Linux Game Publishing Shuts Down PenguinPlay

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Originally Posted by elanthis

Similar to how GameSpy recently cut service for many "classic" games (NWN being one dear to Linux users), then shut down completely..

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NWN for Linux was a terrible version of this game.

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Originally Posted by elanthis

Making a company that _buys_ rights to port games to a platform with a comparatively tiny market share is just daft, and this conclusion was pretty much foregone.

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Linux Game Publishing established in the time, when many game companies wanted stop make games for Linux.

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Originally Posted by elanthis

Similar to how GameSpy recently cut service for many "classic" games (NWN being one dear to Linux users), then shut down completely.

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You are thinking about two different GameSpy's here. The MP services company was before GameSpy.com the gaming news site shut down recently, according to Wikipedia:

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GameSpy was acquired by IGN Entertainment in March 2004. GameSpy Technologies (the entity responsible for GameSpy multiplayer services) was then bought from IGN Entertainment by Glu Mobile in August 2012,[4] and proceeded in December to rise integration costs and shut down servers for many older games, including Star Wars: Battlefront, Sniper Elite and Neverwinter Nights,with no warning to developers or consumers, much to the outrage of communities of those games

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Here is a Gamespy.com article about the matter.

It's a terrible news that CEO of LGP probably is spending more time on developing and publishing games as DarkArts Studios instead porting games to Linux as LGP:

http://www.darkarts.co.za/peg-solitaire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3OFqfJ7G-I

https://www.facebook.com/DarkArtsStudios