when Steam OS would be released, only that it would be released as a free download sometime in the near future.

This looks to be a way for Gabe Newell to show his love for Linux, and to try and build a better PC for the living room. We will be very interested in seeing where this goes in the future. Stay tuned for the next announcements that Valve is making later this week.

For more info on the Steam OS check it out here, Steam OS 

By Dayne “Anjel” Cody
@DayneCody