Steam Box
http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/7/3849284 ... am-box-xi3
The prospect of owning a modular gaming console sounds fairly appealing. Still sounds like they have a lot of work to do. The move to a linux based system isn't really all the surprising considering Gabe's disdain for windows 8. Anyway something interesting enough to keep up with.
Also Nvidia's cloud gaming
http://phandroid.com/2013/01/08/hands-o ... 013-video/
Just wonder how much a service like that'll run. Full settings BF3 on a cell phone... supposedly lag free... when you are in the same building as the server at least.