Valve the the company behind great games like Half-Life, Team Fortress 2, Left for Dead and Portal have announced it is bringing its Steam game client to the living room with the help of SteamOS. SteamOS is a open Linux based OS that has been designed to run the Steam Client (soon to be a free forever downloadable) . Some of the features include In-home streaming from your desktop over your network to the living room. Family sharing allows family members to playing each others games and earn achievements and save game progress. As well as family options so that each member will have there own Steam libraries. Valve also said they are working on bringing music and video apps we love to Steam OS.
As of this post their is a count down to 11AM CST on Steam's LivingRoom page.
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Spider-Man v Spiderman in a new story
pitting The superior against the (eternally) 2099 – who will be
victorious? Or more likely, how long before they stop fighting each
other and team up against a common enemy?
Previously on Superior Spider-Man: This
issue sets up a nice new storyline, but Doc. Ock is still in the
driving seat and the GPS is set to super-villain territory. The
Hobgoblin, having had his secret identity broadcast to the world
courtesy of our friendly neighbourhood super-hero, has been taken in
by a new gang of Green Goblins who have found a way to fly under the
spider-radar.
First things first: there are two
Spider-men on the front cover so naturally they are not going to meet
until the last shocking pages so stop getting your hopes up now and
lets enjoy the ride – a ride that starts with 2099 Spider-Man
fighting WWI fighter planes and a slightly bewildered looking T-Rex.
Well that's all I need to keep my interest and if I had a Marvel
drinking game I'm starting to think 'take a shot when Spider-Man
fights a T-Rex' would be part of it.
We soon find out that time has been
broken by the Age of Ultron storyline, and 2099's big bad, Tyler
Stone, seems to be the target of some sort of attack. Since
the Spider-Man of this time is his genetic offspring, he's going to
have to go back to 1985 (2013) and make sure his parents kiss at the
enchantment under the sea dance (people stop mucking with time).
Switch to 2013 and Peter Parker is playing softball.
I never did learn the difference
between softball and baseball, I would assume that the former uses
softer balls... I've had a baseball thrown at me, I fully endorse
this change.
It's an Otto Octavious moment here,
with a nice inner monolog that lets us know how much he
relishes in the fact that the
pot-bellied nerd he used to be is now a young athlete with his girl
watching from the stands. It's a wonderfully written scene that not
only gives a little insight into the character, but also seems to
resonate with the wish-fulfilment themes of superhero comics in
general.
The time-travelling intro goes mostly
ignored for most of the remaining pages– the villain of the piece
is introduced as ex-Horizon employee Tiberius Stone (any relation?)
who seems to be whistle-blowing
on Max Modell to the federal government. Time travel isn't the
only thing we're forgetting as Spider-Man looks to have throttled
back on his return to super-villain decent some with nary a foot
soldier or spider-bot to be seen in the whole issue. It's a 'new
storyline' change in pace, but while it is a little jarring it would
have been difficult to keep up the momentum without forcing a
conclusion of some sort before they're ready. While I wouldn't call
this the perfect jumping on point for Superior Spider-Man (we're only
17 issues in, I very much recommend going back to the start) it does
mean someone could start now and not feel completely out of their
depth.
It is worth noting that this is very
much a number one issue; Slott takes his time introducing the pieces
and getting them into their starting positions for the rest of the
run. The writing is excellent, as has been the case with most of
Superior Spider-Man to date, and the pace is perfectly timed to make
it feel like a lot more happens than actually does. The
exposition-heavy dialogue and thought bubbles at the start are
perhaps a little heavy handed, but it is necessary to get everyone
caught up.
The series in general has been very
good at not focussing on the action pieces, even letting background
characters have a little development, and that doesn't change here.
The bookend fight scenes are well done, but the development between
them is just as interesting. One head-scratching moment, though, was
a single frame appearance of Normie Osborn. This is a character I
hadn't heard of from my teen years with comics so I had to look up
what was happening with him these days and why he was a little...
littler than I was expecting. It turns out not much has happened
actually, so I'm curious where we're going with it.
The look for Superior Spiderman was
basically defined by Ryan Stegman's art and he returns here with
stunning results. The man even makes a group of people sat in a
basement feel dynamic so when either of the Spider-Men suit up for
action you know you're in for something special.
To conclude this is a fantastic read
that will keep you entertained for several reads as you pick up on
some of the more subtle points you may have missed the first time. I
doubt it would convert anyone who's against the very concept of Doc
Ock in a Peter Parker suit, but for anyone curious where this
universe's Spider-Man is right now, there are worse times to dip your
toe. I'm giving it five enthusiastic THWIPS before going off to read
issue 18.
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