Microsoft Announces Open Halo
After conquering the Console space on the industry leader XBox and XBox360 Microsoft has finally decided to throw their hat into the Linux Gaming space in a big way. http://code.google.com/p/openhalo/ Microsoft thinks its high time some quality open source games are released in the Linux market. Okay, you got me, it's is April 1st after all. Microsoft has no interest whatsoever in open sourcing Halo. Does that mean us Linux users are left Master Chiefless forever? Nope. Not at all. Halo does in fact run in wine and quite well. For more info on how to set it up see: How I got Halo: Combat evolved working on wine 0.9.39 and http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/11/halo-combat-evolved-on-linux-with-wine.html The other method, my preferred method actually, is through a native Linux game. Unreal Tournament 2004. In the now defunct Mod Project Torlan. Halo "feels" a lot better in the UT engine and running natively. Downloads are still up, even if the site is in a state of disrep...