Items tagged with left 4 dead 2
Valve has been making a concerted effort towards promoting Linux as a viable gaming platform, in part because it still fears Microsoft may eventually take a walled garden approach to Windows. Whether or not that fear is founded, it's full Steam ahead into open source territory, with the latest achievement toward that end being the release of the Left 4 Dead 2 beta for Linux. "The beta build not only allows Linux owners to play the game natively, it is also the testing ground for our new Extended Mutation System," the L4D2 team stated in a blog post. "If you currently own Left 4 Dead 2, You should see 'Left 4 Dead 2 Beta' in your library. If it doesn’t show up, restart Steam. This is a complete...
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One of the prevailing theories as to why Linux isn't more widely adopted is because of games support. Sure, you can play games on Linux systems, and a good many of them when you factor in WINE and the such, but Windows is still more widely supported. Regardless of that being the case, Valve says it's able to get Left 4 Dead 2 to run faster on Ubuntu than on a Windows 7 system. We won't get into Valve's crazy talk that Windows 8 will utterly destroy PC gaming as we know it, but suffice to say, the developer is currently hard at work porting its Steam platform over to Linux. Valve has been testing Left 4 Dead 2 on a system running a 32-bit version of Ubuntu 12.04, and at first, it was only able...
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It's not often that we cover software titles specifically here at HotHardware, but the Left 4 Dead series isn't your average software title. We use it religiously when testing out the latest desktop rigs, and in our down time, we spend way too many hours blasting through the undead in an attempt to hit that next level. Valve has today announced yet another reason to crank up the title if you've been letting it collect dust: The Passing. It's a new add-on that aims to "bring L4D1 survivors down south," and it'll be released tomorrow exclusive for the Xbox 360 console and the PC. It also introduces something new to the gaming world--weekly game mode events dubbed "Mutations." These week-long runs...
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