Video Games: Valve, Steam, Linux, Ubuntu, Video Game Store.. What's the Video Game Connection?
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- Published on Friday, 15 February 2013 15:42
Valve Steam Linux Video Game Store
New video game store is available. Valve has announced that there is a Linux version of its Steam video game store. If you are a Ubuntu user, you will have access to over 60 video games, including the popular games, Counterstrike and Team Fortress 2. There are over twenty million people who prefer the Ubuntu version of the Linux operating system to other commercial alternatives. The neat aspect of the Ubuntu system? It is completely free. Another benefit of this system is that it is open-source which gives you access to programming code.
Valve now has a Linux video game store
The video games can be accessed through Steam store using an add-on application from the Ubuntu software
center. The linux version of Steam also has other video games made by other companies.
Steam
The downside of the Linux video game store is that companies lean toward producing games for the Windows operating system-- about 2,000, compared to Linux's paltry 60. However, a representative, David Pitkin, who works for Ubuntu developer Canonical states that a growing number of developers are including Ubuntu among their target platforms.
The upside of the Linux video game store opening is that Steam has slashed the prices of PC and Mac versions of the video games available to Ubuntu users by up to 75%. The steam video game sale ends February 21, 2013.