Valve hiring to port games to Linux?
Sep 13th, 2007 by Tim
A job offer for Senior Engineer that recently appeared on Valve’s website lists among other things the following responsibilty:
Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform.
If they really mean games and not game servers this might be a major breaking point for Linux gaming and Linux on the desktop in general.
Valve’s Steam platform is probably the number one way to purchase games digitally, and if it gets ported to Linux it might be a big enough incentive for other game develops to port ther games to Linux, too.
if they do, i’ll probably buy for pretty sure(depending on what will be ported though).
I’m pretty sure this would be the best thing ever for Linux! Games being ported to Linux for use would be amazing. I have very few Windows games anymore, and most of them I play on Wine. Guild Wars for example.