avoids publishing games similar to popular open source video games. Canceled projects LGP canceled Angry-Pixel project, which was sponsor the creation of a new company for the development of games for Linux. The game Tzar: The Burden of the Crown was considered by Linux Game Publishing to be ported to Linux, but it was rejected due to concerns within the company about its gameplay and after hearing negative comments about the game from the Linux gaming community. On 6 February 2003 LGP released Candy Cruncher to Linux running on computers with Sparc processors, but two years later they removed this information from their website without explanation. On 24 June 2005 LGP released Soul Ride to Linux running on computers with Alpha and Sparc processors. On 30 August 2005 Linux Game Publishing cancelled a contract to publish the Linux version of Northland which is the third game in the Cultures real-time strategy series, because technical issues with the game that Runesoft, who were doing the development work on the port, could not resolve to their satisfaction. However, on 25 January 2006 Runesoft released Northland for Linux, but the multiplayer mode is still not supported. LGP grudgingly dropped support for five PowerPC games.: Candy Cruncher (PowerPC) Gorky 17 (PowerPC) Majesty Gold (PowerPC) NingPo MahJong (PowerPC) Soul Ride (PowerPC) PenguinPlay was a website for Linux gamers, allowing matchmaking for multiplayer games, and social networking. LGP added PenguinPlay lobby for six games: Ballistics Candy Cruncher Jets'n'Guns Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom Majesty Gold Sacred: Gold Edition In October 2012 they informed their customers that the license agreement with Egosoft for X2 and X3 (including Special Edition) had expired and were no longer able to offer these titles to new customers. Unreleased projects A Linux client of World of Warcraft was developed, and negotiations with Linux Game Publishing were under way until Blizzard Entertainment cancelled the project without warning or explanation, even though it was functionally complete and ready to go. Since 2004 Frank C. Earl (also known as svartalf) worked on PowerPC and Athlon64 versions of Ballistics and Soul Ride, but these versions of the games were never released. However, he prepared demo version of Soul Ride for Linux x86_64 for GDC 2003, but this demo is not publicly available. Svartalf was also the lead developer of Disciples II: Dark Prophecy and he worked on PowerPC and x86-64 versions of Disciples II, but