First! Episode 03: Audi, Steam Box, and Polygon's Chris Grant

It's hump day. The halfway point. The checkered flag is in sight. Time is absolutely a relative construct, because CES is less than three days old (at the most extreme estimate — technically the show floor only opened yesterday) and yet it feels like a lifetime has passed. It was a crazy first day on the floor, culminating with our sit-down with Valve's Gabe Newell over all things Steam Box — Chris Grant from Polygon will be on hand helping us pour over the Gospel according to Gaben. Join hosts Joshua Topolsky and Ross Miller as they break down the top stories of the day in the most relevant and irreverent way possible -- and set the tone for the day(s) to come. Wake up, tune in, and have fun. This is First!

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[illionarie]

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[Lazzam331]

11:00 Sam Byford Samsung also has the shrunken keyboard to one side ... Smh

[MacGuru15]

Audi, why must you tease us so with an A6 Avant?? I suppose it's for the Europeans at CES, though.

[xilefx]

I came for Audi...

[sonicblast2404]

IF YOU CAME FOR STEAM BOX INFO SKIP TO 20:00 thumbs up so ppl can see?

[abram730]

small, something like piston, an upgradable system.

Large "bigfoot" a home grid server that lets you use all of your devices(windows, android, ext..) for 8 player multiplayer with 8 each with different displays.

Bigfoot is social, like a lan party, but made for all devices.

See nvidia shield and grid.

This means a GTX 650 or better.

Is multi player different viewports or instanced using a virtual GPU?

[Lyserberg]

You don't like gaming on desktop ?

I hope you do realize that an HDMI output to your big TV is doable on PC, and Big Picture will allow you to take big advantage of that.

There is nothing wrong about our highly customisable gaming machines, and the Linux OS that will be running on the Steam box will only run a limited set of games, almost everybody will end up installing Windows 8 there to be able to play their only-DX catalogue games.

[Nathan Currin]

Sam, as others have commented, my Galaxy Note 2 has one-handed mode as well and yes, it was a great innovation that Samsung, not Huawei developed.

[waderedsox]

hes standing outside the trailer theyre filming the show in isnt he.......

[Nicolas Chan]

It was called Touchflow.

[bxsteez]

Sam was wrong about the Galaxy Note. They also have a one handed mode for the keyboard and dialer and for some strange reason the calculator too.

[DrewHales]

Desktop Gaming FTW