Those sneaky little.... I was under the impression this had been delayed. What a great surprise to wake up and find! :)

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Wishlist'd, but a little curious why the Steam entry lists Windows and Mac, but not linux. :\

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Given my experiences so far with Aspyr, they could release an empty text file and I'm going to buy it first-day, and then pick-up whatever text-file DLC they want to release. :)

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Starting to feel like we need a "shame list" of the developers/publishers that have made Linux promises and then backed out. Especially for those that took kickstarter/early-access-type dollars and then failed to deliver.

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In general, I agree with everything said here. Regardless of what happens next for the Steammachine/SteamOS, the last year or so has been 100% win.

I will say, however, that using the metric of "% of my library" is a horribly flawed way of looking at the state of the union. By definition, we (linux gamers) are more likely to have a linux-dominated library, so it will almost always appear to be that the market is looking great. Likewise, I don't believe you can safely use the old stand-by "% of the general Top Sellers on Steam". Windows users still dominate the market, the will float some games to the top that will skew that top sellers-style of list.

A better metric would need to be user-independent and based on the *all* new games within a given date range ("last month", "last quarter", etc). Optionally, you could filter further by "AAA" vs "non-AAA", but I suspect you'll run into issues of what exactly is a AAA game/where do you draw that line.

Using Steam only (which right away is also a flawed approach), looking at all software, filtered by Games Only (that is, excluding things like tools, SDKs, etc), they show a library of 4,565 games, 981 of those are available on linux (21%). Looking at just what has a release date within February 2015: 226 total, 44 for linux (19%). Which is all hellvua' lot better than the market was a year or three ago, but far from our personal libraries what 40%, 50% and higher would be more common.

From an analytics stand point, I'd also be kind of interested in a breakdown based on game genre. Do RPGs get ported more often than Action, etc. that kind of thing.

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While I don't personally pre-order anything due to the constant issues we Linux gamers have with ports suddenly vanishing

I think this is a real issue. We (as a community) have been hit too many times and now there are active, vocal "do not preorder" groups out there. Preordering is starting to be treated like a serious breach of best-practices for a linux gamer, which is unfortunate.

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I've been following the development of Skylines for months now. I'm very excited for it. It's definitely on my must-buy list. It might even get me to break my normal restriction on "no pre-orders", but I want to be sure that Linux gets the credit so I'll hold off until the bits are downloadable.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_Engine#Games_using_C4 [External Link]

Looking over the list of games that use this engine, we're really going to be missing out by this decision. Truly, the loss of triple-AAA hit titles like "Gremlin Invasion", "Gremlin Invasion: Survivor" and "City Bus Simulator 2010" will be devastating to the Linux gaming community.

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What do you think?

I want to see a retail price, and I want to know when I can get it. Can I just plug it in to any ol' linux PC, or will it only work (out of the box) with a steam machine?

But generally speaking, I like what I'm seeing. As long as the price-point on the controller (and the machine) aren't too painful I plan on getting both. (that is, a steam machine for the living room, and an additional controller for my PC in the office)

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I can't imagine that MS's acquisition of Minecraft has exactly endeared it to the linux-faithful. But for me, the real surprise:

Windows 95 - 1076

There shouldn't be that many Win95 boxes left. Period. Let alone running MC. :)

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