Valve’s Second Announcement is for Steam Machines that Run SteamOS

<p>The second of the three announcements Valve is set to make this week has been made&comma; and it may come as no surprise at all that it&&num;8217&semi;s a bit of a hardware announcement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Entertainment is not a one-size-fits-all world&comma;&&num;8221&semi; reads the new <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;livingroom&sol;SteamMachines&sol;">Steam Machines page<&sol;a>&period; &&num;8220&semi;We want you to be able to choose the hardware that makes sense for you&comma; so we are working with multiple partners to bring a variety of Steam gaming machines to market during 2014&comma; all of them running <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;livingroom&sol;SteamOS&sol;">SteamOS<&sol;a>&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Valve is planning to make 300 of their prototypes and ship them to 300 lucky Steam users to test for themselves&period; All you have to do to to make yourself eligible is complete the <i>Eligibility Quest <&sol;i>on Steam&period; Steps detailing the Eligibility Quest and answers to any question you may have can be found towards the bottom of the page&period; Like&comma; when can you buy one of these Steam Machines&quest; 2014&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; with software and hardware announcements made&comma; what could possibly be in store for Friday&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;