Linux Game Publishing Shuts Down PenguinPlay

[gbudny]

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

NWN for Linux was a terrible version of this game.

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.

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

[Kristian Joensen]

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

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:

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

Here is a Gamespy.com article about the matter.

[gbudny]

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