Today, Linux gaming takes a huge step forward as Valve have now officially released the Steam Client for Linux and so it's available for everyone to try. Valve are also doing a big sale to celebrate, with 50-75% off select games.
Additionally, they have some interesting quotes to share:
“The introduction of Steam to Ubuntu demonstrates growing demand for open systems from gamers and game developers,” said David Pitkin, Director of Consumer Applications at Canonical. “We expect a growing number of game developers to include Ubuntu among their target platforms. We’re looking forward to seeing AAA games developed with Ubuntu in mind as part of a multi-platform day and date release on Steam.”
As well as this one:
“We’re huge fans of Linux. It’s like the indie OS–a perfect home for our indie game,” said Alen Ladavac, CTO of Croteam, creator of the Serious Sam franchise of games. “And who better to lead the charge into Linux gaming than Valve? With Steam distribution on Windows, Mac OS, and now Linux, plus the buy-once, play-anywhere promise of Steam Play, our games are available to everyone, regardless what type of computer they’re running. That’s huge.”
That's not all, the free to play game Team Fortress 2 is now officially available on Linux too!
See their official news post here. This is all very exciting, can't wait to play even more games.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
@Toby Half-Life and CS 1.6 also left the Beta Phase which is also worth noting
@Orkultus Steam Sales don't revolve around Individuals having Money or no Money :P. And if you can't pay the 2,72€ then there will be another Steam Sale soon.
Quoting: Toby HaynesThere seem to be a number of new releases too. 'Intrusion 2' and 'Puddle' I've not seen covered anywhere else yet.We actually mentioned Puddle previously.
Quoting: Are you kidding me?Nice, but there is no Steam for Linux there is only Steam for Ubuntu 12.04 i386Depends on what distro you are running. Ive had it running in Arch, Opensuse, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, and now running on Linux Mint 14 64bit. What distro are you using?
Quoting: OrkultusQuote from Are you kidding me?Nice, but there is no Steam for Linux there is only Steam for Ubuntu 12.04 i386
Depends on what distro you are running. Ive had it running in Arch, Opensuse, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, and now running on Linux Mint 14 64bit. What distro are you using?
Debian Sid x64 - for a big company like Valve it should work on any linux distro out-of-the-box. I mean even smaller companies(Opera, Desura to name few) can do it. I know you will get it running with many hacks and third-party packages but if you get in trouble on your Archbox they can still say something like: Sorry, but our game/Steam is offically only supported on ubuntu 12.04 blah blah blah...
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