IIRC, the price is due to it being the beta. It'll go down with a proper release.

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Oooh, very nice! :)

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So it's like The Clue! [External Link]?

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The ones I got from the Humble Bundle and the ones on Steam are native (in fact, IIRC, they are identical). I really doubt the the Humble Store versions are different there.

$ file bs1dc_x86_64
bs1dc_x86_64: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=074e04fa5cf8fd01424f5cba272c70c5b4d5fbe1, stripped
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ldd bs1dc_x86_64
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff0cb33000)
libSDL-1.2.so.0 => ./libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0x00007fbd8a498000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fbd8a22b000)
libopenal.so.1 => ./libopenal.so.1 (0x00007fbd89fd5000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fbd89cd2000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fbd899d4000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fbd897bd000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fbd89411000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fbd8920d000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fbd8a736000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fbd89004000)

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Quoting: liamdaweDon't we all!

Probably not like me. I've got 339 games on Steam...

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Quoting: liamdaweTry it and let us know ;)

I've got too many unplayed games as is already. :P

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I like the music in the trailer. Drone-y. :)

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Quoting: AnonymousThese Broken Sword games are yet another example of games available through other distribution methods

I just deleted a long rant I wrote here about how the Broken Sword games are not anywhere else.

At the time that article was written, the Broken Sword games were not in the Humble Store. In fact, you couldn't get the games for Linux anywhere else except Steam (and the second game in the Humble Bundle). I know, I checked. (Which is the reason Liam wrote "The Humble Bundle is the only place right now to get Broken Sword 2 for Linux outside of steam".)

This has actually changed now. The games are now in the Humble Store. :)

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then back-tracked and requested it to not have the tag

I could have told you that. These people live off of the fact that it seems like an honest recommendation and the surreptitious advertising effect it brings. That's the whole point of this kind of con. I have never seen any of them agreeing on any tags or marker denoting the paid nature of the post; that would destroy the reason to do this in the first place.

In Germany, the "Pressekodex", the ethical/judical principles governing journalism, even includes a strict separation of advertisment and editorial articles. In addition, there's laws regulating competition which can apply there, possibly even EU-wide. Of course, whether that's applicable and enforceable for personal blogs and sites like gamingonlinux.com is anybody's guess. IANAL.

In either case, I thank you for your integrity. But looking at the title and teaser visible in my RSS feed, I wonder if that poker site was as legit as those casino sites advertised in spam mails. Brrr.

EDIT: In fact, I'd like it if you could name and shame that site...

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