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Thanks almost single handedly to JohnCarmack and his support of [OpenGL], a number of commercial games come out natively for Unix.
* Anything ID makes (including Quake 1/2/3, Doom 1/2)
* Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2003
-* !NeverWinter Nights (coming soon)
-** Beta 5 is out now for general consumption, the final version will probally be 'beta 7'. it works quite well currently
+* !NeverWinter Nights
-There was a company called Loki that ported many games to Linux. Unfortunately they've gone out of business, so you can't buy their games from them any more. They were responsible for the UT port, as well as Civilization: Call to Power, Myth II: Soulblighter, Railroad Tycoon II, Eric's Ultimate Solitaire, Heretic II, Heroes III, Heavy Gear II, !SimCity 3000, Soldier of Fortune, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Descent3, !MindRover, Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns, Tribes 2, Rune, Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.2 and Postal Plus.
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There was a company called Loki that ported many games to Linux. Unfortunately they've gone out of business, so you can't buy their games from them any more. They were responsible for the UT port, as well as [
Civilization]
: Call to Power, Myth II: Soulblighter, Railroad Tycoon II, Eric's Ultimate Solitaire, Heretic II, Heroes III, Heavy Gear II, !SimCity 3000, Soldier of Fortune, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Descent3, !MindRover, Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns, Tribes 2, Rune, Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.2 and Postal Plus.
There's also a company called [TransGaming|http://www.transgaming.com] who are working on a version of [Wine] called WineX, especially for gaming, which runs a whole heap of cool new games:
* Warcraft III
* Grand Theft Auto 3
-* [Civilisation III
] (Season for 3's, isn't it?)
+* [Civilization
] III
(Season for 3's, isn't it?)
* Black and White
* The Sims
* Everquest
* Jedi Knight II and other Quake 3 engine games
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There are a number of cool [GPL]/free games for Linux:
* [TuxRacer|http://www.tuxracer.com/] (which has a non-GPL windows versions as well)
* BzFlag - a multi-player tank game
-* FreeCiv (originally a clone of [Civilisation
])
+* FreeCiv (originally a clone of [Civilization
])
* XBill! (This is a good game if you want to get [RSI])
* [VegaStrike|http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net] - a space craft fighter/trading game a. la. Elite, Frontier, etc. Still in heavy development but playable.
* FrozenBubble
* TetriNet
