NVIDIA believes strongly that Vulkan supplements OpenGL, and that both APIs have their own strengths. <...>
Current NVIDIA technologies such as “bindless”, NV_command_list, and the “AZDO” techniques for core OpenGL, can achieve excellent single-thread performance.

They ignore the elephant in the room. OpenGL is plagued by incompatible implementations and spec violations by all parties (so called "optimizing" for individual titles), for which Nvidia bears a major part of the blame.Therefore no, Vulkan is not supplementing OpenGL. It should really replace it completely when possible. Because it's very unlikely for vendors to now magically start honoring OpenGL spec. That train is long gone. But Vulkan has a chance to set things right from the start. OpenGL can still be useful for supporting legacy cases which otherwise can't switch, but everything else should move away from it.

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Looks promising. I might buy it if they'll release it DRM-free.

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Yeah, they need to improve their remote work options. So far being in their Warsaw office is a requirement for most of their positions.

Also, their CD Projekt RED positions notably are missing anything related to Linux and OpenGL / Vulkan:

http://en.cdprojektred.com/jobs/ [External Link]

Which is not a very promising thing, unless they are already fully staffed with in-house Linux gaming developers.

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I'm playing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (in Wine). Never played it before and I'm enjoying it so far. Looking forward to play the native sequel when Aspyr will pull it together to release it on GOG.

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GOG version:

https://www.gog.com/game/hand_of_fate [External Link]
https://www.gog.com/game/hand_of_fate_wildcards [External Link]

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Hm. There are some games from Focus Home Interactive on GOG, but this game isn't there.

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Quoting: neffoIt's both.

You can either reward pledge or you can invest. The money just goes into the same total funding pool.

I know they have both options. But even the one that is simple funding, can be looked at as simple investment (where the benefit is just the game itself). I actually always preferred to view even simple crowdfunding as an investment, and not as a pre-order.

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Quoting: burzmaliAlso, investments are investments, "classic" doesn't figure into it.

They stretched the concept of investment here. Classic investment usually gives investors more say in the company. Fig doesn't want that - it wouldn't be any better than publishers skewing creative process. I.e. they want funding, but they want to preserve creative independence.

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I think Fig actually tries to make it more of an investment and less of a pre-order. Because crowdfunding is indeed more of the former. However they don't make it a classic investment either. It's something on its own.

Also, they so far listed quite respected people in their advisory board, including Brian Fargo from inXile. I doubt he'd like to be associated with a Ponzi scheme.

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There is nothing new here. Crowdfunding is always a risky investment. So they made Fig into another risk prone investment platform where besides the game people can actually make some dividends. They never hid the fact that such investment is risky. So I'm not sure what the author is complaining about. If you don't like the risk - don't invest. He has only one valid point - that operation of Fig itself is somewhat shaky. I guess it should be expected since it's just starting. Kickstarter is already established and is financially independent. A startup like Fig requires serious investors to go anywhere.

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