The collaboration between CCP and TransGaming, Inc. we reported on a couple of months back has finally borne fruit. CCP's interstellar MMORPG title, EVE Online, is now available on all three of the most widely used operating systems in the world: Microsoft Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Gamers can now enjoy cross-OS play with other EVE Online players around the world. Learn more at the full article.

Thanks to a deal with TransGaming Inc., CCP games has announced that it will be bringing EVE Online to Mac and Linux platforms later this year. The game joins a growing list of titles available for the Mac platform.

"EVE Online has always ranked highly with our Linux users and there is significant demand for it among other platforms, including the rapidly growing Mac base," said Vikas Gupta, CEO of TransGaming Technologies.

"As EVE takes place within a single-server persistent universe, it's vital that the game is identical in every way across different platforms. This challenge is what makes the partnership with CCP both important and rewarding."

The game is already playable on Linux through the use of TransGaming's Cedega Windows compatibility layer. The new Linux version will have Cedega directly integrated into the game, while EVE Online's Mac version will utilize TransGaming's Cider portability engine.

The romantics maintain that great stories don't have happy endings simply because they just don't end at all. We don't know if the loyal subscribers of Myst Online: Uru Live are romantics themselves, but with this update, we're pretty sure they are about to become one.

GameTap just announced two major developments for the game. First, they mentioned that a new area of the city as well as a never-before-seen Age will be released in the beta phase today, January 19. This is actually important as we all know how the gameplay of the Myst series go: nonstop exploration and puzzle solving all throughout the game's maze-like world.

A new city and a new Age mean more content and more adventure for players.

Furthermore, the publisher also added that a Mac compatible version of the game is currently in active development. While the MMO title is being maintained by Cyan Worlds, TransGaming is handling the move to Mac. It is no secret that the golden era of the Myst series happened on PC around a decade ago. But little do its new fans know that the first installation appeared on the Mac.

So, are you one of them romantics yet? No? Well, we will just have to see about that when Myst Online: Uru Live finally arrives sometime during the early part of this year.

Great news for Linux-using World of Warcraft players! If you heard about WoW's banning of Cedega users, then you can imagine how annoying the whole experience must have been for the Innocent gamers who were only meant to play the game through Linux. The good news is that they've unbanned the Cedega users and apologized for the error.

According to a WorldofWar.net post, Blizzard and TransGaming, Cedega's development team were able to figure out what was going on. Apparently, their anti-cheating software mistakenly read Cedega users as cheaters, causing their accounts to be flagged as third-party software users.

Blizzard has since apologized for the error and the trouble the ban has caused Cedega users, and have reinstated the banned accounts related to the fiasco. As a peace offering of sorts, Blizzard has also credited each unbanned Cedega account with 20 days' free play.

We've posted Blizzard's email for you so you can read the apology and the resolution. In the meantime, Cedega users who are still suffering a ban from WoW ought to check the TransGaming website (sourced below) in order to let your name and account be known by TransGaming and subsequently unbanned.

Interested in the apology letter? Click on "Full Article".

This does not bode well for Linux gamers, and it's a weird coincidence that we hear about this a few days after announcing Wine on the site. It seems that Linux-using World of Warcraft players are getting banned left and right.

Current speculation among the members of the WoW community, Linux and non-Linux alike, is an attempt to ban users of third party software who use said software to cheat the game. Unfortunately, users of Cedega, a Windows programs portability app for Linux, has been picked up as a cheating application by Blizzard, leading to the closing of many accounts of Linux users.

Discussion has been ongoing in the forum of TransGaming, Cedega's developer. Currently, Transgaming is working with Blizzard's engineers to resolve the problem and hopefully get the unjustly banned accounts back into a state of gaming readiness. Till then, however, all we can do is wait for TransGaming and Blizzard to do something about it.