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Valve Officially Passes On Windows 8, Confirms Half-Life 3 is Linux Exclusive

21 points by growse 14y ago

spleeder 14y ago
Sounds to good to be true, there any other confirmations on this?
- dylanrw 14y ago
  I've only found quotes, and no mirrors.
  - uxp 14y ago
    The site seems like a joke. Take a look at some of the other articles (might have to prefix the URLs with 'cache:' to get Google's copy). Lets just flag this and move on. https://twitter.com/p4rgaming https://twitter.com/p4rgaming
rcknight 14y ago
Server seems to be struggling, google cache here http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fp4r.buzzleberry.com%2F%3Fp%3D357&aq=f&oq=cac&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%... I'd definitely like to see some other sources on this one!
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ivanb 14y ago
Looks like hog-wash. Gabe knows that his main audience uses Windows.
- dguaraglia 14y ago
  Exactly. Why would they risk losing immense profit from the Windows-using crowd (read: most gamers)? This is BS.
belorn 14y ago
If valve want to push a new platform, half-life 3 is an excellent flagship product to do so.
spleeder 14y ago
Seems to be fake. I did a Google search and buzzleberry.com is the only site covering this. On top of that someone on this forum http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6802 http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6802 sais that buzzleberry is always writing made up articles.
lmlt 14y ago
Indeed some confirmation would be nice. What interests me is if it would be possible for Valve to provide HL3 on a Linux boot disk making adoption a lot easier for less technical users.. can anyone offer an insight on this?
- spleeder 14y ago
  A bootable Ubuntu DVD with HL3 preinstalled would be amazing indeed!
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hasam2 14y ago
There is no one from Valve speaking at the conference. http://linuxconeurope2012.sched.org/directory/speakers/1 http://linuxconeurope2012.sched.org/directory/speakers/1 CONFIRMED HOAX.
growse 14y ago
I feel bad submitting it now that it appears to be a hoax. Sorry everyone :(
- hasam2 14y ago
  It's not your fault. The origin of the fake story is to blame. The process worked well in that the community was quickly able to assess the true credibility of the story, revealing the story as fake at a very early stage. Had you not submitted it here, someone else might have put it in a different channel where it could have spread uncontrollably.
beatgammit 14y ago
"In a recent survey taken by Wikipedia on operating system statistics, approximately 1.58% of all users use Linux, just losing out to next popular operating system, Other, at 5.41%." LOL, I didn't know that "Other" was an OS... Seems like a copy-paste problem...
mrxtheta 14y ago
If it is true - it is like a shot from a bow with an arrow in the back and knee in the same moment.

21 points by growse 14y ago

spleeder 14y ago

Sounds to good to be true, there any other confirmations on this?

dylanrw 14y ago
I've only found quotes, and no mirrors.
- uxp 14y ago
  The site seems like a joke. Take a look at some of the other articles (might have to prefix the URLs with 'cache:' to get Google's copy). Lets just flag this and move on. https://twitter.com/p4rgaming https://twitter.com/p4rgaming

rcknight 14y ago

Server seems to be struggling, google cache here http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fp4r.buzzleberry.com%2F%3Fp%3D357&aq=f&oq=cac&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%... I'd definitely like to see some other sources on this one!

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ivanb 14y ago

Looks like hog-wash. Gabe knows that his main audience uses Windows.

dguaraglia 14y ago
Exactly. Why would they risk losing immense profit from the Windows-using crowd (read: most gamers)? This is BS.

belorn 14y ago

If valve want to push a new platform, half-life 3 is an excellent flagship product to do so.

spleeder 14y ago

Seems to be fake. I did a Google search and buzzleberry.com is the only site covering this. On top of that someone on this forum http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6802 http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6802 sais that buzzleberry is always writing made up articles.

lmlt 14y ago

Indeed some confirmation would be nice. What interests me is if it would be possible for Valve to provide HL3 on a Linux boot disk making adoption a lot easier for less technical users.. can anyone offer an insight on this?

spleeder 14y ago
A bootable Ubuntu DVD with HL3 preinstalled would be amazing indeed!

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hasam2 14y ago

There is no one from Valve speaking at the conference. http://linuxconeurope2012.sched.org/directory/speakers/1 http://linuxconeurope2012.sched.org/directory/speakers/1 CONFIRMED HOAX.

growse 14y ago

I feel bad submitting it now that it appears to be a hoax. Sorry everyone :(

hasam2 14y ago
It's not your fault. The origin of the fake story is to blame. The process worked well in that the community was quickly able to assess the true credibility of the story, revealing the story as fake at a very early stage. Had you not submitted it here, someone else might have put it in a different channel where it could have spread uncontrollably.

beatgammit 14y ago

"In a recent survey taken by Wikipedia on operating system statistics, approximately 1.58% of all users use Linux, just losing out to next popular operating system, Other, at 5.41%." LOL, I didn't know that "Other" was an OS... Seems like a copy-paste problem...

mrxtheta 14y ago

If it is true - it is like a shot from a bow with an arrow in the back and knee in the same moment.