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Sorry guys as some of you obviously know I'm still new to the world of linux. I've been getting a better understanding of it and I'm thinking of making it my OS now that I'm becoming more familiar with it. Though I have a few concerns and one of them is will all my games still be able to work on a linux OS. It's obvious that games like CS work though what about games like Warcraft ect. If they do work do I need to install extra drivers or anything?

Not exactly a know-all myself, but my suggestion is stick to Windows if you want to play games.. Just have it standing by somewhere, ready to boot up when required. It's a pain, yes, but you're only alternative as far as I can see would be something like this: http://www.transgaming.com/products_linux.php

Because many games are designed only for windows as it's the biggest market opening, you won't be able to play them with linux, altough some developers have taken linux into consideration (doom, simcity, wolfenstein).. But not that many.
For a list of linux compatible and native linux games, have a look here: http://www.transgaming.com/news.php?newsid=33

No Warcraft though.

the answer is: No
Windows programs will not run on linux.

At least not without a lot of help. And then most of then won't run as well.

Also check out: http://www.winehq.com/

if you like games...stick with windows.some programes made for windows work work in linux,but only with the help of some kind of programes ...

while most games will run ok, some might have either critical bugs (instable, evil grafic bugs like... black screen ) or not start at all (copy protection, missing/incompatible library).
The commercial version of cedega runs most copy protections and they do effort to keep it that way, but even if a game "runs" in linux, often you have to patch them on windows .