It's weird they don't mention Uridium, since that's exactly the game their throwback is throwing back to. I just fired up Uridium again the other day for a spin, and daaang it's smooth.

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This is multiplayer, so not my thing. I do have fond memories of playing the Loki port of Heavy Gear 2 on Linux back in the early 2000s though.

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Quoting: hardpenguinThey already confirmed last year that Deus Ex MD will be their first Vulkan title (that they will add Vulkan support for the game in Spring 2017).

I don't think they specified which game it'd be for, but it was during a Deus Ex livestream, which might have lead people to conclude this.

EDIT: Beaten to it by Quickdraw Ellie.

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I imagine my Driving Force GT wheel rumbling itself into the foetal position with this game.

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Quoting: Kalman98

Quoting: PieGamer314I was literally about to get this game, and then I did a little bit of research on the ACLU. The first paragraph on wikipedia was enough for me. I'm not even paying one cent for Fez, no matter how good it looks, if they're giving the money to the ACLU.

Same. The game looks amazing, but the ACLU doesn't deserve my money. It's a real shame, as I'd love to play this, but I don't have money to spare on buying it full price at the moment.

"The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization[5][6] whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States."[7] It works through litigation, lobbying, and community empowerment."

This is bad, why exactly?

I'd have thought users of free software would be all about civil rights.

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There's an HD remake of this on the way. Wonder if they have Linux plans.

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If you're into this sort of thing, might I also recommend checking out "Hadean Lands" [Steam, Itch.io ] - a brilliant brain bender/breaker of note.

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Quoting: Guest1) you don’t know before buying if the game requires Steam or not.
2) you need a working Steam client to download the games (as opposed to a web browser). There is steamcmd too, that’s a second option, but it’s another closed-source non-standard tool.

Fair enough on #2, but for #1 I give you: http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80No i mean the steam.api file that the game will not start with unless its there that would be copy protection well unless you happen to be using a "special" version possibly by codex

Totally optional for a developer to use. For example:

The game "Kelvin and the Infamous Machine" game directory contains only two files:

- infamous_machine.jar
- InfamousMachine.sh

You can copy the directory anywhere, and launch the .sh without Steam even being installed.

Most AAA games will likely use the DRM though.

It's even possible to build your game such that it'll use it (for Steam features) if present, or not use it if libsteam_api.so is not present.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Do you use steam to play said games because if you do you are already using a DRM system.

Steam does have DRM that developers can use, but it's not a DRM system by default. My own game, as an example, after buying and downloading it via Steam, you can make a tarball of the game dir and send it to your grandmother and it will work fine.

If you consider the "buying and downloading" part of the process to be DRM, well then GoG is also DRM to you.

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