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LGP Announces Two More Titles

Posted by michael on from the we-miss-you-loki dept.

dolson writes "Earlier today Linux Game Publishing announced the next two titles that they will be porting to Linux. They are both made by Grim, a Swedish development company, and they are called Ballistics and Bandits: Phoenix Rising. One is a high-speed racing game, and the other is a driving/action game."

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  1. Do Linux Games Sell? by tealover · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What is the best selling linux game of all time and how does that compare to the best selling PC games?

    Just curious. I myself bought the Quake 2 games for Linux but that was a couple of years ago. I primarily play console games now.

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    -- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
  2. Not really, but picking up the pace... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting
    One industry insider compares the community to the Macintosh community ("Small but fanatical", in his words). Apparently, while the Mac community is still considered a reasonable investment for many companies, the perception of rampant piracy among Linux users was largely bourne out in Loki Software's books. He explained that a niche programming company needed something like 24% penetration at normal game pricing to achieve a reasonable return, but that the last three 'blockbusters' got anywhere between 2%-5% of the estimated Linux base, which was rather surprising given the quality of the software he said (comparatively, they got between 10%-16% of the Windows market, which factored heavily into the design considerations for future product).

    I pointed out that there isn't much point to running Quake and whatnot on a server, and he agreed, saying that if Linux ever really makes it to the desktop these companies that were just targeting it in the first place because it was "the next big thing" will revisit it.