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LinuxWorld: The Growing Market for Linux Games
Apr 6, 2004, 04 :00 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (6045 reads)

(Other stories by Jay Swackhamer)

[ Thanks to Jason Greenwood for this link. ]

"There are people that say the market for Linux games is a small one. I would have to disagree. If you read through posts on any number of forums and mailing lists, you can see that there is a large group of people that want to play their favorite game on Linux.

"If you do a search on the terms +linux +windows +'just to play games' you will find many references to people that do all of their work on Linux and keep a windows partition 'Just to play games.' I'd say that over the last couple of years, the time has come that you don't need that Windows partition to play games. Just load the 3D drivers from nVidia or ATI and get on with the game...!"

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
I have Linux on all my computers/servers ...   Games on Linux   
linuxgirlie
Apr 6, 2004, 09:36:09
 
 Hopefully with the release of DooM 3 so ...   Re: Games on Linux   
Toby Haynes
Apr 6, 2004, 13:26:20
 
Yes, Doom 3 is supposed to have a native ...   Re: Games on Linux   
C. Whitman
Apr 6, 2004, 14:50:51
 
The online MMORPG "A Tale in the Desert" ...   Re: Re: Games on Linux   
Scott Davis
Apr 6, 2004, 15:10:47
 
Epic (and Atari?) did a native port of U ...   Thanks for UT2004 Epic!   
codez
Apr 6, 2004, 16:20:03
 
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