So it's fair to say this has been a week of new beginnings, for both Valve and for ourselves. A clean slate for all those concerned, a metaphorical line drawn in the sand, a change of course to emerge anew.

Valve has now shown their hand in taking Steam to the living room, making three pretty huge announcements (and no, none of them are Half-Life 3). SteamOS is a new operating system dedicated to their game distribution service, available for any room machine. They're beginning a hardware beta program to compliment this also, and launching their own controller.

The times, they are-a changin' for Steam in 2014, which certainly makes the 'console wars' an interesting battle for this generation. Does the model of gaming change, or simply the hardware? Time will tell.

And now, as is now common knowledge, we overhauled New Rising Media on 22nd September to critical acclaim. Simple. Clean. Responsive. 

With this re-invention, we have the perfect website for what we do: a diverse media platform for covering what is new and undiscovered in many media forms. Check out the guide to find your way around, as this is a completely different NRM to what you've used before.

Missed any of our top stories? Not to worry, check out all of what we published over the last week down below.