According to the Golem.de interview with the developers of the upcoming browser MMORPG game Drakensang Online from the German company BigPoint, a GNU/Linux client (as well as a MacOSX client) is planned to be released two months after the Windows one.

Don’t let the “browser based game” name fool you, Drakensang Online offers a remarkable graphics even for non-browser games due to the FOSS (MIT) Nebula-3 Engine , and better yet – the game is free2play !

Drakensang Online is a Diablo style hack-n-slash game that will feature PvE and PvP gameplay inside the browser, keeping the client at 5MB and the loading zones no more then 25MB.

Drakensang Online is planned for the 2nd Quarter of 2011.

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Golem.de interview

Drakensang Online

BigPoint

Thanks Reto Schneider, one of the editors of Holarse-Linuxgaming and the owner of the GNU/Linux Fun4Tux gaming shop for the great news.

