Ok so this is the BOMB. The hands down most fun coop shooter franchise of recent years.

... But maaan, what I would give to see "Linux" after that "Grand Theft Auto 5" entry... :)

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My favourite this year is easy. Xcom: Enemy Unknown, without a shadow of doubt.

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"On completion of the proposed acquisition, the Homefront team from Crytek's Nottingham studio would transfer their talents to Koch Media in compliance with English law and continue their hard work on upcoming shooter, "Homefront: The Revolution". Both parties hope to finalize and implement a deal soon."

Source: http://crytek.com/news/crytek-share-new-details-on-their-plans-for-the-future [External Link]

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Quoting: SslaxxThat was there pre-acquisition, was it not?

Oh - I don't know. Was it always supposed to be distributed by them? Ahhh... Bummer. Well then I guess we're back to square one.

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Well, at the very least on Deep Silvers homepage they got a banner saying "Homefront Revolution: Coming to Xbox One, Playstation 4, PC, Mac and Linux in 2015".

http://www.deepsilver.com/home/ [External Link]

So there's definitely hope.

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Who's trolling the devs here? This is merely a place for exchange of opinion.

A lot has changed in 30 years. Heck, in regards to gaming a lot has changed only the past few years. The term "PC" in gaming context stems from the time there was only one relevant gaming OS on x86 architecture. Now there's three.

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lave, interesting post, but I respectfully disagree.

A couple of comments on your two points:

a) There's very few multiplayer games who has frustrated me as a noob more than DOTA2. Bear in mind that I've never played a moba before so I am a 100% noob, but the whole concept of letting your minions do the groundwork and just go for the final blow yourself was just annoying to me, and felt so unnatural.
Also it felt utterly overwhelming with all the items to buy/choose from, setting up a transport to the store and all that stuff along the levelling route, not to mention the ridiculous amount of heroes to choose from. In short: I think UT (or COD for that matter) is a much, *much* more accessible and less frustrating game for a noob than DOTA.

b) The most popular mainstream multiplayer FPS today is COD. And that franchise keeps owning the multiplayer fps throne despite lacking any major tournaments etc. It's just a bunch of player hosted quick games - very similar to UT.

There's one major difference though: In COD you got the grinding to unlock weapon mods and skills. That's an incentive to keep going that lacks in UT. It would be sweet if they add something similar to UT, although one of the sweet things about UT is exactly this, it's all up to your skills and not your unlocks.

We'll see how it goes, but I sincerely *hope* there still is room for UT in the gaming landscape.

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Well yeah we got a few of those, I've tried a couple built on the good old Quake engine. And no disrespect to those projects, but in my humble opinion we really, really need more than that.

So, I'm really excited for this release. For me UT beats COD, Battlefield, Crysis and the likes in sheer plain fun factor. Can't wait to double jump around with my good old flak cannon and shock rifle once again! :)

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I think it's time devs stop calling Windows for "PC". Heck, even Macs are based on the same architecture today.

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Do we really have a lot of *good* fast paced shooters on Linux? Modern, top tier multiplayer shooters?

I can't from the top of my head recall a single one right now, not if we define "good" as a modern game with a metascore of at least 80 and released within the last 4-5 years or so...?

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