Valve applies to make use of ‘Steam Frame’ as a trademark for a brand new console as hypothesis over a legendary next-gen Half-Life recreation continues

Remember Fremont, that supposed SteamOS system from Valve that popped up in Geekbench’s CPU results and according to some sources is a brand new console designed to connect with TV units and working AMD CPU and GPU {hardware}? Well, now Valve has trademarked “Steam Frame” a brand new model to be used with gaming consoles and peripherals.

The shizzle right here entails a few new commerce mark purposes by Valve centred on the time period “Steam Frame”, as spotted on Reddit yesterday. The more interesting and specific of the two says, “STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer game consoles for recreational game playing; video game consoles; video game accessories, namely, controllers for video games.”

That’s about as unambiguous because it will get. Of course, making use of for a commerce mark does not assure that commerce mark will get used. It may even be an intentional distraction designed to attract consideration away from another naming scheme or challenge.

But should you take it at face worth, there is a good probability Valve is certainly planning some type of console and it is going to be often called the Steam Frame. Is it the identical system as that Fremont field that turned up in Geekbench?

As we beforehand reported, Fremont was stated to run a de-featured model of AMD’s Hawk Point APU with the iGPU “removed” and AMD’s Radeon RX 7600 discrete GPU inserted. Supposedly, it is a TV centered console working SteamOS.

Then once more, perhaps “Steam Frame” would be the branding for the long awaited new Valve VR headset, codenamed Deckard. It’s been noted that SteamVR’s “overlays” feature is also being renamed to “frames”, supposedly to coincide with the Steam Frame. Then once more, there is no reference in any respect to VR or headsets in both of the trademark purposes.

Of course, should you needed to get actually speculative, you may counsel Valve may very well be planning to align the brand new console with the discharge of the long-rumoured subsequent Half-Life recreation, supposedly codenamed “HLX”, which some sources declare is nicely into its growth cycle and may very well be launched any day now.

No doubt, tying any new Half-Life recreation to the discharge of a brand new Valve console can be a compelling proposition with a very good probability of supercharging early gross sales. And Valve has kind in the case of proscribing releases to a minimum of sure system varieties, what with Half-Life: Alyx being a VR-only title.

According to some sources, that is all a part of Valve’s broader restructuring and push into {hardware}, that additionally contains the aforementioned Deckard VR system and the second technology Steam Deck.

For now, all of these particulars, together with a legendary Half-Life recreation stay hearsay at finest. All we all know for positive is that Valve needs to order the “Steam Frame” model to be used with a doable console. But it is nonetheless very arduous not get enthusiastic about what may very well be coming. Watch this area.