An anonymous reader writes “Gabe Newell has responded to an email asking if Steam for Linux will be released this year with the simple answer ‘Yes.’ That means at some point in the next 7 months anyone in succession Linux will be able to download Steam and start playing a number of games, including at least one Valve title (most likely Left 4 Dead 2). After that the emphasis will be on game developers to start porting their Steam games over to Linux. 2012 could be a fantastic year for gaming on Linux. The news follows the revelation in April that Valve was indeed working on a Linux port of its digital games service. At the time though, and as with all Valve software, we had no thought when it would get released.”
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