GOG Officially Confirm Their Galaxy Client For Linux, Plus More News

By Andrew - 15 October 2014 at 12:42 pm UTC

GOG ran a Twitch live stream where they talked about the future of GOG and their Galaxy client. The main news is that they officially confirmed a Linux version!

Linux version of GOG Galaxy confirmed!
http://t.co/kDEFgFhA0K
— GOGcom (@GOGcom) October 14, 2014

They are also now giving away Aliens vs Predator Classic 2000 to anyone who signs up, but that's not likely for Linux. This will be a stress-test for the online component of Galaxy. It may be worth trying it out in Wine if you can't hold off for a Linux-compatible game to come out with Galaxy support.

Another tidbit is this:

On-line multiplayer support for classic games planned as GOG Galaxy feature- confirmed on http://t.co/kDEFgFhA0K
— GOGcom (@GOGcom) October 14, 2014

It will be interesting to see what Linux-compatible classics are able to use this when Galaxy launches and I can't wait to see!

They also reached 100 Linux games on their store, woo! They added a bunch of new and classic games to the collection with Linux support, nice. I look forward to re-playing the classic Baldur's Gate 2 Complete.

<3 GOG

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Editorial, GOG

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Baggypants Oct 15, 2014

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Quoting: BaggypantsThe irony of GOG having a givaway promoting a linux compatible client but not having AvP for linux when the source code is available on Github.

Feel free to comment to them about it here: http://www.gog.com/news/ask_us_anything_on_twitch
I'm not familiar with that game. Was the engine open sourced?

https://www.icculus.org/avp/

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Xylemon Oct 16, 2014

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From what I understand AvP has its source on Github, so it's entirely possible they're planning to do it but that's really wishful thinking. I've always loved this game, so I hope we can get a native client rather than a wine wrapper or just running it through wine.

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pd12 Oct 16, 2014

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Yay =D

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Kallestofeles Oct 16, 2014

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Quoting: kidoI have one question: if I buy the game on GOG I can get a key for Steam?

Like user sonic said, unfortunately not. However some games are activate-able on GOG when they have been purchased on Steam earlier like The Witcher1/2.

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PublicNuisance Oct 16, 2014

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Quoting: GoCorinthiansTnx, but STEAM FTW! I dont really like patching games by myself!

To each their own. I don't like feeling as if I don't really own a game which is why I prefer GOG over Steam.

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