My wallet cries out in pain.

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These fine folks had day one Linux support, right? Think I'll be getting this for full price sometime later.

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This is a big deal, I take it? First time I've heard of this game, but it's not like I'm very knowledgeable about the gaming industry.

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I'll just pick it up on launch day too, from Humble. DF doesn't get more money from preorders, right?

Feeling excited and looking forward to the new OST too! I still listen to the original OST from time to time.

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How do we link emperor penguins to Half Life 3?

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Also, penguins are *sooo* cute.

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That looks like an emperor penguin. Soo... Empire: Total War? That's a 2008 game though, but apparently with a 2012 port for OS X (by Feral).

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I heard about this game from Notch tweeting about it. Looks interesting. I'd give it a try if it were native.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: AstroAspyr is great and I love the job they've done but Feral is just a garbadge.

This right here is what I talk about in my post above. Ferals work on Xcom is the exact opposite of garbage, and to sit an spew out stuff like this on forums on the net... We're just in no position whatsoever to do so!

I get these mixed up a lot. Feral did X-COM? I personally have been very satisfied with X-COM, so here's some love: <3

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First of all, I wouldn't have any trouble believing Linux OpenGL drivers have had less work put into them by their respective vendors than the Windows versions. I think that's just a reality of our current market share.

As a Linux gamer I'm actually ok with having slightly worse performance than Windows as long as the game work well otherwise (i.e. no crashes, graphical glitches and other kinds of bugs), again because of my first point. So Borderlands 2 has X% less FPS, who cares, it's fun, it's native and otherwise works very well.

As for the SteamOS situation, I hope Valve won't be giving up this quickly on it. I think if they wanted their own console, Linux (in some form) is their best bet anyway, so it's not like they're making a big blunder here. Also Microsoft allowing Alienware customizations... You can bet your ass if Valve dropped SteamOS they'd back-pedal on a lot of things immediately. I think SteamOS will serve Valve just fine even if it never graduates to primary product status and remains kinda niche. Wasn't the primary raison d'etre of SteamOS the threat of Microsoft locking down third party stores on Windows like Apple is doing on iOS/must be thinking of doing on OS X? If that was the situation a few years ago, and now we have Microsoft allowing unprecedented customizations to other companies, SteamOS has already kinda served its purpose (for now).

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