Valve’s Gabe Newell: Linux is ‘the future of gaming’ — possible Steam Box announcement ‘next week’

Gabe Newell believes that children are the future … wait, no — scratch that. He believes that Linux is the future of gaming. His stance regarding children and the future is still unknown.

Newell, managing director of gaming company Valve, spoke at the LinuxCon event in New Orleans today. During his speech he told the attendees that he expects the open-source operating system to play a bigger role in gaming, as reported by Ars Technica.