Proprio in queste ore Examiner ha diffuso una notizia interessante: è di qualche giorno fa infatti la novità secondo cui Steam e il (a ragione) tanto decantato Source Engine godranno di un port nativo per Linux; a quanto pare sarà proprio Canonical, l’azienda dietro Ubuntu, a lavorare gomito a gomito con Valve per il port.
Lo scopo è assicurarsi una partnership che faccia si che Steam (nonc
Valve Software has a presence at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show, during which founder Gabe Newell gave an extensive interview to The Verge about Steam, Steam Box (the term being given to Valve’s living room PC project), and more. Money quote: So are most of these going to be Linux-based Steam Boxes? We’ll come [...]
Per tutti i videogicatori del pinguino in attesa del rilascio di Steam per Linux, c’è ancora da attendere, infatti dal blog di Valve dedicato allo sviluppo di Steam per Linux arriva un post nella quale si annuncia il rilascio della Beta 1 ad ottobre che sarà aperta inizialmente solo a 1000 beta tester.
Dopo un breve periodo la beta sarà resa disponibile per tutti, in particolare è stato gar
In questo periodo in California si stanno tenendo i Video Game Awards, un evento dove si presentano tutte le novità del mondo videoludico che usciranno nel prossimo anno: in questo meeting ovviamente non poteva mancare Valve che è stata rappresentata da Gabe Newell, uno dei co-fondatori della casa videoludica.
’nuff said: A blog by the Valve Linux Team: Steam’d Penguins: For some time, Gabe has been interested in the possibility of moving Steam and the Source game engine to Linux. At the time, the company was already using Linux by supporting Linux-based servers for Source-based games and also by maintaining several internal servers (running [...]
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.
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...
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.
Steam Box is a concept console from Valve and, according to Gabe Newell, it will be Linux-based, although it's not going be limited only to the open source solution. A lot of rumors have circulated before and during CES 2013 about a possible Steam console, including one about an interesting mini PC called Xi3. As it turns out, the... (read more)