Valve be in attendance at this year's CES festivities in Las Vegas, 'n while it be primary mission be t' meet with hardware partners like Xi3, founder Gabe Newell be still able t' find the time t' leak details about Valve's own illusive, as-a-yet still unannounced gaming hardware solution.

First 'n foremost be the fact that Valve's Steam Box will run Linux, regardless a what the company's various hardware partners install on their own machines. "We'll come out with our own 'n we'll sell it t' consumers by ourselves. That'll be a Linux box," Newell told The Verge. "If ye want t' install Windows ye can. we be not going t' make it hard. This be not some locked box by any stretch a the imagination."

Newell also revealed that Valve's Steam Box will be a networked gaming solution for an entire home, not just the living room. "The Steam Box will also be a server," Newell said. "Any PC can serve multiple monitors, so over time, the next-generation (post-Kepler) ye can have one GPU that be serving up eight simulateneous [sic] game calls. So ye could have one PC 'n eight televisions 'n eight controllers 'n everybody getting great performance out a it. we be used t' having one monitor, or two monitors - now we be saying lets expand that a little bit."

This all sounds very exciting, but let's not pillage ahead a ourselves. As we learned from Valve electrical engineer Ben Krasnow earlier today, Valve has "no current plans t' announce anything in 2013."