This news is from early Jan. 2013. I only just recently came across it on Phoronix so here is the news.
According to the article, initially, Blizzard was interested in knowing about the commercial-viability of Linux. I think it will only be a matter of time.Blizzard Entertainment, the game studio behind wildly-popular games like World of Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft, is planning for a Linux game announcement in 2013.
This year is already looking fantastic for Linux-based gaming thanks to so many recent announcements and more being just around the cog in the future.rner. Since Valve's major Linux push with their native Steam Linux client and their continued porting of Source Engine games to Linux, many other game studios have stepped up with Linux interest, especially with the Linux-based Steam console coming in the future.
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