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VUGames e-peition

From:  "MEDIEVALDRAGON Blizzplanet" <clankoh_site-AT-hotmail.com>
To:  webmaster-AT-krombie.net
Subject:  Linux News submission
Date:  Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:07:00 -0400

An e-petition is being started invoking all Linux users to request VUGames 
and Blizzard Entertainment so they  port World of Warcraft to Linux. 
Blizzard has been known in the past for their support to PC and Mac users 
with hybrid games. The aim of the petition is to have a PC/Mac OS X/Linux 
hybrid. Sam Lantinga, developer of the SDL API and ex-employee of Loki, is 
known to be Software Engineer of World of Warcraft since 2001. Among his 
duties in Loki was to port Mac games to Linux.<br><br>

World of Warcraft fans are hoping that the petition may encourage VUGames to 
fund the project. Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, Neverwinter Nights, Return to 
Castle Wolfenstein and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory are among the games that 
have being ported to Linux by other companies. Knowing the wide-reputation 
of Blizzard Entertainment, it would be a boost to the Linux community to 
have a MMORPG of this calibre. NVidia has Linux and FreeBSD drivers, which 
confirms that the Linux platform is becoming fastly a Gaming market.<br><br>

The petition may be found <a href="http://www.blizzpub.net/petition/" 
target="_blank"><b><u>Here</u></b></a>

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