For those that haven't seen it yet: Metro Last Light is now also offered on Steam in a native Linux version.
wow
just out of curiousity...
How many Tripple A titles are there on linux?
This is great news and a shift has started to happen backed by a the good comapny Valve, lets hope it holds up and things start to shift on mass in the future - Have been looking forward for a long time to have a Linux boot that I can game from
Define Triple A title?
Is Minecraft a Triple A title? Does that make Infinitminer a Triple A title? Or Minetest or any of the other free and open source voxel based open world development games? Because Minecraft is a clone thereof... and a bad clone, because whereas the others are coded in C, and are easy to mod in lua, Minecraft is coded in Java...
Is UT a triple A title? Then how about Sauerbraten or Xonotic, which do the same but offer two times as much frames per second and a better 3D engine?
Is Microsoft Flight Simulator a Triple A title? Then what about Flightgear, which is used for real flight simulators in pilot training programs?
Etc, etc...
Doesn't a game become a "Triple A" title because some sponsored media channel calls it that?
There is a lot of free and open source gaming going on, and closed source games on linux are relatively new, and frowned upon by free and open source users, because the price of closed source games mostly isn't justified by added quality in either the software or the gaming experience. In my opinion, with the current quality and technological state (let's tell the truth: console ports!!!!) of commercial games, they will not be a huge success on linux, because linux users are spoiled by free and open source quality, they don't easily cough up money for half baked products. But I'm also sure that as exclusivity deals end, Steam will completely move towards linux as main platform, because it has better technology, and will allow for a better overall gaming experience, that is technologically not possible on Windows. It will not be free and open source, it will be a free and open source ripoff, but it will be a better gaming experience than on the Windows software console. FYI, Crytek has switched to linux also, they are just holding out until exclusivity deals end, before they start pumping money in marketing for the commercial linux games.
There is a huge free and open source gaming community that uses Linux. Is there a Windows "gaming edition"? No... but there are many "Gaming Edition" Linux distros, even from huge software houses like RedHat, Google, nVidia, Samsung, etc.... PC Gaming has long left Windows, Windows is disguised console gaming now and has been for a very long time. It's not because it's not advertised, that it's not huge.