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Heavy Gear II for Linux Goes Gold

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-new-games dept.

jvmatthe writes, "I've gotten confirmation from Loki that their latest game, Heavy Gear II has gone gold and will be in retail stores soon. You can read our preview of it here at LinuxGames. "

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  1. We all start somewhere.. by Tarnar · · Score: 3

    Loki must have some deal going with Activision, most every title they've ported is an Activision one. Which is good, I like what they put out.

    Of course, it's a little less cool that we're getting games way way past their release. They may still be fun now, but if a better game of the same genre has come out, buying an older one just isn't worthwhile. Unless it's the sort of timeless game that plays well a year or 3 later, like Civ:CTP :-)

    But as my subject says, we have to start somewhere. As more and more people realize Linux is gaming friendly (I have a neighbour in residence who asked to borrow my Civ:CTP.. his reaction to hearing it was the Linux version was 'They make it for Linux?!?!?') then the demand will be for games to be developed on both platforms for release.

    Which is good, it promotes portable code and lets developers know that locking yourself into a proprietary API (DirectX) is not profitable if you can write, say, the graphics engine in OpenGL and have it port (and sell) to many many platforms.