Windows Games Semleassly in Linux With Codeweavers
Once again, Codeweavers delivers a product that owns. I have been using the Crossover Office product for the past coupe years, and it keeps getting better and better with every release. Well I just got an email that introduced the “Gaming” product they have released for Linux and Mac. Can you say “bad ass mofo”? Below is a list of supported games:
- World of Warcraft
- EVE Online
- Guild Wars
- Prey
- Steam Games, including:
- Half-Life 2
- Team Fortress 2
- Counterstrike
- Counterstrike: Source
- Civilization IV
- Peggle Extreme
- Call of Duty 2
- Max Payne 2
- Grand Theft Auto 2
I will be giving this a try this week and posting the outocome, but if it’s anything like their office product, then I will be thoroughly impressed. Sure you can use Wine of ocourse, but their application has a great interface, and management. You can great a different wine bottle for each instance of every application to make it easier to manage. Here is a screenshot fo the installer for games:
Definitely try it out if you like the latest apps. They have a trial, and it’s a great project to support.
cheers,
~j
Interesting. I had a friend that swore by this and was a Mac user. I tried Cedega briefly at some point but I really am mostly a console gamer at this point and I didn’t find Cedega’s user friendliness to be a vast improvement over Wine considering that many of the games I wanted to play didn’t work. I’ll be interested to hear how you fare. In related news, I need to stalk you guys at a Loco meetup again soon…