I only play half-life 1 from time to time now, but I've gotten it to run well in serveral different distros of linux. Still, I think it'd be way nicer to have something that ran linux native as opposed to through wine. I used to play a lot of Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and that ran linux native back in 2001, as does anything based on the Quake III engine.

Windows T9+

until there is a ubiquitous linux environment instead of the fractured landscape that is currently linux, i'll pass and so will most other people with a real life

Heavy-ly advertised.

...on some games. For instance, I can play portal on Ubuntu. Check out "play on linux."

I seem to recall about 3 years ago someone noticed the Linux specific code in the Steam platform updates. Doesn't sound like much has changed since then...

Steam's official answer at that time "Ask about Linux support again and we will ban you from the forums." Really. That's when I stopped buying games from Steam. Well, except Left4Dead 2, but it was cheap.

The full switch to Linux helped cure my gaming addiction. Steam on Linux is going to be hard for me...

Other than that, this is great news!

Why any gamers would go Windows if their games was compatible with linux...

i would only use my ubuntu partition if my games would play on it..

i already have all software equivalent on linux for all my other needs (chatting software, browsers, video and audio appz, office appz and stuff..

Microsoft must grease game CIe to get their title only to Windows, because MS knows gamers grant their OS fidelity on whatever runs their game...