Rumor: Apple Working on Game Console

<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;rumor-apple-working-game-console&sol;rumor-mill-4&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-11869"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11869" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;04&sol;06215256&sol;Rumor-Mill1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"242" height&equals;"107" &sol;><&sol;a>If rumors are to be believed&comma; Apple may be getting back into the console game market with a help from Valve&comma; according to the Cult of Mac website&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Apple-centric news site reports that Apple CEO&comma; Tim Cook&comma; visited the Bellevue&comma; Washington headquarters of Valve&period; According to the site&comma; Apple is preparing a TV set for release later this year that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;will come with an Apple-branded&comma; Kinect-like video game console&period;” According to reports&comma; the system will rely on motion and touch controls&comma; possibly through a touch screen remote that will come with the TV&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This follows rumors that Valve is working on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;valve-working-wearable-augmented-reality-computer&sol;">hardware<&sol;a> of their own&period; Valve posted a job listing for an electronics engineer to join its hardware team to create &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;whole new gaming experiences&period;” Valve also stated they are investigating the field of wearable computing augmented reality&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This would not be the first attempt by Apple to enter into the video game console market&period; Apple teamed with Bandai in 1995 to launch &OpenCurlyQuote;Pippin&comma;’ a multimedia console based on the Macintosh operating system that also allowed access to the internet&period; The system did not do so well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;news&sol;apple-game-console-rumored-for-2012-launch-6371858">Gamespot<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;