Linux Platform Option Appears on Steam Website
Linux platform has made its first appearance on Steam website. Few days back, Valve added a zombie Tux to Left4Dead 2 website announcing that it well head to Linux soon and now a Linux platform filter has been added to Steam Greenlight.
Steam Greenlight is a new initiative by Valve where community votes for games submitted by developers. If Valve finds that a game has generated lots of interest, then it gets included in Steam game library.
A Linux filter can mean couple of things. Valve is communicating to developers that they can submit their games if it supports Linux. Secondly, Valve is looking to build a good library of Linux games.
Steam Greenlight has already approved 10 games that will be soon included in official Steam game catalog. Out of these 10, at least 3 support Linux and around three other are using Source engine which will have Linux support soon.
Steam Greenlight has already approved 10 games that will be soon included in official Steam game catalog. Out of these 10, at least 3 support Linux and around three other are using Source engine which will have Linux support soon.
So slowly and steadily, everything is falling in place. Valve has already added a 'Steam Linux Beta' entry in its database.
Update: Official note from Steam employee Alden Kroll:
And finally, we've also added Linux as a target platform since Steam will soon be shipping a Linux client.
Update: Official note from Steam employee Alden Kroll:
And finally, we've also added Linux as a target platform since Steam will soon be shipping a Linux client.
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