Civilization V Might Be Heading To Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Civilization V Might Be Heading To Linux

As the latest good news for Linux gamers is that it appears 2K Games is bringing some of their titles to Linux like Civilization V and XCOM: Enemy Unknown...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQ3Nzc

[Pahanilmanlintu]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

I just came....


...here to tell you how much i appreciate this.

These particular games are about 2/4 of the reason i'm forced to keep win7 installed. The rest being Skyrim and Deus Ex. Every bit counts.

Edit: a while ago in the Steam OS wishlist thread i hoped for a wine solution baked into Steam itself, but the need for that is diminishing at an astonishing rate.

[Guest]

Very good news, because Civ5 and UFO are very popular games. However, I found them to be very simplified and thus uninteresting. In example civ5 is like 1/5 of Civ:CTP2. I would expect new games to be more complex.. When comes to UFO:EU it has very boring and simplified battles.

[dragonn]

A dream comes true!

Bordelands 2 for Linux - this is only game for now with forces me to use Win 8 sometimes. I really hope this is true .

[Noriandir]

Nice!

It's good to see more and more publishers starting to support Linux. I'll be definitely trying Civ V there.
Currently my only concern and reason for almost not playing anything on my Steam for linux, is graphics drivers. I have a laptop with ATI + Intel graphics and I have problems putting the ATI card to work (forget about catalyst) and the Intel performance isn't that great, so even having about 15 games playable on linux, I still have to use windows in order to play them decently... =/

[who_me]

It's been discussed to pieces on reddit and people arrived at the conclusion that Amazon b0rked. Here's Phoronix not checking facts once again. Yay for click bait!

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming...linux_version/

Microsoft Train Simulator for Linux, are you people mad?!

http://www.amazon.com/Train-Simulato...g_bs_290573_54

[entropy]

It's been discussed to pieces on reddit and people arrived at the conclusion that Amazon b0rked. Here's Phoronix not checking facts once again. Yay for click bait!

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming...linux_version/

Microsoft Train Simulator for Linux, are you people mad?!

http://www.amazon.com/Train-Simulato...g_bs_290573_54

Indeed, I wouldn't trust this Amazon information too much.

Then again, as for Civilization V coming to Linux:
http://store.steampowered.com/living...eamController/

[Guest]

It's been discussed to pieces on reddit and people arrived at the conclusion that Amazon b0rked. Here's Phoronix not checking facts once again. Yay for click bait!

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming...linux_version/

Microsoft Train Simulator for Linux, are you people mad?!

http://www.amazon.com/Train-Simulato...g_bs_290573_54

Civ5 and UFO run on OS X which is a terrible gaming platform, but supports OpenGL. It's very probable those games will be ported to Linux.

[who_me]

Civ5 and UFO run on OS X which is a terrible gaming platform, but supports OpenGL. It's very probable those games will be ported to Linux.

I did not say that they'll never get ported but the "article" is based on what looks to be a screw-up at Amazon. Michael should know better but he never, ever,... ever checks facts. Don't get hyped by stuff you see on Phoronix is all I'm sayin'

[hajj_3]

here are some other rumoured linux games:

Cities In Motion 2: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Citie...n-387589.shtml
Rome Total War II: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Civil...r-387196.shtml