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Unreal Engine 4.1 Support for Linux Might Spark the End of Windows' Gaming Domination

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Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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The Unreal engine is one of the most prolific pieces of technology used in the gaming industry, and the fact that the developers from Epic have just added official support for SteamOS and Linux is actually one of the biggest leaps for the open source platform since the release of Steam.

Epic has just published the Unreal Engine 4.1 Release Notes, which clearly say that developers can now package their games and deploy them to SteamOS and Linux without any major issues. Developers also explained that, for now, deploying projects to Linux requires compiling source from GitHub using a Windows computer, but that is about to change.

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