120°

Steam gets first game on Linux

Player Attack: "Better late than never," laughs the Steam Linux Team, who has been hard at work porting the digital distribution service over to the new platform. Word on the street suggests that they're getting closer than ever to their goal, announcing an internal beta kicking off next week, with a "private external" launch sometime next month.

Read Full Story >>
playerattack.com
thebudgetgamer4236d ago

Nice, if this works out and we see a lot of games go Linux it would save people a lot of money building custom computers.

darthv724236d ago

I have been so out of the PC side of things that I really thought this had been done a few years ago.

Last PC I built was in 08. Yeah i can laugh at that too.

Conzul4236d ago

The lack of major game support has been the only thing keeping me from using Linux full time. It would be sick if all the power-users/gamers made the switch to Linux because of this. I sure would.

I prefer Mint, btw.

thebudgetgamer4236d ago

I think Mint is based off Ubuntu, not sure if that means you can play through Mint though. Hopefuly.

andron4236d ago

Yes Mint all the way. And Steam on Linux will hopefully be great...

60°
8.0

Toaplan Arcade Shoot 'Em Ups 4 Review -- Gamerhub UK

Save the quarters and blast everything to oblivion at home!

Read Full Story >>
gamerhub.co.uk
290°

Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

Read Full Story >>
thegamer.com
thorstein6d ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii6d ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo6d ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows906d ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel19896d ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

Nooderus5d ago

"X" type of gamer conversations are cringe

qalpha6d ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno6d ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan6d ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno6d ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life19816d ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn6696d ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

Gaming4Life19816d ago

I feel you and i have never walked out on a bad movie cause I payed my money. I also don't refund games cause I'm a gamer and I know what to buy lol. I think having a digital refund is great.

Show all comments (15)
70°

Why Are Steam's Recommendations Dogpoop?

Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm

Read Full Story >>
thegamer.com
UltimateOwnage24d ago

Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.