{"id":36693,"date":"2012-04-25T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T09:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36693"},"modified":"2012-04-25T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:42:05","slug":"steam-is-coming-to-linux-valve-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36693-steam-is-coming-to-linux-valve-confirms","title":{"rendered":"Steam is coming to Linux, Valve confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Linux\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21507-Linux\">Linux<\/a> gamers will be happy to know that <a title=\"Valve\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11901-Valve\">Valve&#8217;s<\/a> digital distribution software is looking likely to hit the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>According to Phoronix, the elusive platform is in development &#8211; Valve co-founder <a title=\"Gabe Newell\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20189-Gabe-Newell\">Gabe Newell<\/a> replied to a Twitter question with: &#8220;Steam is coming to Linux&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was clarified when Newell reached out to <a title=\"Phoronix\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/24368-Phoronix\">Phoronix<\/a> founder <a title=\"Michael Larabel\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/23890-Michael-Larabel\">Michael Larabel<\/a>, who went on to tweet &#8220;Valve does have Linux games coming plus other very positive Linux plans&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/31078-valve-developing-steam-for-linux.html\">Rumours<\/a> surrounding Steam support for Linux have been floating for quite a while now, as job posts for devs with experience in\u00a0porting \u201cWindows-based games to the Linux platform\u201d emerged from Valve.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Linux users can rest easy as all the Steamy goodness will be at your disposal sometime in the near future.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/4\/25\/2973484\/valve-is-developing-steam-for-linux-says-michael-larabel-of-phoronix\">Phoronix<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=valve_linux_dampfnudeln&amp;num=1\">TheVerge<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/35222-valve-on-the-hunt-for-linux-devs.html\">Valve on the hunt for Linux devs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/31078-valve-developing-steam-for-linux.html\">Valve developing Steam client for Linux?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36504-the-valve-handbook-for-new-employees-yours-to-download-and-keep-forever.html\">The Valve Handbook for New Employees<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve confirms that their Steam service will finally make an appearance on Linux. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":36694,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,981,2065,85,3811,697],"class_list":["post-36693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-gabe-newell","tag-linux","tag-steam","tag-steam-on-linux","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36693","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36702,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36693\/revisions\/36702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}