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Jagged Alliance 2 for Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the yet-more-games-coming dept.

Vesper writes "Sir-Tech Canada announced that there will be a Linux port of the popular turn-based strategy game, Jagged Alliance 2, ported by Tribsoft. Saw a blurb on this over at AVault. The game will be bundled with the expansion, "Unfinished Business", and available in Spring 2000. The rate at which publishers are announcing games for Linux seems to be increasing. "

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  1. Encouraging by HoserHead · · Score: 5
    I'm very encouraged by the number of games being ported or already ported to Linux. I've made a point of buying games (from Canux) for Linux which I might not have bought before, simply to show both Loki and Canux support. For example, I certainly wouldn't have bought Quake III so early after it was released had it not been important to me to show the numbercrunchers at id and Activision that Linux is a valid platform.

    I'm very discouraged, however, by the fact that one very important game to me hasn't been ported or announced by Loki: Half-Life. Valve have to know that this'd kill, and that more people would buy that port than would buy Quake III, probably. I know I'd snap it up right away. And I've made it very clear to a number of companies, when inquiring as to their Linux port status, that I wouldn't buy their games if they weren't available for Linux.

    It might sound a little crazy - support for only games for Linux - but, simply put, it needs support. I'm the biggest Free Software advocate out there. Hell, I don't even like the term "Open source." But games are sort of different - I'm not so sure that Free Software will work for all games.

    And, in the end, by buying Linux-ported games the market itself is expanding, and more people will get into Linux - and isn't that what we all want?