Star Citizen and Civilization: Beyond Earth coming to Linux

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Star Citizen, the most successful crowdfunded game to this day at 41 000 000$+ as well as sporter of the CryEngine, and Civilization: Beyond Earth, the successor to Civilization 5 which has managed to stay in Steam's top ten most played games list ever since it launched in 2010, have been confirmed for Linux. Splendid.

Ya I read this earlier today and it's making me think there's a good chance I'll be making the switch if support keeps popping up by the major companies in the games market.

nice. that will be two more games i will be playing on linux so :D.

Won't be long now before I can dump/ignore MS forever.

Awesome that they are both coming to Linux. Linux is becoming more gamer friendly.

Turns out that Star Citizen is very unlikely to happen on Mac OS. As far as I am aware, Apple is far behind Linux when it comes to OpenGL support. Just look at Metro: Last Light for Mac OS. It doesn't even use OpenGL 4.4 because Mac OS doesn't support it. That, plus Roberts sees Apple as the antithesis to what PCs and PC gaming are all about. What's more, when asked in their weekly developer video about Mac OS support, Eric Peterson and another developer basically laughed and said that PCs running Mac OS need better video cards first. This explains why Crytek went straight for Linux support and skipped Mac OS altogether.

Just one of the thousands of reasons I hate Apple.