Ciò che la Valve ha appena fatto potrebbe rivoluzionare per sempre la scena del Game su Linux
Già disponibili nativamente nello store della Valve:
Unreal Tournament 2004, World of Goo, e titoli da id Software quali Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Doom 3
Potranno arrivare a breve titoli gettonatissimi quali:
Unreal Tournament 3, Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Team Fortress 2, ed anche novità quali Portal II
Solo il tempo potrà tuttavia confermare se i Linux vendors riusciranno a capitalizzare pienamente questa grande opportunità che ha il pieno potenziale di espandere grandemente la comunita Desktop su Linux
It's Official: Valve Releasing Steam, Source Engine For Linux
What Valve has just done should prove to forever revolutionize the Linux gaming scene.
Some screenshots, here:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... &px=ODIwNQ
Source:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... ment&num=1
bye,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 Client of Linux support and subsequently found more Linux references and even the unreleased Steam Linux client. The day has finally come and Linux gamers around the world have a reason to rejoice, as this is the biggest news for the Linux gaming community that sees very few tier-one titles.
Those enthusiasts within the Phoronix community even managed to get the unreleased Steam Linux client running up to a partially drawn UI and other modifications, but now that work can stop as Valve is preparing to officially release the Steam Linux client from where they will start to offer Linux
native games available for sale. For all those doubting our reports that Source/Steam would be coming to Linux, you can find confirmation in the UK's Telegraph and other news sites. An announcement from Valve itself is imminent.
Found already within the Steam store are Linux-native games like Unreal Tournament 2004, World of Goo, and titles from id Software such as Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Doom 3. Now that the Source Engine is officially supported on Linux, some Source-based games will be coming over too. Will we finally see Unreal Tournament 3 surface on Linux too? Only time will tell, but it is something we speculated back in 2008. Postal III is also being released this year atop the Source Engine and it will be offering up a native client. We have confirmed that Valve's latest and popular titles like Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Team Fortress 2 are among the first of the Steam Linux titles, similar to the Mac OS X support. The released Linux client should be available by the end of summer.
Similar to Valve's strategy with Mac OS X, it's expected that they too will be providing Linux game releases on the same day as Windows / Mac OS X for their new titles and that there will be first-rate support across all platforms. Portal II should mark the first of these efforts.
This is terrific news considering the last major tier-one game release with a native Linux client was Enemy Territory: Quake Wars back in 2007. There was also supposed to be Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux with claims of it still being worked on, but two years later that has yet to see the light of day, except now it could with the release of the Steam middleware. In the past few years there has just been less-known game releases like Shadowgrounds: Survivor via Linux Game Publishing (LGP) and then the community-spawned open-source games like Alien Arena 2009, Nexuiz, and Sauerbraten, but what Valve has just done should prove to forever revolutionize the Linux gaming scene.
NicCo