Linux finally gets what was promised to it
Of late the gaming situation on Linux has been… well, fairly dire. whereas before games were actively getting ports to Linux and there was a genuine interest in porting games to Linux these days we are ‘lucky’ to get a port. epic gaming however, the people behind such diverse titles such as unreal and unreal tournament and unreal tournament 2003 and unreal tournament 2004 and unreal 2 and unreal tournament 3 have always supported linux fairly actively, we got Linux versions of all the unreal games.. apart from unreal tournament 3.
Unfortunately even though the port to linux of unreal tournament 3 was completed weeks after it shipped legal issues regarding a middleware company refusing to licence its code to run on linux have resulted in there being no linux client for almost a year now.
Now i am no lover of the unreal games, i don’t dislike them but i just prefer other types of games these days, however the lack of a linux port does not bode well for future linux ports of games (i don’t care if your not a gamer and go ‘meh’ towards the whole issue, gaming on linux is important for the linux and open source operating systems ecosystem as a whole), but lately, after months and months of no word from epic or the fantastic Ryan C Gordon (who ports a lot of commercial games to windows) we finally get some ‘its nearly here’ and some nice screenshots of ut3 running on ubuntu. sure its late, but at least its delivered.
unreal tournament 3 running on ubuntu
