CodeWeavers Releases Crossover Games 8.0 for MAC and Linux

[Syanide]

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Written by Tom Wickline

Wednesday, 02 September 2009 09:50

Latest Release Features Support for Left4Dead, Tales of Monkey Island

"Zombies need to die," CEO proclaims.

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (September 2, 2009) CodeWeavers, Inc., a leading developer of software products that turn Mac OS X and Linux into Windows-compatible operating systems, today announced the release of CrossOver Games 8.0 for both Mac and Linux, available immediately. CrossOver Games allows Windows games to be played on Mac and Linux PCs without the need for a Windows operating system license.

CrossOver Games 8.0 adds support for Left4Dead and Tales of Monkey Island (Steam version only). Other titles include Perfect World International's games Perfect World, Jade Empire, and Ether Saga, as well as Aeria Games' Dragon Sky, Shaiya (English versions only), and unofficial support for their Last Chaos title on Linux. In addition, numerous fixes and enhancements for Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Spore, Guild Wars, Civilization IV, Bejeweled and unsupported titles such as EVE Online, Lord of the Rings Online, Pharaoh, City of Heroes and Lego Starwars have been added.

"Perhaps the biggest news in this release is support for Left4Dead, the incredibly popular first-person shooter," said Jeremy White, president and CEO of CodeWeavers. "And, before all you zombie-rights people start getting on my case, I'd just like to state for the record that CodeWeavers is an equal-opportunity employer, and we're certainly in favor of equal rights for zombies everywhere. But having said that, and speaking personally, I'm quite pleased the game runs as well as it does under CrossOver. Because zombies need to die. Especially hunters."

CrossOver Games is available for purchase directly from CodeWeavers and its authorized resellers. It is a download-only product. The cost for the product is $39.95, which includes 12 months of free product support and software updates.

About CodeWeavers

Founded in 1996 as a general software consultancy, CodeWeavers today focuses on the development of Wine, the core technology found in all of its CrossOver products. The company's goal is to bring expanded market opportunities for Windows software developers by making it easier, faster and more painless to port Windows software to Mac OS X and Linux. CodeWeavers is recognized as a leader in open-source Windows porting technology, and maintains development offices in Minnesota, the UK and elsewhere around the world. The company is privately held. For more information about CodeWeavers, log on to www.codeweavers.com.

Change Log For CrossOver Games

8.0.0 CrossOver Games - September 2, 2009

Improved behavior of the Steam game store

Fixed several problems with memory management -- this should fix TF2 crashes, among others.

Enabled Shader Model 2.0 and 3.0 by default

New supported games:

Dragon Sky

Last Chaos

Jade Empire

Ether Saga

Perfect World

Left 4 Dead

Tales of Monkey Island

Shaiya (Though only in non-English versions, for DRM reasons)

Fixed various regressions in:

Half-Life 2

Team Fortress 2

Spore

Guild Wars

Civilization IV

LOTRO (unsupported)

EVE (unsupported)

Pharaoh (unsupported)

City of Heroes (unsupported)

Lego Star Wars (unsupported)

Bejeweled

Download: Free trial

Screenshots

Official site/product details: codeweavers.com

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[d4v1d05]

I've always wanted to be able to play games on my Media Access Controller... Thanks for the update, but I think you meant for Mac and Linux...

[Syanide]

The original article formatted it like that, I just copied it, sorry.

[Udedenkz]

I can understand MA, but why Linux ?

[Syanide]

  Udedenkz said:

I can understand MA, but why Linux ?

I'm not sure if I catch your drift...

[Udedenkz]

  Symod said:

I'm not sure if I catch your drift...

Target audience for Windows vs Mac vs Linux.

[Syanide]

There are people playing games on Linux, I'm pretty sure that if they didn't make any profit, they wouldn't release it.

PC gaming in general is dying, and the biggest games right now (let's see, WoW, CoD, L4D...) run without a problem on Linux, plus you don't need a Windows licence.

I'm not saying it's a huge market, but it's still a market -- these guys have just figured a way to make the transition easier for the casual gamer.

[MulletRobZ]

Blast it! Doesn't work for PPC Macs! :(

[Rudy]

Crossover started on Linux way before they moved to OSX

[Ci7]

  Symod said:

There are people playing games on Linux, I'm pretty sure that if they didn't make any profit, they wouldn't release it.

PC gaming in general is dying, and the biggest games right now (let's see, WoW, CoD, L4D...) run without a problem on Linux, plus you don't need a Windows licence.

I'm not saying it's a huge market, but it's still a market -- these guys have just figured a way to make the transition easier for the casual gamer.

you the part about pc gaming is dying is bull****

:angry:

not anytime soon

[tiagosilva29]

I think CodeWeavers is a pretty cool guy. eh delivers compatibility, fixes for Wine and doesn't afraid of anything...

[Growled Member]

Time for an upgrade, I think. Crossover is pretty cool stuff.

[ichi]

  tiagosilva29 said:

doesn't afraid of anything...

That press release was awesome :rofl: