Tag: steam
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Steam Has Over 3000 Linux Games
Liam Dawe: Steam has hit another milestone for Linux games. We now have over 3,000 Linux games to fill our time with. The exact count for me right now is 3,008! An impressive number of games with Linux support. I wonder how many are native ports versus Windows pretendulation. My search comes up with 3164 for…
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Goodbye Greenlight, Hello Direct
Valve is replacing Steam Greenlight. Alden Kroll: The next step in these improvements is to establish a new direct sign-up system for developers to put their games on Steam. This new path, which we’re calling “Steam Direct,” is targeted for Spring 2017 and will replace Steam Greenlight. We will ask new developers to complete a…
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Where Should Valve Draw the Line on Hosting and Selling Software?
In the past Valve has had a policy of not allowing software onto Steam for violating some unwritten policy about nudity. The only examples I know of are for games containing drawn nudity. Developers who want to work around this policy offer a different version of the game on Steam and a patch on the…
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Where’s the HTC Vive support for SteamOS?
Liam Dawe is killing it. Here’s his list of what Valve needs to get done in order to get SteamOS back on track, One thing that has been really bothering me, where’s the support for Linux/SteamOS with the HTC Vive?: Their own VR device is not yet Linux compatible. I don’t know what the issues are…