Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, a game originally released back in 2003 is being revamped by THQ Nordic and it will include a Linux release.
About the game:
Sphinx and The Cursed Mummy is an original 3rd person action-adventure inspired by the mythology of ancient Egypt. Travelling the world via magical portals to foil the evil plans of Set. Sphinx's Journey will require all his wits, agility, and special powers. He will also rely on his reluctant hero friend, The Mummy, to help when being inconspicuous is the only solution. By finding the stolen magical crowns of Egypt, Sphinx can stop Set and save the world.
They're not just re-relasing the game either, as it has been revamped with some really great sounding changes too. They've rewritten the graphics engine with OpenGL3+, with support for high resolutions, native multi-sampling anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering.
They've also rewritten the audio subsystem, making use of OpenAL Soft with features like realistic distance scaling, together with stereo, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 and HRTF sound output.
It will release on November 10th, but no word on what stores it will be available on just yet.
Really great to see THQ Nordic revamp more titles and bring them to Linux. This isn't the first time either, they also revamped Imperium Galactica II and added Linux support back in January.
You can find the full press release here.
Thanks for the tip Keyrock!
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: GuestIt’s nice but I really would have prefered to get ELEX… :(
Would have liked that too.
Current Wine rating is "garbage" :(
QuoteWe had the Linux version in our hands, but our tests indicated that some rough edges still need addressing before we will be able to release Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy to our dear penguins. Thank you for your patience and sorry for the delay!
Last edited by Shmerl on 10 November 2017 at 3:44 pm UTC
Quoting: GuestQuoting: ShmerlIt's out on GOG now too.Thanks for the info! Do you manually check the games you’re interested in, or do you have an automated way of being informed of new Linux releases on GOG? I wish they had an RSS feed for Linux releases…
There is this project: https://gogdb.yepoleb.me/changelog-ext
But Linux users also post updates in this thread.
Last edited by Shmerl on 17 November 2017 at 4:02 pm UTC
Quoting: GuestThanks. But of course, it’s impossible to subscribe to a thread on the GOG forums…
You can use this feed: https://gogdb.yepoleb.me/changelog.xml
And write an alert script that will notify you if it mentions
Added download .* Linux ;)In fact, thinking of it. We should make some plugin for GOL to pull that feed, and filter data by Linux :) Would be neat to have a widget here on the site listing recent GOG releases.
Last edited by Shmerl on 17 November 2017 at 4:23 pm UTC
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