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Transgaming to Support Half Life 2 Under Linux

Posted by Zonk on from the we-don't-go-to-ravenholme,-tux dept.

rpdillon writes "According to Half-Life Fallout, Transgaming Technologies has announced that they will be releasing version 4.2 of Cedega, their Wine based software allowing some DirectX games to be played under Linux. The new version will be released Dec 7th with official support included for Valve Software's Half-Life 2 and Steam, Valve's online software store and distribution system, and a required component of Half-Life 2."

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  1. What is real "halflife" ? by 2.7182 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Halflife refers to the amount of time it takes for a radioactive substance to decay to 1/2 of its mass.
    What is the relation to the game, exactly ?

    1. Re:What is real "halflife" ? by tod_miller · · Score: 4, Funny

      It was set inside 'Black Mesa' a research institute, that no doubt had all sorts of radioactive nastiness being carried around by cool looking robots.

      Plus the developers thought, wow, sounds like a cool name for a game.

      Throw a symbol of the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet around and you have a top notch game. ,\

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    2. Re:What is real "halflife" ? by oexeo · · Score: 5, Funny

      HalfLife is the point where it absorbs half of your life, where you should probably doing more productive things

  2. This means... by RandoX · · Score: 3, Funny

    Steamed pengiun for dinner!

  3. In other news... by HohlerMann · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linux users join the masses of gamers who are collectively WINEing about activation delays.

  4. Re:slow? by Psycho77 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news: WINE get sued by microsoft for IsNot Patent :)