{"id":31078,"date":"2012-01-19T17:23:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T15:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31078"},"modified":"2012-01-19T17:34:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T15:34:27","slug":"valve-developing-steam-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31078-valve-developing-steam-for-linux","title":{"rendered":"Valve developing Steam client for Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In exciting news of the unverified and speculative persuasion, Valve might quite possibly be looking into perchance branching into Tux the Linux penguin’s territory. Maybe.<\/p>\n

Earlier today on Valve Software’s corporate site, a job listing has been posted that goes something to the effect of:<\/p>\n

\u201cLead engineer and architect on product integration into the highly available digital distribution platform called “Steam”. Utilize business\/commerce background and engineering skills to drive next generation features for software developed by Valve.\u201d<\/p>\n

A key responsibility for would-be candidates includes porting \u201cWindows-based games to the Linux platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

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"I'm here for the Linux programming job."<\/p><\/div>\n

Sounds pretty promising, doesn’t it? It’s not entirely unlikely either. The PWYW (Pay-What-You-Want) model, probably best implemented by the Humble and Indie Royale bundles, have already shown a strong support from Linux users, indicating a tangible demand from Linux gamers.<\/p>\n

If you have a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering and at least two years of experience in stuff, then perhaps this is right up your alley. You might even help shake up the industry a bit.<\/p>\n

Unless Valve is trolling us and this is all just an elaborate ruse to find someone to maintain their Linux servers. You decide!<\/p>\n

Source: Valve Software<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valve is hiring developers to port Windows games to Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":31079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2065,85,697],"class_list":["post-31078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-linux","tag-steam","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31080,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31078\/revisions\/31080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}