I am guessing that is a legitimate typo rather than an actual factual error, since he has demonstrated that he knew the difference in the past. Larabel's real problem when it comes to his Linux gaming coverage is because his hardware review background lends him to still have the Windows mindset about AAA titles and developers, causing him to have a larger blind spot when it comes to Indie titles.

After all, he was late in recognizing the first Humble Indie Bundle (though he never made that mistake again, to be fair), and only ever mentioned Frictional for the first time (aside from Overture as part of the first bundle) about a week before Amnesia's release, when you would have thought they would have been right up his alley. Both Penumbra and Amnesia sport pretty damn impressive graphics for an Indie title (I was just playing through Overture again last night, going to have a go at Black Plague again later today) and the physics implementation one would have thought would be intriguing to him. Instead, he worships Valve and the other big Windows or Console developers and just's prays they come around, rather than celebrating what we do have.

He used to be better, back in the days when he was covering what LGP, Icculus, and TTimo was up to (which granted seemed to be more back then than now, for various reasons) and when he was one of the first to mention the work of IGIOS on Shadowgrounds, which in the end has served us and the community well. But the apparent Indie revolution we have been experiencing seems to have flown straight over his head.

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Looks like Michael Larabal of Phoronix has pissed quite a few people off with his coverage, and rightly so since he was being something of an ass:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY2NQ [External Link]
http://www.phoronix.com/news2forums.php?view=OTY2NQ [External Link]

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Complaining about problems with electronic commerce being the problem with regards to Loki seems to be laughable to me; the main problem as far as I could tell based on what I have read and what guys like icculus in the past have said seem to indicate a large part of the problem with ventures like Loki or LGP was that they inherently were too based on on traditional shrink-wrapper physical publishing. Like when they ordered way too many units of a supposedly "special edition" of Quake III Arena which they were never able to fully ship. Granted, back in the days of Loki it would be insane to expect anyone to download a full game reliably (though Loki still complained about piracy, hmm...). A good example of where icculus commented on this was his SouthEast LinuxFest talk in 2009:

Video: [URL='http://ia311037.us.archive.org/2/items/SouthEast_LinuxFest_2009_Videos/Greg_DeKoeningsberg_SouthEast_LinuxFest.ogv']http://ia311037.us.archive.org/2/items/SouthEast_LinuxFest_2009_Videos/Icculus_SouthEast_LinuxFest.ogv[/URL]
Audio http://ia301515.us.archive.org/2/items/SouthEast_LinuxFest_2009/Icculus_SouthEast_LinuxFest.ogg [External Link]

Granted of course, that aside was coming from a former employee, so what do I know?

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As long as they do eventually get it on a more platform agnostic solution, I do not really care. And yes, there is very little chance of them abandoning Linux in the future, as their lead programmer is a former Loki guy and a good friend of icculus who actually has contributed to the OpenGL specifications. So I doubt we would get any problems from them in that regard.

Still, all the more reason for Desura to come about.

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Well, I understand his reasons for not doing the mod support, but I still hope that at some point they can get that working on Linux. That said, I am still interested in Desura and they responded to my question well. So well done Keith and Scott and of course well done Liam for the interview. ;)

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Interesting, though I can not help but feel the music undersells it a bit. Just a suggestion, but in my experience an active music track helps any side-scroller. :)

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Well, they seem to be serious, they now have a list of the games they will be selling at launch and a timer indicating when their service will open it's doors for good. I like that they seem to be big on making sure that they cater to as much as the major distributions as possible, even though I tend to prefer to keep my proprietary games separate from my package manager. Still, compared to the closed nature of the USC it is kind of refreshing.

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Well, I remember reading an archived LinuxGames post from about five or six years ago where many people were complaining that there was basically nowhere but TuxGames to buy native gaming titles. That has thankfully been changed somewhat.

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Looks to be a bit more fancy than Tux Games or Wupra, judging by this page:
http://partners.gameolith.com/ [External Link]

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Yeah, but if it is like the Windows version, even if you purchased your version from a different source, I believe you can still use Desura with many titles to manage the install and use it to install and manage mods for it. So if they offer support for say Doom 3 or UT2004, even if they do not sell them, that would be quite a few interesting mods.

This is just the impression I got, but I know for a fact that you can do this with Doom 3 on Windows, so I assume it will be the same with the Linux version (or I at least hope). :D

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