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Nokia Looks To Linux For Games
News Consumer-electronics giant Nokia took the wraps off an independent site on Monday aimed at bringing Linux developers together to create games and other software for set-top boxes. Once connected to a television, the device will allow consumers to...
[May 15, 2001, 7:56]
A Year Ago: Linux Games: It's No Myth
News Game developer Bungie Software gave Linux a boost on Tuesday by announcing its intent to port its recently release title Myth II: Soulblighter to the open-source platform. The company has handed to project over to Linux software developer Loki...
[May 19, 2000, 7:01]
Linux Games: It's No Myth
News Game developer Bungie Software gave Linux a boost on Tuesday by announcing its intent to port its recently release title Myth II: Soulblighter to the open-source platform. The company has handed to project over to Linux software developer Loki...
[May 19, 1999, 8:02]
Linuxcare Supports Video Games Platform
News Services and support firm Linuxcare gave a boost to the Linux gaming scene Monday announcing a deal with games platform development company Indrema. Under the agreement Linuxcare will provide support for developers porting games to the Indrema...
[August 15, 2000, 13:47]
Penguin Playtime: Linux Gets Game
News Games are hard to install on Linux. On 8 March, Loki Interactive Entertainment, the largest publisher of Linux games, and multimedia-hardware maker Creative Technologies announced a collaboration on an open-audio specification known as OpenAL...
[June 9, 2000, 8:33]
News Burst: Linuxcare Supports Video Games Platform
News Services and support firm Linuxcare gave a boost to the Linux gaming scene Monday by striking a deal with games platform development company Indrema. Under the agreement, Linuxcare will provide support for developers producing games for the Indrema...
[August 15, 2000, 9:34]
Microsoft's Late Expectations
Talkback The previous post said Linux doesn't support games, how untrue! When Linux overtakes windows as the OS of choice (if you follow my meaning) then games will be written for that platform. The reality is games are understandably written for the most...
[March 24, 2006, 8:26]
Microsoft's Late Expectations
Talkback Linux of course support games - what I meant was that current games do not run on Linux. Sorry, Matt. I worded it badly. As you pointed out, they are released for the prevalent platform, which is Windows.
[March 24, 2006, 12:48]
Xbox Hackers Attempt To Blackmail Microsoft
News A group of Xbox-security researchers say they have found a way to run Linux on the Xbox games console without a mod chip and will go public with the technique if Microsoft won't talk to them about releasing an official Linux boot loader.
[June 27, 2003, 15:27]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Games (good games) don't run on ubuntu. I hope one day the final barriers that hold ubuntu/linux back will be overcome though. But hey, linux is just dashing ahead in leaps and bounds faster and faster, so the skys the limmit - AND ITS FREE.
[October 22, 2007, 5:06]
Linux Picking Up Its Game
News A lack of good games can hurt any PC platform, and Linux is feeling the pain. Even our developers have trouble getting (games) going," said Scott Draeker, president of Loki, during a conference session at the LinuxWorld show here, emphasising the...
[February 4, 2000, 7:26]
Hmmm
Talkback I doubt no one would disagree that Linux doesn't have enough commercial games, and yes Linux does have wine but its only an emulator and whilst I lot of things run there are problems So the only thing I use Windows for is games, anything else I use...
[May 8, 2007, 13:58]
Red Hat Recommends Windows For Consumers
Talkback I also play my playstation games on my Linux box using a very good emulator ePSXe wich works better in Linux than in W****ws. I installed Slackware at home and my wife who never used a pc before can use it with no problems, also my 3 years old...
[November 5, 2003, 9:38]
PlayStation2 Linux Kit Ships In UK
News It includes hardware and software for essentially turning the PlayStation2 games console into a Linux PC, with a 40GB hard disk, 10/100Mbps network adapter, USB keyboard and mouse, monitor cable and a Linux installation DVD-ROM.
[May 23, 2002, 13:56]
Xbox Mod Chip Released
News A company based in Melbourne claims to have released a mod-chip for Microsoft's Xbox games console that allows users to play homebrew games, original imports, run debug executables and is Linux-compatible.
[January 24, 2003, 8:30]
New Ubuntu Out Tomorrow
Blog Comment The Linux versions of games come out late or not at all in some cases still it's better than Mac the few games that do come out are usually about 4 years late! Software compatibility - I list this Separate from games as you can usually get a Linux...
[April 23, 2008, 14:02]
Windows To Linux
Blog Comment I like to play alot of games (yes there are ways/methods/tricks to allows games to run on Linux OSs, but i don't have the time/urge to fiddle trying to get things to work). For example I use Firefox/ Thunderbird & Open Office yet my desktop machine...
[September 4, 2008, 12:59]
Linux For Xbox Released
News It can be used for office applications, the Internet, email, Linux games or even as a Web, file or database server. Once installed, the chips shut down security systems built into the console, allowing it to run unauthorised software, legally and...
[October 9, 2002, 10:45]
Matalan Checks Out Linux Tills
Talkback Default installation of many Linux distros = Graphics programs, office suite(s), sound editors, video viewers, varied games, etc. Default installation of Windows = Paint (hardly qualifies as a graphics program), no office suite, no sound editor...
[September 28, 2005, 15:09]
Linux Developers Shift The Course Of An Industry
Talkback No, you can't play all of those wonder games in linux, but some you can, with things like WineX. Linux has a long ways to go, like more hardware manufacturer support, porting apps, including games to linux, and so forth.
[September 12, 2003, 19:18]
