![]() Individual game progress can be saved to the Steam Cloud. For families who want to game together, there will be Family Sharing so you can take turns playing each other's games while earning your own Steam achievements. If we had to guess, this would consist of a user account and password setup. Valve left out a bit of detail, but it says parents will be able to control who sees what in the game library with SteamOS. Children use the television too, and Valve says it understands this. Valve hasn't come out and said which media services will be available through its software, but it did say: "Soon we will begin bringing them online, allowing you to access your favourite music and video with Steam and SteamOS." Jumping on the media services bandwagon as most modern devices have, SteamOS will include access to music, TV and movies. An existing computer will run Steam like gamers always have, and then a SteamOS machine will stream games over a home network to the TV. The first is In-home Streaming, which will enable gamers to play all of their Windows and Mac games (over 3,000) straight to their machine running SteamOS. So, what's a free OS if it can't do anything? Well, if Valve's promises are to be believed, SteamOS will pack some sweet features. Valve has not yet detailed what the hardware specifics will be for machines to run SteamOS, but the company will make it a freely licensable operating system for manufacturers (think Android in this regard). SteamOS will be available to download for a bevy of machines. The beauty of SteamOS is that it's free, and you won't need Valve hardware to install it. ![]() The development team at Valve has built on top with what it believes is best for the ultimate gaming OS. The company says it is an operating system built around Steam itself, using Linux as its architecture. The first announcement from Valve was SteamOS. Here we're scouring all the news to bring you the facts, the rumours and everything you need to know about Valve's plans in the living room. And now, Steam OS comes to users for testing on Friday, 13 December. The Washington-based company unveiled SteamOS, the Steam Machines platform and Steam Controller. Late September was full of Valve's announcements for the Steam living-room plans, coming in three phases. ![]()
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