Stories about: Id Software

For this roundtable discussion, I sought out Linux gaming industry folks who were willing to let me pick their brains. Once I had them, I began the discussion by sending them a list of questions to start us off on what I hoped would be a productive chat. Rather than take up precious page space with commentary, I'll take us right to the more interesting bit, the results of this conversation starter...

ID Software have been gracious to release their old games to the community, but for the latest "killer" games you need Windows.

I discovered a third kind of free software recently. We've all heard of "free as in beer" software. It doesn't cost any money, and it may or may not be free according to the Free Software Foundation's definition. The FSF definition is for the "free as in speech" variety, which may or may not cost you money. The new kind of free software is "free as in crack." It doesn't cost any money, but it's deadly addicting. The first example of this new kind of free software that I've found in the wild is Enemy Territory (ET), developed by Splash Damage, published by Activision Inc., and produced by Id Software Inc.

Loki Software has announced an agreement with computer and video game publisher Gathering of Developers to port the PC games Rune and Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.2 to Linux early this year.