Or maybe it's this:

In the picture, there's an old guy, presumably a young guy that's highlighted in blue, and a kid. Those could be the Aeneas (blue guy), Anchises (old guy), and Ascanius (kid) of legend -- so those THREE PEOPLE are the Trojan refugees who fled the sack of the city.

After their Carthaginian escapade, they landed in Latium, where Aeneas got to be married to the princess of the Latins, who was originally betrothed to the kind of the Rutuli. There's your ROYAL SCAM.

Aeneas went on to found the city of Alba, from whose royal line descended Remus and Romulus, the founders of the city of ROME.

So, it has to be Rome II.

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Quoting: flesk(Trying desperately but failing to link the clues to a LEGO game.)

LEGO appeals to people of all ages, hence the 3 people in the picture, from differing age groups.

LEGO is a Danish company, and Denmark has a royalty; and wherever there's royalty, there is bound to be scammy behavior. So there's your 'Royal Scam' hint.

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There are 3 people in the picture.
GTA V has 3 protagonists.

Case closed.

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The lyrics to 'the Royal Scam' mention 'the City of St. John', which is supposed to be in Canada; and it's implied in GTA V that Trevor Phillips is from Canada -- so, there you have it, it's GTA V.

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What he has to say about SteamOS is pretty encouraging.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleHaha, probably none of the above. Grow Home is a Unity game, so "porting" costs are negligible, and it has no uPlay requirement, which would put the kabosh on any of the others getting a Linux port.

Mac has a uplay client; I see no reason why Linux can't have one.

It's not like it's a functional piece of software anyway.

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Quoting: melkemindI have a Ubisoft-published game called Outland, and it's actually one of the better Linux ports I've played in terms of performance (not bad gameplay too).

These publishers only speak dollars and cents. If a developer, even one of their subsidaries, can demonstrate that a Linux port will yield a good return on investment, they'll sign off on it even if they don't know what Linux is.

I was about to say the same (Outland, etc.).

Ubisoft released Mac versions of Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood (though they were considerably underperforming). IIRC, this took place right around the time there appeared a 'Mac App Store'; presumably they didn't keep up with Mac ports, because the Mac App Store didn't yield the returns they hoped it would.

So it's conceivable that they might try something similar, if they think the new 'market' opened up by Steam Machines has some promise.

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Quoting: reaVerGuys, I think we're all ignoring the fact that the sky just came falling down...

Why, what happened?

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Quoting: fleskWouldn't the ultimate recognition from Ubisoft be uPlay for Linux though? ;)

Yes, and as much as I hate it -- for the sake of virtual historical tourism via Assassin's Creed, I'd welcome uplay on Linux wholeheartedly. AC is the major reason why I keep a windows partition -- I know that they aren't terribly good *games*; I'm interested almost exclusively in the environments.

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There was an 'unboxing' video earlier today; covering pretty much the same ground as this one:

View video on youtube.com

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