This looks awesome. I'm definitely picking this up. Looks very much like Car Wars, I game I used to love.

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Wishlisted! People are complaining that's it's too simple and Arcade like. Sounds perfect to me...I don't like these over complex never ending simulations, but I love space games

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Happy BDday GOL!

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To Be Announced

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It's always good news when a new engine comes to Linux. The more choice, the greater the chance developers will support our platform.

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No you're not alone, I think that games should have higher quality content and be shorter, instead of offering more watered down content. But there are many gamers out there with nothing else to do in their lives that complain very very loudly when they think games are too short, and so they perpetuate this cycle.

That said, I've only just scratched the surface of PoE and haven't yet played W2, so I'm looking forward to updated versions. In fact, I rarely play games on release as I find they usually get much better after a few rounds of patches and improvements.

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Can't ever see it becoming "the future of gaming" though, usually when people say something is "the future", it goes the way of laserdisc and betamax.

I think VR will have a big impact on gaming, remember we are only seeing it in its infancy. Once PCs are fast enough to cope with the dual rendering and provide a lag free, nausea free experience, it will be something impressive. From my experience of VR so far, fast paced games don't work (you feel sick), but slowish, exploratory games (e.g. the bulk of point and click, horror, even strategy) have the potential to be amazing. In VR, you feel like you are really there. I played a bit of half life 2 on the DK1, and while the visuals where blurry and pixelated I still remember that feeling of actually being in city 17. The only problem is, you notice graphical artefacts so much more.

Betamax and laser discs were just media for archiving. VR gives you a whole new sensory experience...it's better than 3D cinema by far, if done properly.

Also, don't forget cinema. Wildlife documentaries in 360 degree VR film are going to be amaaaaaaaazing

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This is totally crap. I bought the DK1 and DK2. DK1 Linux support was OK, but not quite as good as Windows, however it still allowed me to develop a simple experience in VR that I showed at various events. I got the DK2 based on the DK1 support.

If SteamOS takes off, Linux will HAVE to have VR support, as Valve are pushing for VR Steam integration, so I'm not too worried.

Oculus on the other hand can go and cuddle up to their Facebook advertising buddies, I've scratched them off my list, and will be bad-mouthing them to anyone willing to listen from now on.

@Pecisk Linux is awesome! Don't forget that :)

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This looks sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!
Getting it now

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Yesssss! I was worried this might not eventuate..

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