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Blizzard may launch a game for Linux this year

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http://www.linuxandlife.com – According to Phoronix, Blizzard - the company behind famous games like Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo .. - is set to release a game for Linux in 2013. It has been confirmed by a source at Blizzard that such a game is in the works and the game will be targeting Ubuntu users. Although we dont know which game that is yet but it looks likely to be a port of an existing game from one Blizzard’s very popular series. Many people guess it will be World Of Warcraft because this game already has a Linux client working alongside two years of maintenance updates.  This is a very good news for t (Distributions)

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From phoronix.com:

"Blizzard Entertainment, the game studio behind wildly-popular games like World of Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft, is planning for a Linux game announcement in 2013."

They say they will target Ubuntu just as Valve has done.

I personally am hoping for a native WoW client, or, barring that, Warcraft 4 (seriously it's about time...).

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