{"id":47021,"date":"2012-11-07T14:40:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T12:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=47021"},"modified":"2012-11-07T14:45:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T12:45:45","slug":"steam-for-linux-beta-launches-with-26-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/47021-steam-for-linux-beta-launches-with-26-games","title":{"rendered":"Steam for Linux beta launches with 26 games"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/em><\/strong>The beta version of Steam for Linux has officially launched, and Linux users who cracked an invite now have a chance to try out the welcomed service.<\/p>\n

Linux\u2019s Steam launches with 26 games on offer, including Team Fortress 2 and Serious Sam 3: BFE, with some great indie titles on offer too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a huge milestone in the development of PC gaming,\u201d according to Gabe Newell, Valve President and co-founder. \u201cSteam users have been asking us to support gaming on Linux. We\u2019re happy to bring rich forms of entertainment and our community of users to this open, customer-friendly platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the moment, the Steam for Linux beta is only compatible with Ubuntu 12.04 and above, although there are plans to bring it to other distros in the future.<\/p>\n

If you weren\u2019t chosen to participate in the beta, don\u2019t worry, you can sign up<\/a> and keep your fingers crossed as Valve will be sending out another round of invites soon.<\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/a>

Steam on Linux<\/p><\/div>\n

Source: Steam\u00a0 <\/a><\/h5>\n

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Linux players can rejoice as Steam for Linux is here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":47022,"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":[31,2065,85,3811,697],"class_list":["post-47021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-linux","tag-steam","tag-steam-on-linux","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47021","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=47021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47029,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47021\/revisions\/47029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}