The best part in this though if you already have a fast rig, you can buy a very cheap Steam box, which essentially just has enough horsepower to stream your content from your main rig to your TV instead of moving your current setup or running a large length of cable.

Q10: Is PISTON the Steam Box or not? A10: Xi3 has never described its PISTON Console (PC) as the Steam box or a Steam Box, especially since it appears that Steam Box is a term created by journalists and not by Valve. To be clear, however, PISTON Console owners will be able to access and play games on/through Steam…

+2 Shield of Irony. Roll Saving Throw vs. Peer Pressure to avoid appearing less cool than your adventuring companions.

Thank you for telling me what I think and how I feel. I never knew either of those things until just now.

And considering they raised roughly 4 times the amount they asked for, I'd say there's probably a market for catering to "fanboy crybabies."

As long as there is DLC, there will be suckers willing to waste their money on ridiculous DLC. And as long as there are suckers, game companies will find ways to take their money. There's nothing new here. No gamer worth his/her salt would dream of buying extra lives to finish a game. And there's no way any game…

I also love the part right before this, where Victor crashes the van while singing.

H. Jon Benjamin before I even knew who H. Jon Benjamin was. This movie keeps giving and giving.

Agreed. I remain cautiously optimistic.

If I was to build a second full gaming PC for my TV, I'd have to spend far more money than just buying or building a Steam box. That's the point of making the Steam Boxes open source and hackable. I can just make a cheap Steam box with a controller and stream all my games from my PC to my Steam box. And when I say…

Absolutely! Isn't it great?

I was thinking it was this guy:

Also, to actually contribute to your measured discussion...

You guys are making WAAAY too much sense for this comment thread. How dare you assume that Valve has a team of experienced developers who are listening to concerns from experts in the field and incorporating it into their controller design? Isn't it just easier to rant about some feature you just thought of and then…

PCs aren't heavy, but once you've got all your stuff settled in your game room or man cave or whatever, you don't want to have to move all that stuff out to the living room to play games on your TV. You can buy or build a cheaper Steam box that sits next to your TV, acts as a media player for Netflix and Hulu and all…

This is certainly a fair concern, but I have to think that the team developing the new controller must have considered this very thing at some point. Games like the Batman franchise and Assassin's Creed franchise are very popular and that style of control scheme is widespread. It would be a major oversight to not…

I don't know enough (or much at all) about the tech behind the haptic feedback feature, but I see a lot of concerned comments on here about the right trackpad substituting for the right analog stick, with no appropriate substitute for the ABXY buttons. Is it possible the right trackpad could be both simultaneously? As…

Ha! Yes, I'm spoiled by newer games. It still looks pretty damned good for its age; kind of like Susan Sarandon. Plus there's that Skywind mod I've yet to check out.

You can create a lineage. Or you can buy the old ones and play their ancestors! Morrowind is fantastic, although it REALLY shows its age at this point. Oblivion shows its age some too, but it's much more akin to Skyrim with its UI and skill trees, so you may enjoy that if you can get hold of a cheap copy.

Oh, it's fine, I could talk Skyrim all day. I mean I know I shouldn't, but I could.