Gaming on Linux has come a long way; PikaOS is one such distro that offers a user-friendly, out-of-the-box experience.

Valve is making it a little easier to be a gamer with a Linux computer. A few years ago the company started encouraging game developers to port their titles to run on Linux… but the vast majority of ...

Until the 2000s, game consoles existed primarily to bring a bit of the gaming arcade experience to homes, providing graphical ...

"Porting games to Steam on Linux is a waste of time." "The sales we do get on Linux platforms result in an inordinate amount of technical support and refunds." These are statements often heard inside ...

Steam for Linux doesn’t show any signs of fizzling out. Borderlands 2 recently arrived for Linux, even after Gearbox president Randy Pitchford warned Linux users not to get their hopes up. Steam also ...

Details on SteamOS, which has only been released to a few developers at this point, are scarce. At least one Linux expert who has seen it, Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin, said, "With ...

A few months after Valve officially launched Steam for Linux in 2013, Gabe Newell gave his LinuxCon keynote crowd a bit of music for their ears. “It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling ...

Linux users now have access to many more Windows titles on Steam with a new version of Steam Play, according to a blog post from Valve on Tuesday. While those who use the Linux operating system ...

This week, Valve announced a new beta version of Steam Play that includes a Windows emulator for Linux. This project is part of Steam's effort to bring more compatible games to Linux, allowing those ...

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