{"id":9300,"date":"2013-02-18T00:17:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T06:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9300"},"modified":"2013-02-18T00:17:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T06:17:12","slug":"valve-officially-launches-steam-for-linux-with-massive-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9300","title":{"rendered":"Valve officially launches Steam for Linux with massive sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Linux version of Steam will likely be at the core of Valve&#8217;s upcoming plans for <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2012\/12\/newell-valve-planning-steam-based-living-room-pc-for-2013\/\">living room-based &#8220;Steam Box&#8221; hardware<\/a>, building off the <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2012\/09\/steam-comes-to-the-living-room-tv-with-big-picture-mode-beta\/\">recently unveiled Big Picture mode<\/a>. The move to Linux also gives Valve more flexibility in working around Microsoft&#8217;s Windows 8, which co-founder Gabe Newell <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2012\/07\/steams-newell-windows-8-catastrophe-driving-valve-to-embrace-linux\/\">has called<\/a> &#8220;a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2013\/02\/valve-officially-launches-steam-for-linux-with-massive-sale\/\">Valve officially launches Steam for Linux with massive sale | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Linux version of Steam will likely be at the core of Valve&#8217;s upcoming plans for living room-based &#8220;Steam Box&#8221; hardware, building off the recently unveiled Big Picture mode. The move to Linux also gives Valve more flexibility in working &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9300\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[661,746,74],"class_list":["post-9300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","tag-gaming","tag-steam","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}