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CrossOver Games 7.2.0 for Linux Released

Support for Spore, new version of Wine and many improvements.

By Marius Nestor, Linux Editor

27th of February 2009, 06:59 GMT

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Jeremy White from CodeWeavers announced last night in a press release the immediate availability of CrossOver Games 7.2.0 for the Linux and Macintosh operating systems. The new version comes as a bug fix release for the previous versions, but it also brings some interesting features. One of these new additions will be the formal support for the Spore game. CrossOver Games 7.2.0 is now based on the latest stable version of Wine and it includes improved support for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and the latest Steam client.

"I am happy to announce that we have now released version 7.2.0 of CrossOver Games, for both the Mac and for Linux. This new version adds formal support for Spore, and has a wide range of improvements for Steam and Steam based games. We've also incorporated a pretty far ranging set of improvements that should improve game play across a wide range of games. [...] Also I want to remind folks that with CrossOver Games, we do try to make bleeding edge releases available." - said Jeremy White in the press release.

Highlights of CrossOver Games 7.2.0:

· Updated Wine to latest version;
· Compiz and Steam were fixed;
· City of Heroes receives a couple of improvements;
· The support for Spore was improved;
· The support for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King was improved;
· The latest version of the Steam client was improved;
· Many DirectX improvements, which will enhance some of the games.

CrossOver Games 7.2.0 will allow you to install and play popular Windows games on your Linux box. Among these we can notice:

· EVE Online
· Guild Wars
· Half-Life
· World of Warcraft

Grab the CrossOver Games 7.2.0 trial installer right now from Softpedia.

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