Woo hoo!
Hail the conquering hero!
No longer is COD4 point and click monkey only!
Call of Duty 4 has finally been patched to work on Linux. As such INX-Gaming are now offering Call of Duty 4 game servers with instant setup!
Right now I am distributing this to all our servers, and our backend.
All customers should hopefully within the next few hours be able to switch to COD4 via the control panel.
For news and updates, please keep an eye on this forum thread.
I hate to sound like a stuck record on one of those WW2 fps maps, but why do us Linux guys get such a hard deal?
Call of Duty 4 is fantastic. However, it’s in danger of going the same way as Insurgency…ETQW. Those other games that had that potential to live up to something great.
And my gripe in the case of COD4….No sodding linux server files, again.
Did the COD boys not learn from their former ties with Medal of Honour? The Medal of Honour Airbourne farce is covered in such great detail across the net, it really needs no introduction. For those in the dark, picture a recurring nightmare for Linux game server providers.
IMO, and let it be known in my very humble opinion, games make or break in the first week. It’s that first week the rush of people playing online, and hooked, begins.
What is continously letting publisher (shareholder) profits down is:
For crying out loud. We don’t all rent Windows licenses, slap on a copy of <insert well known popular windows control panel, which GSP brands as GSP-Name-Panel and passes off as their own>, and pass ourselves off as game server gurus.
Some of us love understanding how things work.
We adore the open source.
We <3 performance.
We aren’t point and click-monkies.
Some of us don’t particularly want to use Windows. Give us a command line any day.
An awful lot of us don’t want to host Windows, we want Linux.
Which, BTW is why COD 4 servers aren’t listed on the website yet.
So now, you know why 
- inx|Olly
Socks. Socks, socks, more socks. Always with the socks.
OK, it’s not as bad as that really, but a good habit is to buy yourself a game that you like for Christmas. Or that dull but stressful bit of pre-Christmas December where you’re waiting for Christmas to arrive.
I was scouring Amazon when I realised that we have got an impressively good lineup ahead. An annoying facet of the games industry is that there are far more sales at Christmas than any other time of year, that the same game released in January will simply not do as well as the same game released in November. If you release in February may god help you. If you release in March god cannot help you.
Did I say annoying? I must have meant for the developers. Surely not for die hard horror fans: this month alone we have Jericho (cross platform) and Hellgate: London (PC only). FEAR Files will finally be bringing the FEAR Extraction Point and FEAR Perseus expansion packs to the Xbox 360. Sci-fi roleplaying games are also going to leave their footprint with Mass Effect.
For something a bit more mainstream, anyone who has played Midway Games’ Blacksite: Area 51 demo will testify that it’s a squad based FPS done really, really well: it looks, plays, and feels like a fantastic example of the genre. If shooting aliens doesn’t appeal as much as gunning down terrorists then Activision’s Call of Duty IV is all set to bring the franchise to an all time high. And what if Assassin’s Creed lives up to the considerable hype surrounding this… first example of a “free runner”? Assassin’s Creed looks like it will combine the best bits of sneaking games with the leaping and climbing associated with the Prince of Persia and Devil May Cry games. If you think that running away after a kill is too wussy then you can ruin their day (and probably their lives) in Eidos’ psychotic squad based combat game Kane and Lynch: Dead Men.
Of course if you want to be a more traditional hero then just strum away in Guitar Hero III.
- John
Play nice. Because it’s Christmas 