Prey Linux Retail Client Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Prey Linux Retail Client Released

Back in October Ryan Gordon surprised the Linux community by releasing a Linux game demo of Prey two-years after the game began shipping on Windows. He was contracted to port the Prey server to Linux but this was the first time we were seeing any client...

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

[Vadi]

I guess I'll go out and buy a windows box of the game O.o

[Andrea]

Phoronix: Prey Linux Retail Client Released

Back in October Ryan Gordon surprised the Linux community by releasing a Linux game demo of Prey two-years after the game began shipping on Windows. He was contracted to port the Prey server to Linux but this was the first time we were seeing any client...

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

a benchmark between the wine emulation (which runs quite well) and this native client would be quite interesting!

[Milyardo]

Maybe I'll make this my Christmas present instead of SCII.

[skkayman]

I guess I'll go out and buy a windows box of the game O.o

No! Wait for release on tuxgames.com.
We have to support linux games. It costs exactly like windows version here in Slovakia

[Crbz]

This is very nice, Prey is a great game.

But as a heads up, the Steam CD-key does not work with the Linux version. (atleast for me).. . So even if you can use the data files from the Steam install, you still need a boxed version for the key.

[MaestroMaus]

This is very nice, Prey is a great game.

But as a heads up, the Steam CD-key does not work with the Linux version. (atleast for me).. . So even if you can use the data files from the Steam install, you still need a boxed version for the key.

I don't think the ones in the box are different, since you can buy a boxed version and enter your cd key in Steam to gain the copy digitally.

[deanjo]

I guess I'll go out and buy a windows box of the game O.o

Check your local bargin bin. Found mine for $5.

[bugmenot]

Here I was thinking that this was a new game when I read the news, but as it turns out this game was released WAY back in 2006 !!! So its taken 2 years for a ID Tech 4 (which is based on OpenGL) game to be ported to Linux !!

On another matter I see no obvious slowdowns when playing this game with Compiz enabled but sometimes the mouse gets all funny and I can't aim at anything.

[Michael]

So its taken 2 years for a ID Tech 4 (which is based on OpenGL) game to be ported to Linux !!

No, it's been Linux compatible virtually the entire time. Doom 3 has been on Linux for a few years now.