Valve's Gabe Newell Talks Linux Steam Client, Source Engine

[psycho_driver]

Isn't this official enough? http://www.sevendaycooldown.com/site/episode001/ (10:55). What you need?

"right now I'm, uh, hanging out, uh, with a group of people who are working on linux. You know, and, uh, I just lift up my desk on its wheels and move it into the elevator and take it down, and that's what I'm working on right now."

I need a press release from Valve stating "Steam and * are coming to linux! Projected release date of XX/XX/XX!" We knew they were working on it two years ago when all the BS started, but they obviously had no intentions of releasing it at that time, as Gabe made clear in an official statement in (I believe) August of 2010. I have no doubt that there is an internal linux steam client (I've seen it) and I don't doubt that they have L4D2 up and running in linux, what I do feel far less confident about is if it will ever materialize. There was a working UT3 client too, but we never saw it and never will. Same with the WoW client. Probably a dozen other high profile titles out there that had linux clients that we don't know about (wasn't there a rumor about a Crysis port?).

Seriously people, just go back two years and look at the steam articles on this site and the eventual official press release from Valve stating that they had no plans to release anything for linux. Before that you can look at the obscene amount of shilling being done for ATi GPUs by Michael when, at the time, they were a far inferior choice for linux compared to an nVidia card. I enjoy the hardware benchmarks on this site but all the other articles are tabloid quality.

[johnc]

I know we like to give Michael chit from time to time, but you've got to give it up... When the head of Valve wanted to get the word out, he asked Michael to come out to HQ to get the scoop. So yeah, he's the man.


My only concern from all this news is whether or not Valve is going to maintain relevance in the future. The impression I'm getting is that Apple and Microsoft are looking to push Valve and Steam out of the market altogether. And they could very well be successful at that task.

[psycho_driver]

I know we like to give Michael chit from time to time, but you've got to give it up... When the head of Valve wanted to get the word out, he asked Michael to come out to HQ to get the scoop. So yeah, he's the man.


My only concern from all this news is whether or not Valve is going to maintain relevance in the future. The impression I'm getting is that Apple and Microsoft are looking to push Valve and Steam out of the market altogether. And they could very well be successful at that task.

Valve is a large group of brilliant people. Plus they're capable of adapting and executing far more quickly than monolithic corporations such as M$ and Apple. I have a feeling they'll be okay regardless of what those two do in the pursuit of unbridled profit.

[Darxus]

How do I get in on that beta?

[Kivada]

I guess Michael will post more pictures and informations in the next posts/days. Why? Because he's not working for free and needs more visitors to make profit. What would you do if you have such a good scoop and a website? In my opinion it's legit.

No, that just makes him look more like a sleazy idiot. If you've got anything at all you don't milk it in every gaming related article for YEARS for ad hits.

Its the same reason I refuse to whitelist Phoronix, he has ample oppertunity to post actual news on this site and he doesn't, he'd rather go on and on about steam for Linux with no corroboration.

Larabel is a damn moron with no tact, remember the Gameolith article? A Linux Only game shop? Well even in their debut article he had to bring up Steam as if it's coming to Linux was going to happen the very next day and that all other Linux game shops would instantly be made irrelevant.

Then theres the fact he'll post about every minor update to Gnome or KDE but wont cover actual new games coming out for Linux.

Where are the articles about Where are the articles about games released THIS MONTH like:
Harvest Massive Encounter
Dark Legends
Snorms Episode 2
Minetest
Terasology
Shadowrun Returns
Delver
Flare
CraftStudio Game Maker
Nekro
The Banner Saga
Will Fight For Food
Ensign-1

Would those not have brought in far more page views and thus ad hits then droning on and on about Steam thats probably never going to come to the Linux desktop instead of only being available on a Valve made console?

Really, what makes more sense to talk about? Larabel's unsubstantiated rumors or ACTUAL NEWS?

[Max Spain]

This is the best news I've heard in a while. I've been waiting for something like this since 2006. Today is better than yesterday

[Qaridarium]

Shadowrun Returns
[...]
Nekro
The Banner Saga

these kickstarter projects are not "released" they are grasroot-fundet

i'm sure michael will write about this if the games are REALLY released-

[Kivada]

Isn't this official enough? http://www.sevendaycooldown.com/site/episode001/ (10:55). What you need?

After all the bullshit? An installer in my downloads folder. Till then nothing. And at this point, after Larabel has done everything to put me off to Steam On Linux I'll be buying from Gamolith and Desura instead of Steam for any title available on them and only use Steam for Valve own titles.

Fact: He didn't say anything about writing FOR LINUX, only that they had developers programming ON Linux.

Fact: Many game houses actually write their games ON Linux, but never release their games FOR Linux.

[bulletxt]

Valve: Thanks so much for considering the Linux world. I really don't have other words! Thanks!

My only concern is: will AMD finally be serious with their Linux proprietary drivers? But this is another story.

[entropy]

My only concern is: will AMD finally be serious with their Linux proprietary drivers? But this is another story.

And maybe a very promising one.