Where the Hell is Our Steam Box?

It's been over at year since the mythical gaming beast was announced, where is it?

Valve head Gabe Newell knows loose lips sinks hardware.

We were promised a Steam Box and we want it now!

Ever since rumors emerged in 2012 and Valve’s Gabe “big boss” Newell started talking about the revolution he wanted to bring to our living rooms we’ve been waiting for an update.

Defined as the Xi3’s Piston, then quickly redacted we were tricked into thinking it was finally here. In the lead-up to E3 Valve kept the Steam Box concept in the dark and chose not to exhibit at all, confusing the hell out of everyone.

Now Valve is showing up at Gamescon in Cologne is August, one of their subsections showing that they are developing PC hardware. What could that be? Valve has brought us several genre revolutions with their software and now could they bring us a revolution in living room gaming?

We run down the history of the white Unicorn called the Steam Box and sort through the veil to get an idea of what might be in store for the future of gaming.

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Steam announces development on Steam Box in 2012.

Steam launches its Big Picture Mode for TVs.

Xi3 Piston is unveiled with Valve as a partner.

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In January of 2013, Valve and the Salt Lake City-based Xi3 unveiled the Piston, a micro computer gaming platform that would sync with Valve’s Steam service and be plug-in-play ready for televisions. It was also revealed that Valve had, at least partially, funded the console-killing Piston.

Much touted as the single thing that could revolutionize home gaming; a completely customizable and scalable micro-pc that was plug-in-play ready and would offer the biggest starting line-up of games in history from Steam.

Valve backs away from the Piston.

Will Oculus Rift be supported by a Steam Box?

Valve dissavows Xi3 and the Piston.

The box goes cold, but Newell leaks some deets.

Gabe, stop blowing our minds, man.

NVIDIA Shield releases with some Steam support.

Valve to produce something at Gamescon.

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