News regarding Linux gaming

 DOOM III for GNU/Linux Released, Oct 05, 2004

ID Software has graced us today with the Linux Demo and Full Version of Doom 3. You can find their new Linux site for Doom 3 with all of the information you'll need to download and install both versions.

I hate to say it [don flame-retardant suit] but Linux gaming sucks. My modern, fast system at home is running Windows XP, people, and gaming is the reason. Okay, it's a glorified X-Box, but who cares - games install and they work. I can play some popular FPS games in Linux (Quake III, UT, America's Army) but where are the other games? Battlefield series? Call of Duty? Warcraft III? Far Cry? SimCity 4?

Computer experts will tell you that Linux software is unbeatable at tasks like scientific supercomputing or corporate number-crunching. But offer to take them on in a rousing round of Empire Earth or some other popular computer game, and watch their faces fall.

Linux is operating system software, code that controls a computer's most basic functions. Microsoft's Windows is the best-known operating system, and there's also Apple's Macintosh OS X. But Linux is something special. Created by volunteers scattered around the world, Linux is available free over the Internet. Yet Linux has been polished to the point where it's become a favorite with corporate and academic users worldwide.

But Linux software is so complex and unfamiliar that few casual users will give it a try. That means there's only a tiny market for Linux computer games. Of course, that means game companies rarely offer Linux versions of their top titles, which means even more consumers avoid Linux computers, and so on.

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