I spent a lot of years running up to 2012 playing PS3 shooters and to this day, I have no memory of one particular control system standing out over the other. If asked, I'd say, "gimme keyboard/mouse", but if I'd been hardcore on that stance, I'd have missed... shit, well about half of the top-ten-best-shooters-ever.

Things like Gears of War 2 (back in the day when I briefly owned a 360), Uncharted 2, Last of Us, Killzone2, Resistance 2 Multiplayer, Vanquish. And in my memory, I have no particular feeling that "urgh, I hated playing that on a gamepad".

And I'm using a controller in Steam for Linux at the moment for games like Hammerwatch, Fez, Bastion, Cave Story, Mark of the Ninja, and various others.

So, Steam Controller = Good. Will it get me playing on a big screen? Maybe. For driving games and casual games definitely. For FPS... we'll see.

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Well, I'm drunk and optimistic, so I'm very hopeful that Friday's announcement will involve HL3 and it being exclusive on SteamOS/Linux. Cos that would rock.

In fact, in a little epithany : I wonder if there will be a Half Life 3 / Portal 3 tie in. Players on full HL3 Steam for Linux will be playing a full FPS kill-fest, while players on Portal 3 / SteamOS will be playing a more cerebral, puzzle-based adventure that influences the online adventures of your Freeman-based friends?

Yeah. Maybe not. But a sweet idea while I'm wallowing in my alcoholic fuzz.

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Great video, sadly puts me off ever being bothered to try wine. Some of those games were from 2006/2007 and they're still unplayable/unrunnable in wine. It's just a bit depressing.

Reckon I'll stick to not buying Windows games and snapping up everything under the sun that has a native linux client!

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Quoting: liamdaweI actually had a game very similar in style to this on Amiga, can't for the life of me remember the name though.

Looks exactly like Qix :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qix [External Link]

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Succinctly put. I agree completely - particularly on the irony of bemoaning closed apps stores when you are, in fact, a closed app store. Well, games store. Games and Apps. Ach, you know what I mean.

Still. Loving their work at the moment. Between Valve and Humble, we have some real momentum building.

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Years ago, I spent £170 on a RevoPC and stuck XBMC Live on it (Ubuntu-based XMBC). With its built-in VDPAU acceleration, and HDMI out, this is still my main media centre box. But, since it's linux-based, it won't play with any of the Netflix plug-ins for XMBC.

I'd love to see a SteamBox if only to see Valve give the likes of Netflix and Lovefilm a reason to support linux. Playing my games on my TV would just be icing.

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Just brilliant news to hear their commitment reaffirmed so clearly. Taking your word for it, cos I'll not have time to watch the video until a bit later tonight! :)

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I guess that 'sharing' is pretty distinct from 'lending' too. I'd actually much rather have the ability to lend my games out to a small subset of trusted friends. 

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I have to admit that after all my griping about HiB having lost their way now that they're being alpha funded by big outside influences, it's great to see two stunning games (Fez and Mark of the Ninja) making their linux debuts. This is what HiB used to be all about and despite my reservations, and despite owning all but Fez and Eets Munchies, I stumped up $35 for this bundle.

I have no doubt they'll continue to push Windows-only publisher-based bundles and that will make me sad, but as has been pointed out in the past, at least they continue to work with some developers to create linux versions of games that otherwise wouldn't be made. And that's definitely a good thing.

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I'm only on level 2 on Hammerwatch, so I'll be playing that a bit before I look for another gauntlet-em-up.

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