All Stories Tagged: Linux, Page 32

The Steam Holiday Sale has started up, offering discounts on Scribblenauts Unlimited, Mirror's Edge, and various Borderlands, Prince of Persia, and Hitman franchise titles.

Santa Tux has visited early this year, dragging an open beta version of Steam's Linux client behind his Gentoo-powered sleigh. Now, all who've embraced the free software revolution can try and test Valve's crack at making Linux a viable gaming platform. Now, stop me if you've heard this before, but next year will surely be The Year of the Linux Desktop.

The Humble THQ Bundle may have raked in more money than almost another other Humble Bundle, but not everyone was thrilled with Humble's first AAA bundle. It was Windows-only, lacking the customary Mac and Linux versions, and also busted the 'no DRM' rule with Steamworks games. Pleasingly, counting the money isn't the only action THQ is taking after that, as the publisher's now looking at making Linux editions of games.

A naughty hacker has busted into the database of S2's Heroes of Newerth, gaining access to account login information. If you've played the DotA 'em up and use a password shared with any other online account, you'll want to get changing those passwords and, honestly, start using individual passwords for each account.

The pieces are coming together for Valve to push into the hardware space, as it increases software support for Linux boxes and points out that the OS would allow more flexibility for hardware plans.

Hip, cool, and jolly nice free roguelike Red Rogue is now available for your dungeon-crawling delight. It's been making waves in certain indie circles for a while, if you've had your ear to the ground, but is only now finished in all its open-source glory. Go, brave warrior, and paint that monochromatic dungeon red.

The pay-what-you-want Humble Android Bundle #4 was already a pretty flipping great offer, and now it's ludicrously so. As is customary, Humble Bundle has boshed in a whole load more multiplatform games for those who pay above the average price, namely Canabalt, Cogs, Zen Bound 2, Avadon: The Black Fortress, and Swords & Soldiers HD.

Johann Sebastian Joust is a critically acclaimed multiplayer game for PlayStation Move that features no graphics. And it's going to get an official PS3 and PC release--with your help.

Tweedpunk first-person survivor Sir, You Are Being Hunted has released the first snippets of actual gameplay from its alpha build to celebrate hitting a modest Kickstarter goal. You'll catch a peek at dodging and fighting robotic gentlemen in a procedurally-generated British countryside, because that's what the video game is about, see.

Steam, Valve's popular portal for PC games, is now available on Linux.