Steam for Ubuntu has been finally announced by Valve on its official blog, giving rest to all the rumors that have been circulating in past few months.
In the blog post titled 'Steam'd Penguins', lots of details on their Linux plans were revealed. Valve is looking to strengthen the gaming scene on Linux, both for players and developers.
Valve Corporation has today rolled out their Steam Mac OS X client to the general public and confirmed something we have been reporting for two years: the Steam content delivery platform and Source Engine are coming to Linux. This news is coming days after we discovered proof in Steam's Mac OS X Cl...
The Valve Linux team announced last evening, July 16th, that they've selected the Ubuntu operating system to deploy their upcoming Steam client for Linux. The Linux team at Valve just created a few hours ago an official blog where they will publish everything there is to know about the Steam client for Linux, or more exactly Ubu... (read more)
As things continue to heat up on the open source gaming front, Valve is preparing for a beta test of the Linux version of its popular Steam service, which Valve has promised to deliver by the end of this year. Many Linux gamers are watching this closely, especially after the popularity of Steam for the Mac.
Phoronix: "Valve Corporation has today rolled out their Steam Mac OS X client to the general public and confirmed something we have been reporting for two years: the Steam content delivery platform and Source Engine are coming to Linux."
Valve, developers and publishers of games such as Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2, have just announced the launch of a limited access Beta for its new Steam for Linux client.The announcement for the official Steam for Linux client is not actually a surprise because Nvidia spilled the beans a few hours earlier, in an official commun... (read more)
At the GPU Technology Conference, Valve recently talked about their experience of porting Source Engine to Linux.
The slides from the session are now available, you can have a look at these slides from here.
According to Valve, both Linux and mobile gaming markets are growing rapidly and they are working on an Android port of Source engine.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun has posted the second part of a two-part interview with Notch of Minecraft fame; in this installment, he discusses Valve’s recently announced plans to add Linux support to both Steam and Source-engine games: I understand why Valve wants to do what it’s doing, too. But then they would be the de facto [...]
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero has been officially announced by Valve on Steam for Linux, making it the fifth little from their collection to reach the open source platform.
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero features an extensive Tour of Duty campaign, a near-limitless number of skirmish modes, updates and new content for Counter-Strike's multiplayer game play, not to mention over 12 bonus single-pl