Loki Entertainment at LinuxToday

dave writes "It's Loki day at Linux Today. First, we have an interview with the president of Loki. Then, Mike Maher has written an editorial where he laments the lack of games for Linux, and discusses Loki as a possible savior. "

int orders

[Tom]

all Im waiting for is that international orders are possible (via creditcard).

Ive been waiting for civ3 forever. anyone knows whether itll be as configurable as civ2 was?

Civ at EB?

[kfort]

I saw Civ: Ctp at the local EB, so I went in and asked if I could get the linux version. I almost got beat up. Needless to say, I wrote on the website and talked to the district manager, but the district manager had never heard of it either. Is this thing really going to be in stores?

Civ at EB?

[kfort]

yeah, I told him everything I knew and I emailed the main EB people again about it

Civ at Software Ect.

[kfort]

Cool, I'm glad my EB store isn't the only one staffed by jerks. Just wished I had a Software Etc. now. Maybe I can get it at Best Buy.

Games for Linux

[GeeWiz]

I for one wouldn't mind having more Games for Linux. There's a whole Windows partition waiting to be ext2 formatted and mounted as /games... :-)

Regards, Jochen

All you need to know about "Mike Maher"

[nickm]

Mike Maher is a frat-brat type who, during LinuxWorld, acted like a complete git and then bragged about it to the world. He published a slanderous story about a friend of mine, in which he claimed that his Red Hat business cards were getting him laid.

This boy is pure sleaze.
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For anyone who wants the right URL

[MichaelKVance]

It's http://www.gamecellar.com . The article has it botched.

M. Vance
Loki Entertainment

Civ at EB?

[fishbowl]

"District Manager?"
Perhaps the next step should have been to
make the guy "aware". *WE* know. So give them
the information we have...

Rules of retail:

#1. The customer is right.
#2. When the customer is wrong, see #1.


I wish Subway (The sandwich shops) would realize this...

Look up "publish" in a dictionary.

[deeny]

Look up *slander* in a dictionary. Slander is usually spoken, but also includes limited-audience written works such as emails.

Mike Maher most assuredly did slander a friend of Nick's and mine; I expect there will be a lawsuit filed in fairly short order with Red Hat (who has acted abysmally) as a co-defendant.

Funny how the "friends of Mike" are anonymous cowards, isn't it?

_Deirdre

Games for Linux

[Bad Mojo]

I'm not so sure I totally agree. Will having more games published for Linux not encourage the attitude of `Linux is Windows, cept better'. I like having Win98 as a dedicated gaming OS, personaly. And I could see taking Linux and forming a `gaming' distribution. That might rock, also. But I don't think Linux becoming the jack-of-all-trades OS is a Good Thing(TM).

Games are an important good thing

[Kirby]

I think that this could be an important step in gaining home Linux users. I know many people that are Unix people at work, prefer it as an OS, and run Windows at home. Why? They have no illusions that they could get better free operating systems. But Windows has better games. (This is a big reason, IMO, why the Macintosh didn't win a lot of home audience either.)

Personally speaking, I didn't install Linux until very recently (last week! Got a working debian system now!) despite the fact that I've been a professional Unix/Perl person for some time. The impetus was the purchase of a shiny new Windows laptop, which made the desktop 'expendable'. While I plan on playing with WINE soon, I wasn't willing to give up the ability to play games - I could do most of my cool Unix stuff by telnetting into a real machine I had an account on.

For someone to switch to Unix, even a geek or protogeek, there has to be some reason for them to go to the effort. For many, the challenge is enough, or anti-microsoft sentiment, or being part of a growing community, or what have you. But geeks and protogeeks like games, and it'd be helpful for the growth of linux if this was one less obstacle to overcome.

I think Civ will convince a lot more users to try Linux than Applix ever will.

Civ at EB?

[Siege]

I try to avoid shopping at Electronics Boutique. The name of the store just says "sold on showiness" (the only electronics I see are joysticks, oddly enough)... and they sure do offer a lot of showy do-nothing titles... Not that another software shop would fill their shelves with better, of course, but that name has pretensions of being a little bit classier than what they are.