This may just be the box that I go for. Looks nice and small without giving up too much muscle.

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This one looks better than the last one. Might be a game my dad would be into.

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This reminds me of the Battlestar game that was proposed for the Panasonic Jungle. It's a shame that handheld didn't take off. I was really excited for one back in the day.

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I enjoy a good fishing game, and it's fantastic to see this one coming to Linux. (Now if only we could get some decent basketball and football games!)

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There still seems to be a disconnect in peoples' minds about what the Steam machines are for. Nobody worries about the Xbox or PS4 being unable to play the biggest games in 3 years because they have a standard that developers make games for. PC games have no such standard right now, as hardware is always growing and changing. Steam machines are hoping to reconcile the different paradigms of console and PC, and that is a tall order.
Either Steam machines provide a standard that developers will aim for just like the other consoles or they will need to be upgraded/updated to keep up with PC games. Reviewers seem disappointed that they're playing a console that won't play top notch games at the highest settings a few years from now, but consoles aren't really meant for that.
Personally, I would like to have it both ways, and that can be accomplished as follows: Create a standard spec for Steam games that ALL machines can deal with and have developers make sure their games' low settings are compatible. The other settings can scale up into higher realms of eye-candy. At the same time, make sure that Steam machines are upgradeable and easy to work on so people can tinker to get the performance they want out of their machine. Even console gamers are familiar with memory cards, usb sticks, and expansion packs, so designing the machines to make gpu and ram switching as plug-and-play as possible would not be over their heads.
Steam machines are meant to bring PC games to the living room. In order to provide the comfort and convenience of playing on the couch, the polish and power of PC titles, the consistency of console titles, and the versatility of PC hardware, Valve should take care to preserve and/or establish the key factors of each of those facets. If they do, Steam machines will succeed.

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The quotes given are exactly why we should all build or buy a SteamOS box. Is it the best distro out there? Not at all! However, if that will be the measuring stick developers are watching to see if Linux is a viable platform, we should do our best to stand and be counted so they have a better metric of just how many Linux gamers there are. Developers have shied away from Linux because there is no standard to develop for, and SteamOS will be that standard for them. We just need to get behind it. Up to this point, the many different distros have also skewed the surveys and made it difficult for developers to get a head-count. If we all buy our games using SteamOS that should improve.

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Arkham Knight and Alien Isolation :D

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Awesome!

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As an AMD Linux user, I'm very happy to hear this news!

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Haven't played Starbound in a little while. I'll have to check it out again. (Last time I played I had explored the first planet in depth, going to the core below and building a HUGE tower up and up! Fun times. I also went all the way around the planet and found a temple on the far side. Interesting to explore.)

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