We announced last week that Valve would speak at Ubuntu Developer Summit, hopping they're going to make a big announcement. The announcement never came, but we got some pretty interesting information.
Drew Bliss, an engineer at Valve, has answered a few questions about the upcoming Steam Linux client. We all thought ... (read more)
Day of Defeat: Source has just been made available of Steam for Linux by Valve, but it's still in the beta stages.
Valve has promised to bring its entire catalog of games to Linux and they doing it one title at a time.
Valve's Deathmatch Classic, a multiplayer game developed 12 years ago on the Source engine, will arrive on Linux.When Valve said that they are going to port their catalog on Steam for Linux, user were thinking more in the lines of Half-Life 2.Deathmatch Classic, a multiplayer game developed by Valve as a tribute to Quake, that mimics its gameplay and style, will be launched on Steam for Linux, acc
After the release of the first Half-Life, it was only natural for Valve to announce Counter-Strike 1.6 on Steam for Linux. Who would have thought that Counter-Strike 1.6 would be in beta ever again or that it will be eventually launched on Linux? Nobody seemed to notice that the Half-Life engine is OpenGL capable and very few people actually believed that Valve's games could be ported.
After launching the original Half-Life and Counter-Strike on Steam for Linux, Valve has now started to push updates for the two games.
Both games are pretty stable, especially after so many updates over the years, but it seems that the version for the Linux platform will need some further improvements.
Here are some highlights for the new Half-Life update (it also applies to Counter-Strike):
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Valve has launched on Steam for Linux most of their games, but the important ones, like Left 4 Dead or Half-Life 2, haven’t made an appearance yet.Even if Valve’s fans are happy because they’re playing most of their favorite games, people have started to wonder why other titles, like the ones from the Left 4 Dead franchise, can’t be played.
Portal, an innovative single player game developed and published by Valve, will arrive on Steam for Linux, soon.Portal was first released back in 2007, along with Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2.
Half-Life 2 is the best game released by Valve, at least so far, and now it has been ported on Steam for Linux.The launch of Half-Life 2 was inevitable, but it had to happen sometime. Players will once again take the role of Gordan Freeman and will try to make their way into City 17.The other two titles in the series, Episode One and Episode 2, have been also released.
The Ubuntu Developer Summit in Denmark, Copenhagen, was one of the most exciting and interesting so far, mostly because Valve had participated almost as an honored guest.
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