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Half-Life and Counter-Strike 1.6 released on Mac and Linux; better late than...
It may have taken 15 years but both Half-Life and Counter-Strike 1.6 have been released for Mac and Linux users.While the clamour for their release may not have been deafening that quiet may be more...
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9 things we learned from Gabe Newell's DICE keynote
Last night, Valve’s co-founder and MD Gabe Newell took to the stage at the 2013 DICE summit to explain some of the thinking between Valve’s eye-catching announcements and initiatives. In a thirty...
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CS: Source is now available for Linux
You may remember that Valve released Half-Life for Linux and the Mac a few weeks back, including the classic version of Counter-Strike with it. Well, now Counter-Strike: Source is now available for...
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For Valentine's day say three little words: "Steam Linux Sale"
I’m not entirely sure if Valve are making a statement with their latest Steam sale: today of all days you can now buy cheap Linux games. Titles on offer include Defcon, FTL, Red Orchestra, Amnesia,...
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Steam update includes support for Linux; adds offline messaging
A new Steam client update has been released, that adds official support for Linux and some much needed improvements.Now you can send your friends messages while they’re offline, receiving them when...
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Four stupid mistakes I made when installing Linux to get a free Team Fortress...
Earlier this week I called Linux a dumb operating system for jerks because I'd had a bad time with Ubuntu, which in hindsight is like saying wheels are a terrible idea because you saw a car crash....
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Team Fortress 2 Linux performance improved in new update
You might have watched a grey, mercurial bar trickle along the bottom of your Steam client early this week, and not for the first time wondered what it was playing at. Well, that will have been TF2...
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New Team Fortress 2 update fixes VR woes and improves the Linux version
Everyone has been tinkering with virtual reality as more Oculus Rift developer kits arrive on people's doorsteps everyday. Their testing ground: Team Fortress 2. Valve are hot on the case with fixes...
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Left 4 Dead 2 Linux beta released; comes with extended mutation system
As part of Valve’s continuing efforts to port their back catalogue over to the open source operating system Linux, escaping the clutches of Microsoft, the developer today released the beta version of...
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Windows 8 growing on Steam, Linux barely moves
Despite the push Valve have been making the past year to bring gaming to Linux, the release of penguin-friendly games has done little to grow the Linux audience on Steam. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Windows...
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Left 4 Dead 2 Linux version primed for full Steam release, Extended Mutation...
Steam’s current Linux crop is a nice, burgeoning collection of PC ports, if a little indie-heavy. But it’s about to benefit from a bit of AAA heft in the form of Left 4 Dead 2, which Valve have finally...
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Valve's masterplan for Linux: the Steambox, Big Picture and the future of PC...
“What have we been doing?” Valve’s Gabe Newell asks the LinuxCon audience after praising the innovation the PC’s open platform fosters.Turns out Valve have a plan. They want the openness of the PC to...
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Nvidia extend olive branch to Linux developers
That’s Linus Torvalds up there - the ‘Linu’ in ‘Linux’ - swearing in the general direction of Nvidia. He last year labelled the GPU specialists the “single worst company” the Linux kernal has ever...
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DICE “strongly want to get into Linux”
Linux is getting an awful lot of love of late. Largely this has been from Valve, they created a Linux version of the Steam client, announced they’re working on an operating system, and that their Steam...
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Joe Danger shifts into Linux and Mac gears
If you want to put a big, beaming smile on that face of yours, you need to play Joe Danger. What did you say? You game exclusivley on a Linux machine now Steam started supporting the penguin-fronted...
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Valve sign up to the Linux Foundation
Valve, in its valiant effort to save the PC from the oppression of Windows, has joined the Linux Foundation. The non-profit group is dedicated to the development of Linux, allowing companies with...
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Save the penguins: GOG.com to start supporting Linux
In the last week, good old GOG.com have shown themselves capable of tossing out the bad things Steam does, like regional pricing plans; now, they’ve revealed they’re more than happy to adopt the good...
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System Shock 2 Linux port means soundtrack, radio interviews and more for...
Hands are often wrung in places where journalists congregate (courts, houses of ill repute, gaols) over whether news can ever truly be objective, or whether the becoming long brown coat of the reporter...
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Gabe will be pleased: SteamOS and Linux support comes to Unreal Engine 4
Since Epic and Crytek levelled the game engine playing field at GDC - each announcing subscription services to match that of cheeky young thing Unity - they’re now back to the usual business of...
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Beyond Windows: Civilization V has come to SteamOS and Linux
If Alienware’s Windows-based living room PC looked like a setback for Valve’s Steam Machine dream, then this news resembles the opposite.Stalwart Mac publishers Aspyr have branched out to Linux and...
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