14 DAY TRIAL // Steam for Linux is not even out yet, but it has already generated a lot of interest in the community, especially because Valve has decided to port a few of its games to the new platform.
The latest game confirmed (sort of, we'll explain below) for Steam is none other than the amazing first person multiplayer shooter, Team Fortress 2.
Team Fortress 2 is built on the Source engine, the same one that powers all the games from Valve, starting with Half-Life 2 and ending with their recent addition, Portal 2.
The game puts the players in one of two teams, red or blue, and allows them to choose a character from one of the available classes: Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy, Engineer, Medic, Sniper, and Spy.
TF2 features a large number of multiplayer modes, such as Capture the Flag, Control Point, Payload, Arena, King of the Hill and more.
The most interesting aspect about the availability of Team Fortress on Linux is the fact that Source engine can run on this platform, opening the way for many other games, including the rest developed by Valve over the years.
So far, there have been quite a few confirmed games for Steam on Linux: Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, Killing Floor, Darwinia, Uplink, DEFCON, Multiwinia, Psychonauts, And Yet It Moves, World of Goo, Trine 2, Serious Sam 3: BFE, Limbo, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Steel Storm, Rochard, Dynamite Jack, Crusader Kings II, Cubemen, Dungeons of Dredmor, and many others.
As usual, the information was made available with the help of the CDR Database, a record of data that describes every Steam game and subscription provided by Valve for the Steam service. Usually, the new entries in the Steam database are firstly visible in the CDR Database before their official launch.
This means that we can't guarantee that the game will be released on Linux, but the CDR database hasn't failed us so far.