Gameolith Announced Launch Titles

Looks like Michael Larabal of Phoronix has pissed quite a few people off with his coverage, and rightly so since he was being something of an ass:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY2NQ
http://www.phoronix.com/news2forums.php?view=OTY2NQ

Well this is a case of him yet again not doing his research, after all he said 0 A.D is made by wolfire the other day in his article...

I am guessing that is a legitimate typo rather than an actual factual error, since he has demonstrated that he knew the difference in the past. Larabel's real problem when it comes to his Linux gaming coverage is because his hardware review background lends him to still have the Windows mindset about AAA titles and developers, causing him to have a larger blind spot when it comes to Indie titles.

After all, he was late in recognizing the first Humble Indie Bundle (though he never made that mistake again, to be fair), and only ever mentioned Frictional for the first time (aside from Overture as part of the first bundle) about a week before Amnesia's release, when you would have thought they would have been right up his alley. Both Penumbra and Amnesia sport pretty damn impressive graphics for an Indie title (I was just playing through Overture again last night, going to have a go at Black Plague again later today) and the physics implementation one would have thought would be intriguing to him. Instead, he worships Valve and the other big Windows or Console developers and just's prays they come around, rather than celebrating what we do have.

He used to be better, back in the days when he was covering what LGP, Icculus, and TTimo was up to (which granted seemed to be more back then than now, for various reasons) and when he was one of the first to mention the work of IGIOS on Shadowgrounds, which in the end has served us and the community well. But the apparent Indie revolution we have been experiencing seems to have flown straight over his head.

Well gameolith have delayed their release another 24 hours due to paypal problems.

But as with any case the amount of appraisal and success Gameolith will garner will depend purely on the fact of how well they manage to develop a user community around the Store. They need to make an identity for themselves. Desura and the Ubuntu Software Centre have already kissed success on this front and thus they have a strategic advantage over Gameolith.