PS+ is doing the rebirth version, are they? Good deal. There always was some gems on PS+ back when I had a PS3 and subscription. It was only £35/year when I had it though. Do you pay monthly now?

As for the game, I'll hang fire on this one, despite the excellent reviews. It might be a Christmas purchase for me. We'll see. Looks a little dark for my liking, and I own the original through the Humble Bundle, although I've never bothered downloading it.

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Quoting: GuestThanks for including screenshots!

Sadly nothing of interest to me this time.

Yeah, I think the screenshots really bring the write-ups to life. We'll be doing them from now on, I think. Shame nothing grabbed you... but there's always next time!

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Quoting: Xpanderso my bet is that those who are distro hoppers are getting survey more. those under windows seem to get also more and we single linux distro users get it super rarely

I'm not buying into conspiracy theories here, but I agree - I've had the survey twice in 18 months under Ubuntu, but when I was on Windows it would pop up every other month or so. And I think I do more gaming now than I did then too!

Of course, if I was buying into conspiracy theories, I'd suggest that Valve's marketing for Steam Machines will have more impact if, after 3 months of their launch, they've doubled or trebled the market share...

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Quoting: scaineI doubt this will be one of HiB 13's reveals next week, but experience tells me not to buy any games during the first week of a Bundle!

Otherwise, this is an definite purchase. I've heard good things about it.

The game is 50% off already.... buy the game, help the devs which deserve our money and score one more Steam sale for Linux :)

Yeah, it's not like I haven't done it before, it's true. But I've already dropped $30 (£18) on HiB13, so if I buy Transistor for £8, and they then release it for HiB, I'll be a bit annoyed. It would feel like buying it twice.

Definitely a game I want though... so we'll see. I generally have the will of a 5 yr old child at Christmas time, so there's a good chance that I'll buckle like a cheap belt over the weekend and end up buying it anyway!

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I doubt this will be one of HiB 13's reveals next week, but experience tells me not to buy any games during the first week of a Bundle!

Otherwise, this is an definite purchase. I've heard good things about it.

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Goddam, I nearly bought Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet a couple of days ago. Bit mean of them to release it on Steam, then for it to hit the Bundle a few days later.

But what a bundle! One of the best. I'm impressed.

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Yep, it's important to note that we're not asking one or more people to "take on" the TFC article. All we need is one or two people to commit maybe a half hour a week to write one, maybe two projects up. They're already nominated usually and your contribution can be at any point in between the article's "go live" date.

We use a GoL maintained WIKI to write the article, then it gets published by Munts when we agree that it's ready.

This isn't a huge commitment, but as Speedster notes, I do most of the writing now that Munts is deep into his post-graduate and I just find it difficult to write up 5 or 6 projects by myself every couple of weeks.

If you volunteer, all that really happens is that you'll get an email/private message inviting you to the WIKI and any projects you cover will be hugely appreciated.

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Happy memories of this. I did play it again (via emulator) a few years back and found it surprisingly difficult! I'd love to buy the anniversary remake if it lands on Linux.

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Yeah, I owned it (and barely played it) for years. I only played it again (briefly) when it became available for Linux. It's a building block to other people's work though, not really "worth it" on its own. The mod my mates wanted me to buy it for was called... eh... Trouble in Terror Town? Something like that. I couldn't really get into it.

So, yeah, decent figures all things considered. Half as many in the past year, so that's 3 million units sold? 1% of 3 million is 30k units. About right. In fact, surprisingly high when you consider how many Linux people will already own this.

I mean, Linux users are only 1% right? But here's someone who's made 1% sales DESPITE a large portion of the existing 1% already owning it.

I'd love to see how many of us actually did own this for a while. If there were a lot, it would suggest that Linux gamers represent a fair bit more than 1%, or that we've done a heap of re-buying/gifting existing games for our platform to boost figures.

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Multiple sites, including Kotaku covered the Linux port, and their IndieGoGo page put "PC & Linux" as target platforms. Plus, the tweet you highlighted, Liam.

Anyone arguing that "Linux was never promised" is either a fool or an L0 employee. Another Fun Pimps-like debacle.

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