Anyway, Venetica is indeed looks promising.

Just a question about Rune Soft Catalog :
- 8th wonder of the world sould have ben ported to Linux, but due to poor sales of Northland, RuneSoft called it off.

Why not try a port of this “budget” game, for 25$ for instance ? RuneSoft has a tool to port a game from Windows to Linux easily, even if some tweaks need to be done.
Northland is very addictive. 8th Wonder of the world with multiplayer would be fine for those liking RTS games.

250 Sales obviously are a joke compared to “Blockbuster Games” like Fallout 3 that sold millions of times.

I bought Ankh and Ankh 2 but due to the lousy port quality I did not bother to buy Jack Keane, although I like the setting more. Additionally I found that the riddles were too easy when I tried the demo of Jack Keane.
I might buy it when the price finally drops or when I happen to have too much money.

Right now there is basically LGP which keeps picking decent games to port, then there is the hope that TTimo at Id Soft ports Rage and also the hope that someone (Icculus maybe?) might port the new Wolfenstein title (pretty unlikely), then there is the hope of eventually getting the UT3 client…. (lol, might become an inside joke like Duke Nukem Forever), Overgrowth will probably be ported by Icculus in his freetime (one of the Wolfire Devs is a friend of Icculus, so he ports their stuff) and then there is also that upcoming game by the Unigine Developers which actually looks quite interesting.
And the only really reliable factor here is probably LGP.
Overgrowth is pretty likely to happen (I talked to John from Wolfire about the port) and if the Unigine guys don’t drop their Linux support, then it’ll probably also happen. I wouldn’t bet anything on future Id titles though (especially due to the whole Zenimax thing) and the UT3 client has just been delayed so ridiculously long, that it doesn’t seem as if “Epic Games” had any interest in actually porting it.
There also is the possibility of Natural Selection 2 being ported. (they use a self written engine and have been watching for portability throughout all their development, there is no plan of a Linux version at release, but if they have time they’d like to see their game on Linux)

Eventually it’s not too bad to not get every game out there, since the general quality of games has dropped rapidly over the past few years, they all have shiny graphics but crappy gameplay.

I wonder if tuxgames or LGP could organize a preorder action like ixsoft did for Ankh and Ankh 2 and also for Jack Keane. That preorder stuff was part of some “More games for Linux” action by Runesoft, Ixsoft and so on, which seems to have stopped now. At least I saw no actions by them whatsoever during the past few months.
What they did back then was getting 250 preorders for each game, so that the game could be ported to Linux.
Ah, well, apparently it was not just that preorder action that was organized by Runesoft, the port was also done by Runesoft, I thought Deck 13 would have ported it.
Uh, well, I just did some research on the Runesoft website and I’m not sure whether they still port or not. They are working on a Mac port of some other Ankh title right now but obviously only for Macs.

So, well, maybe you should take a look at “Venetica” and write some “important LGP business email”?
I’d say that it’s worth investigating.
It’s a role playing game, using a modified version of the Ogre engine.
As far as I know there is no English version yet, but it’ll be released in October, if things go right.