CrossOver Games for Mac (Intel) and Linux released

**the_eternal_dark** · March 27th, 2008, 03:18

I am proud to bring the announcement of the first release of CrossOver Games.

From the Crossover Games website:

Now gamers can play the games they want, on whatever platform they want! With CrossOver Games, you can run many popular Windows games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux PC. Whatever your tastes — first-person shooters, fantasy, strategy, MMORPGs — CrossOver Games provides the capability to run many popular games titles. CrossOver comes with an easy to use, single click interface, which makes installing your games simple and fast. Once installed, your game integrates seamlessly into your Desktop. Just click and run! Best of all, you do it all easily and affordably, without needing a Microsoft operating system license.

CrossOver Games is built on the latest versions of Wine, based on contributions from both CodeWeavers and the open-source Wine community, and then lovingly hand-crafted by Stefan Dösinger, our very own Wine/Games connoisseur. Unlike other CrossOver products, which are aimed primarily at office productivity applications (and hence maximum stability), CrossOver Games aims to bring you the latest, greatest, bleeding edge improvements in Wine technology. This means that the newest games run faster and better under CrossOver than under other versions of CrossOver, or other version of free Wine, for that matter. You want to run your Mom's knitting software? Maybe you should look elsewhere. On the other hand, if you need better framerates on Linux or Mac so you can frag your buddies: check out CrossOver Games!

The list of supported games and apps includes:
Steam
Half-Life 2
Team Fortress 2
CounterStrike 1.6 and Source
World of Warcraft
Guild Wars
Prey
and more

And now for a few screenshots:

Team Fortress 2

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Half-Life 2 Episode 2

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Guild Wars

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World Of Warcraft

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Get the trial here:
CrossOver Games trial signup

Both the full Mac and Linux versions are available for $39.95