Showing headlines posted by SteamForLinux

Gabe Newell, co-founder and CEO of Valve, was recently interviewed by the former head of Microsoft Game Studio at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle. In this interview Gabe Newell told about the current priorities and future plans of the company.

Valve Software has launched a Linux blog where the Linux community should be informed about the development efforts and progress of Steam on Linux. In the first blog post, named Steam'd Penguins, the plans for the upcoming version of Steam for Linux have been presented.

Sam Lantinga "Slouken" - co-founder and former lead developer at Loki Software, founder of Simple DirectMedia Layer, longtime development and engineering leader at Blizzard, joins Valve. Sam Lantinga announced it on the mailing-list of SDL.org recently.

Another digital game platform GOG.com (former Good Old Games) is becoming increasingly popular. Although there have been very successful, mainly older, titles like Wing Commander or Carmageddon distributed on this game platform thus far (often bundled with DOSBox or ScummVM), today there are more newer AAA titles such as The Witcher 2 being included in the game catalog of GOG.com.

One of the best game engines Unity has been presented yesterday as a preview version. Now the new version of Unity supports Linux apart of Windows, Mac OS X, Android, Wii and other platforms. Furthermore, a new animation system, support for DirectX 11 and Adobe Flash have been added to the game engine.

The following presentation video of Ryan 'Icculus' Gordon's talk is a must for those, who are interested in the modern game development, want to learn more about the technology behind it, or even going to port or develop a game to Linux. In his talk at the conference Flouish 2012 in Chicago Icculus presented some of the leading open source technologies that are used for the development of modern games like Crysis or World of Warcraft, and which he has used porting games to Linux and Mac OS X. Among other things, he talks about SDL, OpenAL, SQLite, LUA and many others.

Today is the last day of the crowdfunding campaign Carmageddon: Reincarnation on KickStarter. Although there are still a few hours until completion of the project financing and the goal of $600k set for the Linux and Mac versions of the game has not been reached yet, the indi games studio Stainless Games has confirmed the release of the Linux version today.

On Thursday a new <a href=https://www.humblebundle.com/ >Humble Indie Bundle presenting 5 new great games for Linux</a> was released. Now, not even 2 days after the start of the sales, a new record of over 2.4 million dollars was set up.

Recently Electronic Arts published a press release about its new program with benefits for the development studios funding games with the help of crowdfunding platforms such as KickStarter.

While other big publishers, such as Blizzard and Ubisoft, ignore Linux as a gaming platform, Electronic Arts pushes its first Linux games into Ubuntu Software Center.

In this phenomenal times for Linux Gaming there are even more great things to come for Linux soon. As some of you know, Ubuntu Developer Summit is going to take place in California on 7–11 May this year.

It's time again - a new version of <a href=www.Ubuntu.com>Ubuntu</a> with the support for the next 5 years has been released. What offers the new version to the Linux gamers?

Michael Larabel, the founder of phoronix.com, has been invited to visit the Valve headquarters by its boss Gabe Newell. Yesterday, it was the day on which he was able to take a look inside the development progress of Steam for Linux.

Although the Linux gamers are experiencing an impressing time today, even better times are waiting for them in the near future. While Steam for Linux is being developed by Valve at the moment, more Linux games than ever before are being published nowadays.

While Steam for Linux is currently being developed, Linux users can already today use the digital game distribution service Desura. Desura is very similar to Steam and offers a very extensive collection of games for Linux.

Although Steam for Linux is currently in development, many of us would love to play games out of the Steam catalog on Linux today.

A few days ago I sent an e-mail to the CEO of Valve - Gabe Newell - in which I showed our wish for Steam for Linux and I have also asked him about the release date of Steam for Linux.

At this year's Game Developers Conference Sixense Entertainment has announced a new motion-sensing game controller Razer Hydra for the PC. This controller is similar to the other motion controllers such as Wii, Move or Kinect, but unlike these it promises a much better precision through the use of magnetic fields...

With this name, shortly after the announcement of Steam for Mac, a new Steam group with a request to Valve to release Steam for Linux was established.

With this community, we are asking Valve to release Steam for Linux finally. But what about Valve itself? What do they think about the Steam client for the Linux desktop? For several years now there has been much speculation about Steam for Linux...