HOI IV!? My prayers have been answered. Cities in Motion I & II are already out, and Runemaster looks...pretty awesome.

I blew my entertainment budget for a whole month last spring to buy Crusader Kings 2, both because I wanted to play a Paradox GS game again, and to show Paradox that we are a valuable audience. I don't regret my purchase of it, or CIM, or EU IV.

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That Gamespot video, which is a great promo for the Steambox and EU IV, is mostly about the Steam controller, but the info about Linux sales for Paradox is spot on.

Ever since the first Humble Bundle, developers have certainly noticed that Linux users are hungry for games, and I consider Steam's entrance into the market as the best thing to happen to our favorite OS since, oh, I don't know, Ubuntu?

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I dual boot as well, but I play over 90% of my games on Linux...

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Obviously, Paradox saw encouraging enough results from their Linux version of Crusader Kings II, that they released their flagship title Europa Universalis IV for Windows, Mac and Linux on the same day, and have released Linux ports of both Cities in Motion games.

I had predicted 2013 as The Year of Linux Gaming a year ago, and I think I underestimated just how big Steam's push would be. Certainly the Humble Bundles opened quite a few eyes.

2014 is going to be Very Special, with Wasteland 2 and Pillars of Eternity finally reaching download status, not to mention the still-beta Planetary Annihilation.

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I'm a backer, and it's looking good for around six months more on this amazing remake.

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Quoting: CheoghIf you have the Diamond edition dvd. The downloads still work, I just checked.

wget -c http://nwdownloads.bioware.com/neverwinternights/linux/gold/nwclientgold.tar.gz [External Link]
wget -c http://nwdownloads.bioware.com/neverwinternights/linux/161/nwclienthotu.tar.gz [External Link]
wget -c http://files.bioware.com/neverwinternights/updates/linux/169/English_linuxclient169_xp2.tar.gz [External Link]

mkdir ~/nwn
cd ~/nwn
unzip /media/NW_DIAMOND/Data_Shared.zip
unzip /media/NW_DIAMOND/Data_linux.zip
unzip -o /media/NW_DIAMOND/data/XP1.zip
unzip -o /media/NW_DIAMOND/data/XP2.zip
tar -vxzf ~/nwclientgold.tar.gz
tar -vxzf ~/nwclienthotu.tar.gz
tar -vxzf ~/English_linuxclient169_xp2.tar.gz
./fixinstall
./nwn

This page:
http://social.bioware.com/forThis [External Link] page:
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/187/index/4643217 [External Link]

has complete instructions for the full installation, including the movies. I followed the instructions to the letter, and it works for me. 

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I don't even remember buying DOTA 2, but there it was in my Windows Steam library, and it's a pretty nifty game; of course, I only boot into Windows about once a week. Linux DOTA 2 will allow me to compete against my nephew.

And get my ass kicked...

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Guncraft is the one that looks good to me. I am a happy Steam for Linux customer.

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