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Gamers, Rejoice!
We already touched on gaming on Ubuntu in issue 17 of Ubuntu User , but so much has happened since then! It's not only that Valve continues to push forward, encouraging game developers to include Linux ports of their titles (which is also happening). It's more like everything about gaming on Linux is coming to a head.
Both of the biggest video card manufacturers, NVidia and ATI, are now releasing regularly native Linux drivers, tools, and APIs for their most modern and powerful cards, ready to cash in on the growing Linux gaming market. Nearly every indie developer, and many major labels, now release their titles for all three major platforms: Windows (of course), MacOS X, and Linux. And, finally, benchmarks prove that most multiplatform games have better performance on Linux than on any other operating system [1].
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