{"id":41425,"date":"2012-07-17T10:11:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T08:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=41425"},"modified":"2012-07-17T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T08:18:31","slug":"left-4-dead-2-is-valves-first-linux-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/41425-left-4-dead-2-is-valves-first-linux-game","title":{"rendered":"Left 4 Dead 2 is Valve&#8217;s first Linux game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve have been talking about developing on Linux for quite some time now, and the company has just confirmed their first game heading to the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Left 4 Dead 2 will soon be available on Linux, thanks to Valve&#8217;s Steam service making a debut on Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p>Valve&#8217;s current focus is getting Steam running at full functionality, optimising L4D2 to be running at high frame rate with OpenGL, and porting additional Valve titles for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Left 4 Dead 2 has been out for quite some time, it&#8217;s a good step forward for Linux gamers, as the game is still getting support in the form of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40625-left-4-dead-2-cold-stream-campaign-dlc-coming-this-month.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cold Stream DLC pack<\/a> heading for Windows, 360 and Mac.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Valve Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.valvesoftware.com\/linux\/steamd-penguins\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valve Blog<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36693-steam-is-coming-to-linux-valve-confirms.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Steam is coming to Linux, Valve confirms<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\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 confirm zombie-killing action is on its way to Ubuntu <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":41426,"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":[31,5368,5366,2065,5724,5400,85,5725,697],"class_list":["post-41425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-l4d2","tag-left-4-dead-2","tag-linux","tag-linux-games","tag-linux-gaming","tag-steam","tag-ubuntu","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41425","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=41425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41430,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41425\/revisions\/41430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}