Do you mean stuff like Tf2, Halflife 2, etc?

Some of them work in linux with cedega or WINE (I use wine, but i didn`t test games yet.)
Search for the "Wine app database", there is a list of how good aplications work / what you need to configure to make it work.


I hope that helps a bit.

Sort of. Some windows games work under Wine. Some popular games have a native Linux version avaliable, such as World of Goo. Also, try some of the more popular open source games such as Super Tux Racer, and (my favourite) Frozen Bubble. If the game you want to use doesn't work under Wine, you could always try purchasing CrossOver Games. Supposedly, they support more games than Wine.

It really does depend on what you want to play. I, personally, play Eve Online. I love the game, and it has a linux client. It is not perfect, but it works on my machine just fine. In fact, the only computer that I can't play Eve on is my Mac, because it is four years old.

I like FPS game, you can search many free, open source FPS game at google.

Games on Linux usually fall into one of three categories:

1) Open source games. These are the easiest to get hold of as they usually can be found in the repositories for your favourite distro. To see a recent list of popular open source games, find a gaming oriented distro like the linux-gamerz live disk or the fedora games project and look at their latest list of included games. Ideally all games will one day fall under this category.

2) Native commercial games. These are popular titles that have a native linux version or installer. You can get a reasonably decent list of these at Tux Games [url]http://www.tuxgames.com/[/url]. Playing games from this category is the second best situation, although not open source, sales from tux games count towards Linux sales and may encourage developers to port more games to Linux.

3) The translation layers. This means using a system like wine to run Windows applications. This can be a bit hit and miss, some games will run perfectly with no tweaking, some require going to a lot of trouble to get working well, some flat out won't work. The top three solutions in this area are wine, cedega and crossover office. I believe each maintains a compatibility list which can be a great help getting games working. I personally have had great success in the past with world of warcraft, starcraft and others (actually I think Blizzard games in general are pretty good). Wine is developing at a crazy speed so experiences with a game might be very different if tried a montth or so later. I personally see this as a stop gap measure which is good for enticing players and therefore market share to Linux until the gaming studios start porting games to category 2 and 1.

I hope this helps

Yes possibly through wine, depending on which game.
Sources: [url]http://www.winehq.org/[/url]

yeah bad scene

Take a look at [url]http://appdb.winehq.org/[/url] where you can search for lots of items, including many popular games. People will have tested them using various distributions and wine versions and given comments, ratings and help. You will be suprised just how many games work really well under wine!

Gaming industry now has realized the importance of Linux and Free/Open Source Software so you will definately see more and more games coming to linux

This question could go several ways, but if you want to get at the new blockbuster releases as soon as they come out then no, Linux isn't your best choice.

However there are many games made for Linux, and many many more capable of running under WINE and it's many derivatives (Cedega, etc. ).

I'm not trying to be a pessimist, but if you're looking for the newest releases every month ( I haven't been for years, so it doesn't bother me). You'll likely still want to keep a Win partition or virtual machine around somewhere.

mm~