{"id":49035,"date":"2013-01-08T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T08:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=49035"},"modified":"2013-01-08T10:36:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T08:36:20","slug":"blizzard-reportedly-porting-to-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/49035-blizzard-reportedly-porting-to-linux","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard reportedly porting to Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard is rumoured to be working on a Linux port, bringing one of the company\u2019s titles to Ubuntu sometime in 2013, according to Phoronix.<\/p>\n<p>The website claims to have heard from a \u201creliable source\u201d with \u201cadditional proof\u201d that at least one of the publisher\u2019s games will make it to Linux this year.<\/p>\n<p>The source also said that Blizzard\u2019s plan is to test the water with Linux gaming, and to see if there\u2019s a future for Blizzard titles on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2012, Valve opened up the beta testing phase for Steam on Linux, adding to a positive-looking future for gaming on the penguin-powered platform.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\" http:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTI2ODE\" target=\"_blank\">Phoronix<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48650-steam-for-linux-beta-open-to-all.html\">Steam for Linux beta open to all<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48761-blizzards-cans-team-deathmatch-for-diablo-3.html\">Blizzards cans Team Deathmatch for Diablo 3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47021-steam-for-linux-beta-launches-with-26-games.html\">Steam for Linux beta launches with 26 games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47211-valve-working-on-an-entirely-new-game-engine.html\">Valve working on an \u201centirely new\u201d game engine<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard said to be preparing a Linux port of at least one title<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":49036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,665,2065,5400,635],"class_list":["post-49035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-blizzard","tag-linux","tag-linux-gaming","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}