Steam for Linux Passes 1600 Games Exactly Three Years After Launch

Steam has changed the Linux ecosystem forever

Steam for Linux has been around for three years, and it completely changed the landscape, bringing a lot of games to Gnu/Linux and signaling to the industry that this OS is ready to become a gaming platform for who want to Switch to Gnu/Linux.

The launch of Steam for Linux back in November 2012 has done much more than just convince a lot of developers to port their games to the open source OS. It sent a clear signal to the entire community, not just gaming, that it’s time to look at Gnu/Linux more carefully and start building products for it and expecting more Gnu/Linux laptops for next upcoming years.

Let’s just take the example of Nvidia and AMD. Both companies had drivers for Linux users, but they were in a really poor state, and they didn’t seem to care. The advent of gaming changed all that and we now have much more frequent driver releases, and it’s clear that the developers from these companies have a lot more work to do. Also, Nvidia is working to port the available middleware as well.

Where is Steam for Gnu/Linux going?

Right now, there are over 1600 games (1618) on the Steam for Linux, and the number of releases increases all the time. More developers choose to port the titles for Linux users, developers change their engines to export for Linux, and feature parity between Windows and Linux graphics will be a fact once the new Vulkan (OpenGL spiritual successor) is released.

We can’t really say that Steam for Linux is a success, as it’s still too early to tell. What we do know is that Valve is also heavily investing a new Linux operating system named SteamOS, based on Debian, and it has big plans for the future.

Valve is playing the long game and they don’t seem to expect fast results. As it stands right now, the Linux users account for about 1%, but they do hope that’s going to change in the future, albeit not the immediate one.

PRISM Flash Game Is Hilarious with Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden is now a criminal in the eyes of the U.S Government

Edward Snowden has become instantly famous after the US data collecting movement know as PRISM. Fortunately for game developers with their creative thoughts they took it as an opportunity to create a game called "Snowden's Leaks: The Game" that is not only new and timely but also fun and hilarious.

Snowden's Leaks : The Game

NSA spy on everyone and steals the data, in this game Edward Snowden whose cartoon image shows him wearing his familiar glasses. He will steal the data from the NSA and copy all of them in the flash drive. As the total data is collected by facing several obstacles along the way passing though security, avoiding camera detection, blocking agents, hiding beyond U.S flag, the funny thing here is even escaping from the President Obama.

They are many things in the game to safe Edward himself by hiding back the Photo Painting frame, U.S flag when player want to go undetected when security or agent arrives.

A level is ended once you throw the flash drives out the window where the date is collected from the computers, i.e., leaking the data to outside world and mark a grand escape when we go to exit door.

The game is created by a group of Dutch developer who claimed that they ware able to finalize the game in just three days. Aside from the Snowden PRISM game.


You could try it out online here .