Not to be confused with Steem, Steam is a game distribution platform that accounts for something around 85% of all PC gaming. It is run by the company Valve who made Half Life, Team Fortress, and CounterStrike.
A few years ago they made a product called Steam Link that allows you to purchase a cheap ($49) hardware box to connect to your TV and use your PC Gaming library from Steam directly on your TV. It would stream the game from your desktop PC to your Steam Link.
Recently Valve discontinued the Steam Link and the product is no longer in production. Interestingly though, they opened the Steam Link software so you can download it and run it on a Raspberry Pi for free. While I have an nVidia Shield that does this even better (has 4K streaming and is not limited to Steam games) this is really cool.
It looks pretty easy to do if you are a gaming it is something you might want to give a try. You will need a Steam or Xbox controller(s).
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That’s pretty cool! I might have to download it and give it a try. I have a few Total War and Paradox games out on the Steam Platform. Don’t play much anymore, but I could crank them up again.
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"..use your PC Gaming library from Steam directly on your PC.", maybe you mean "TV"
Steam-ception is cool too. Use your PC games on your PC thanks to steamlink :)
LOL, yes TV haha
I got a steam link for 10€, so this is going to be interesting:)
Recently they had it for $1
Yes, but shipping to far away Europa land, makes it 10€ in the end:)
Hmm. Thinking of it, it came from Netherlands!
Do they still make the Steam Machine or was that short lived as well? This looks like it could be a really cool alternative use for a Raspberry Pi though!
I think they still sell them, but it's not very popular.
If I'm not mistaken, they discontinued them.
I saw them available on the site. Maybe just selling what’s left.
Yea, just read an article that said they they are running low and they don't plan on restocking.
Gotta give this a try for sure. Got a pi. Though, got no gaming PC so thats gonna need to be the first purchase.
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Pretty cool. I think a lot of people didn't see a huge benefit in this when it first came out. Others probably didn't even know it existed. To most it wouldn't even matter, as they don't have a gaming rig. Them opening it up maybe means it will become more common. People into the idea can build a central gaming and media server and just have small devices for each TV. Maybe there aren't a ton that will do this, but it is kinda cool when you think about it. Maybe I'll do it myself if I ever end up setting up a crypto miner.
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