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hey I'm a Travis Tina and we're here the game developer conference with valve checking out steam machines now you're probably familiar with Val they're one of the massive gaming companies and there is also for steam which is a game delivery platform now valve has been making a push into the living room space Kontos kind of ruled the roost there but PC gaming deserves to be then that's hopefully going to change this November when the steam machines are widely available now steamos is going to be the platform let the steam machines run the machines are technically pcs but they're running steam OS which makes bring the sort of content like experience to the PC platform now it's all revolves around this controller this is going to be the gamepad that the steam machines run and they sort of imitates a proper mouse and keyboard or a trackball experience or really whatever you'd like now it can be used to emulate your traditional mouse and keyboard or it can be used to operate sort of as a trackball or as a gaming pad and something you might be familiar with from the xbox one or the PlayStation 4 now the controls here can be mapped and altered you know configured anywhere you like and that's going to be helpful when you're playing some of these thousands of games available on Steam now see machines are going to come in all shapes and sizes you can expect machines from companies like talkin Northwest and alienware but the one I'm most interested in is the steam link now this fifty dollar box also available in November can actually connect to your home network and it will connect to your existing gaming PC and stream games from your actual gaming PC or a steam machine if you also like to own a state machine to your television that's gonna be super interesting for someone like me who builds an Opie season is constantly upgrading and always is going to want the best of the best but not necessarily wants to shell out for a new steam machine every couple of months you expect the steam link and all the other steam machines that are going to be available in stores starting around this November I'm Nate raza cnet thanks for watching you