Quite a few months ago writers from various GNU/Linux related websites like the well known "Phoronix" have published articles stating Valve Corporation was working on a GNU/Linux version of the well known Steam application.

Undoubtly this had a lot of people in the GNU/Linux community very excited. That excitement gowever has now come to an abrupt end when Valve ultimately killed the rumor. According to Slashdot.org Doug Lombardi, the Marketing VP of Valve Corporation, in an interview, has put an end to all the rumors by saying that they are not working on Steam for GNU/Linux right now. Considering the ill-fate of GNU/Linux gaming this is actually bad news the community now has to deal with, at least for some time.