{"id":35942,"date":"2012-04-13T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=35942"},"modified":"2012-04-13T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T10:26:48","slug":"valve-job-ad-puts-steam-box-is-back-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/35942-valve-job-ad-puts-steam-box-is-back-in-the-news","title":{"rendered":"Valve&#8217;s Steam Box is back in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that Valve console that was maybe a thing, then maybe wasn&#8217;t a thing, then everybody got distracted by Mass Effect 3 and forgot about it? It&#8217;s back.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For years, Valve has been all about writing software that provides great gameplay experiences. Now we\u2019re developing hardware to enhance those experiences, and you can be a key part of making that happen.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the introductory blurb on a Valve HQ job vacancy for an electronics engineer to &#8220;join our highly motivated team that&#8217;s doing hardware design, prototyping, testing, and production across a wide range of platforms,&#8221; and just so it&#8217;s perfectly clear, &#8220;We&#8217;re not talking about me-too mice and gamepads here &#8211; help us invent whole new gaming experiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the ad, the employee would &#8220;work with the hardware team to conceive, design, evaluate, and produce new types of input, output, and platform hardware&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Putting two and two together makes four, and Gabe Newell has four chins. It&#8217;s all adding up, people.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-04-13-valve-job-ad-adds-weight-to-steam-box-rumour\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Valve denies Steam Box rumours\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/33865-valve-denies-steam-box-rumours.html\">Valve denies Steam Box rumours<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Rumour control: More Steam Box details seeping out\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/33550-rumour-control-more-steam-box-details-seeping-out.html\">Rumour control: More Steam Box details seeping out<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Rumour control: Valve working on a console dubbed Steam Box\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/33505-rumour-control-valve-working-on-a-console-dubbed-steam-box.html\">Rumour control: Valve working on console dubbed Steam Box<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now hiring for &#8220;hardware design, prototyping, testing, and production&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":31079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[31,2562,697],"class_list":["post-35942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-steam-box","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}