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About a fortnight ago, Valves CEO, Gabe Newell, took part in a Q&A in a high school in New Zealand. One of the answers that caught the attention of the games media concerned Valve and consoles. The particular query was about whether Steam would remain strictly a PC platform or whether it would be "putting any games on consoles". A fair enough question from the school student, but surprisingly it caused Newell to pause for thought, and after umming and erring, he obviously picked his words very ...

Valve is reportedly making a Switch-style console that could launch in 2021 Well, that was fast. Theories about a Steam-powered portable console began to circulate earlier today thanks to some curious ‘SteamPal’ listings on SteamDB, and now a robust report from Ars Technica suggests that Valve does, indeed, plan to build a standalone gaming machine similar in style to the Nintendo Switch. “Videogame and hardware studio Valve has been secretly building a Switch-like portable PC designed to...

About a fortnight ago, Valves CEO, Gabe Newell, took part in a Q&A in a high school in New Zealand. One of the answers that caught the attention of the games media concerned Valve and consoles. The particular query was about whether Steam would remain strictly a PC platform or whether it would be "putting any games on consoles". A fair enough question from the school student, but surprisingly it caused Newell to pause for thought, and after umming and erring, he obviously picked his words very ...

According to a recent Q&A, Valve CEO Gabe Newell hinted at Steam games possibly making their way to consoles, or even a new Steam console entirely.

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Its a completely separate program. watson is fed the answers from a different room 20 feet away from the set. it was weird because ken and i are great rivals but were friendly, too. it was almost like we were on the same team, team humans versus team machine. we were in between the commercial breaks always chatting about, wow, i cant believe watson got that. i expect he would have missed something like that. it was a strange experience. >> finals tonight. well all be watching. brad, good to talk...