Valve announced few days back that Steam for Linux beta testing will start in October. Since then, many new Linux games have been added to Steam database, including Team Fortress 2.
Now official Steam for Linux community group has been launched, indicating that Steam Linux Beta release is imminent.
Steam for Linux is a certainty, but a list of official supported games still hasn’t been made available. Even so, gamers always found a way of getting this kind of information ahead of time, and this situation is no different.Steam is the client for Valve’s digital distribution platform and so far it was only available for the ... (read more)
Steam for Linux is entering the final stages before the official launch and Valve has just opened the Beta program for everyone. Valve has finally managed to release Steam for Linux Beta to the public and not a moment too soon. We have it on good authority the Steam Winter Sale will also begin today. Linux users will thus get a chance t... (read more)
Gaming on Linux is getting more interesting by the day. Valve has updated its Steam December Survey to include Linux statistics. This is Valve’s first month with Linux and even though the Steam for Linux system is still in a beta stage, Linux users already account for 0.8% of total Steam users.
Back in July, Valve started a blog and gave exciting news of Steam being ported over to Linux. This involved porting of Valve’s Steam client and some game titles over to Ubuntu Linux. On making the port, it was seen that Left4Dead 2 runs faster on Linux at a higher FPS, than on Windows.
When Valve announced to the world that the Steam Linux client for its digital distribution service was in the works, everybody rejoiced. But what can we realistically expect from a Linux client launched so late in the game?
There is no doubt that Steam is by far the largest digital distribution platform for games, so it must stand to reason that L... (read more)
Steam for Linux, the digital distribution platform developed by Valve, has just received an important update and gets a little closer to a stable release.Steam for Linux is still in the Beta stage of development and Valve is making a lot of changes to the client.
Steam for Linux, the digital distribution platform developed by Valve, has just received an important update and gets a little closer to a stable release. Steam for Linux is still in the Beta stage of development and Valve is making a lot of changes to the client. The previous release of the client was just a few day... (read more)
The Beta version of Steam for Linux was announced last evening, November 6, by Valve, only for the Ubuntu operating system.
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