Join the official « Linux Beta Access » group : http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/games/221410 , and leave this one as the steam for linux process is on going. Thanks for having supported this group. :)

Check out the Steam for Linux limited public beta survey : http://www.valvesoftware.com/linuxsurvey.php

Check out that article from Phoronix...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve_linux_dampfnudeln&num=1

That is not a fake, speculation or april fool etc... this time. ;)

You already know Humble Indie Bundle... Cross-platform, Pay what you want, Support charity and DRM free.

This time, we can get :
* Crayon Physics Deluxe (puzzle)
* Cogs (puzzle)
* Hammerfight (physics-based combat)
* VVVVVV (puzzle platform)
* And Yet It Moves (puzzle platform)

These games worth 50 $.

Check it out here : http://www.humblebundle.com/

It’s been a while since Valve Software has said anything official about their games and Linux, at least as far as clients are concerned. Recently, Podcast 17 conducted an interview with Gabe Newell, in which he addressed the difficulties of supporting our platform:

GABE @ 02:13: "I don’t think that our motivation is to delay the next Half-Life game. I think one of the things that’s useful for people to, at least understand is: Whenever you are trying to figure out what we are doing, it’s useful to know we have way too many things to do than people to do them. So we’re always sorta measuring things in terms of trade-offs; so we look at how much time something will take versus how many of our customers it’ll benefit. So for example on Linux, we obviously would like to have a Linux client and we’d like to have our games running on Linux, a lot of our— I mean our servers run on Linux, so we’ve been supporting Linux since ‘98 in terms of having server support, but whenever we look at that we have to compare that with “Okay, well we can spend that time making the Mac version better, or the Windows version better, or the 360″. Recently we started supporting the PS3, and for us that decision was mainly motivated by Sony’s willingness to be more open than the console companies have traditionally been around being an internet client. And to us that seemed like something we should really get behind, that sorta tipped us over in terms of doing a PS3 version. But that’s the thing that we’re always faced with. It’s not “What would we like to do?” it’s “What five things would we give up in order to do the one thing we are able to do?”. And that is the constant frustration we have is, there are only so many hours in the day, and we’d love to be doing all those things simultaneously."

Article by LinuxGames.com: http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/17141
Podcast 17 interview of Gabe Newell: http://www.podcast17.com/interviews/audio/gabe-newell/

A special edition of the Humble Indie Bundle is out !

For remembering, the HIB is a pay-what-you-want offer which contains 5 independant games, free drm and Linux compatible (along Mac and Windows). The gift can be split between game developers, 2 charities and Humble Bundle company.

The 5 games contained in this bundle are :
* Trine ;
* Shadowgrounds ;
* Shadowgrounds: Survivor ;
* Splot (a still in development game at preorder) ;
* Jack Claw (a prototype of a cancelled game).

These games developed by Frozenbyte worth 50 $.

Check it out here : http://www.humblebundle.com/

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