Valve's Steam & Games Coming To Linux

[Daniel]

Valve's Steam and Source Engine-based games are coming to Linux. Michael from well known site Phoronix.com has been invited to Valve's office and was able to spend a day with the developers and Gabe Newell himself. He is confirming the rumors about Linux ports from Valve, and has been able to play the games and work the developers himself. Attached in the article are pictures from Valve's offices with games running on Linux.

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Daniel Reviewed by Daniel on 25th Apr 2012. Valve's Steam & Games Coming To Linux Valve's Steam and Source Engine-based games are coming to Linux. Michael from well known site Phoronix.com has been invited to Valve's office and was able to spend a day with the developers and Gabe Newell himself. He is confirming the rumors about Linux ports from Valve, and has been able to play the games and work the developers himself. Attached in the article are pictures from Valve's offices with games running on Linux. Rating: 5

[jayfella]

Been keeping an eye on this for a few weeks. Microsoft must be shitting themselves, because if valve start putting some serious effort in, the graphics card companies will pay attention and boom. Windows suddenly loses a lot of its "need"...

I could definitely give nix a good go if the games are ported.

[Daniel]

Unfortunately, even if every Steam user switched entirely to Linux it would still only have a few percentage points of market share. Linux users waaaay overestimate how much of an impact ths will have. Especially when the Windows version will have 1000+ more games to choose from.

[GeeZus]

Also i've heard Steam are wanting to make their own Game console, so if both happen i'm going to be a happy chappy

[jayfella]

the point is that if graphics card manufacturers start paying attention, there's no reason why all games cant be ported. OpenGL is perfectly fine, as opposed to Microsoft's DirectX.

[hover]

This is a significant step to making linux gaming viable, which is one of the reasons many people avoid linux as a platform.

[ShareShiz]

Very interesting. I wouldnt see this as a loss for MS though. I see this as a gain for Steam

[JGM]

Making Steam available to Linux users would be a massive leap forwards for Steam since it would open up many big name games to a whole new market of people.

JGM.