According to Phoronix, Blizzard - the company behind famous games like Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo .. - is set to release a game for Linux in 2013.
Chances are that in last few days you must have heard about Project Eternity, an isometric, party-based CRPG set in a new fantasy world developed by Obsidian Entertainment.
The game is being developed by a team of developers who worked on popular role playing games like Baldur's Gate Series, Planescape Torment, Fallout 1 & 2, Arcanum, Temple of Eleme
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...).
Whatever it ends up being
Update: Official Blizzard Response
Blizzard has banned all Linux users who are playing Diablo III on Linux using Wine. A number of Linux users suddenly got a message from Blizzard that they can no longer use their account to play Diablo III any more.
Diablo III's cheat detection system is detecting Wine as a way to cheat.
With Unity Technologies finally adding Linux publishing support in Unity 4.0 beta, game developers can now compile and run their games on Linux.
Some announcement have been made in last few days by game studios, confirming Linux support for their Unity games.
Gaslamp Games has announced a new 3D steampunk city building game 'Clockwork Empires' for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Gamslamp Games is well renowned as creators of popular roguelike RPG game 'Dungeons of Dredmor'.
Clockwork Empires will be a sandbox city-builder with a 19th century theme.
This really is an ‘upgrade’ without the upgrade. The new game upgrade which has just been released by Blizzard games wow gold http://www.flywowgold.com is producing game play even more exciting.
'Grimm: Quest for the Gatherer's Key' is a fantasy hack 'n' slash game with a lot of platforming elements that you might find in games like the Prince of Persia or Tomb Raider series, however from a First Person perspective.
The game runs as a Doom III mod so you will need original copy of the game.
According to the developers, the game will support any Linux distro
The following tutorial will teach Linux users how to install the Diablo 3 game on their open source operating system. The third installment in the Diablo franchise, Diablo III, is a dark horror/fantasy-themed role-playing game (RPG) developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. The game features elements of the hack and slash, acti... (read more)
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