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The Mighty Buzzard writes:

In further gaming news Master of Orion has added linux support to their third Steam Early Access release [steamcommunity.com]. Highlights of this release are as follows:

• New playable races: Silicoid and Darlok
• Espionage: Train spies and assign them to offensive and defensive missions
• Minor Civilizations: interact with non-starfaring races to gain rewards, including influencing your diplomatic and economic victory paths
• New Victory condition: Fill your coffers and claim economic supremacy by controlling the Galactic Monetary Fund
• Weapon Miniaturization: Improve your legacy weapons by making them smaller and cheaper
• Support for Linux and SteamOS
• New galaxy size: HUGE
• More AI improvements
• Improved Multiplayer
• Improved Tactical Battles
• Improved overall balance: Better suited for both tall and wide empires and with a smoother progression in the late game
• Improved performance (faster turn processing and less hickups when zooming in and out of the galaxy)
• New and improved GNN gags
• By popular demand, we added the option to mute your advisors while still retaining other voiceover audio
• Over 400 bug fixes

we'll see...
Well, Linux-friendly titles have been appearing regularly for a while now. I guess we'll start to see if a dent can be made in Windows's market share on the gaming front. I'm personally not holding my breath but I wouldn't mind being surprised.

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