Looks as if Wine users will be able to enjoy the fun filled bliss that comes from playing a blistering game of Half-Life 2. Linux gamers all over must be loving this. Sounds like a magical dream that is too good to be true, I think that this could potentially be the start of something wonderful.

As more and more games work with Wine and in some cases right off of the Linux partition, gamers are deleting their Windows partitions by the thousands. I only hope that before they decided to do this they remembered to save all of their Tux wallpapers from the Windows desktop. ;o)

TransGaming Technologies, the world’s leading developer of software portability products, today announced unprecedented Linux support for this year’s most highly anticipated video game, Valve Software’s Half-Life 2. On the heels of its commercial debut, TransGaming’s Cedega product will run Half-Life 2 on the Linux operating system, right out-of-the-box.

Half-Life 2 is the anxiously awaited sequel to Valve’s debut title that won more than 50 game-of-the-year awards. Half-Life 2 is poised to repeat or even break historic records for video game sales. This sequel picks up where the original Half-Life left off and delivers even greater suspense and challenge for gamers. The new Valve Source engine technology, specifically designed for Half-Life 2, allows players to enter a new and heightened realm of game responsiveness and realism where they interact like never before with the physical environment and the characters.