Good Old Games Announces Linux Support

[Gahars]

Good Old Games, like the retail equivalent of Eddie McDowd, has made "do good deeds" its personal mission. After promising to compensate users for regional pricing, what could be next on their plate? Well, as it turns out...

...We just wanted to announce that, after much deliberation, we've decided that one of the next steps for us is to support Linux. Now, we're not ready to launch Linux games on GOG.com just yet. We've only been working on bringing these Linux games to our service for a few months, and there's lots more to go, but we wanted to let you know what's going to be coming this fall to a digital distributor near you.

We're initially going to be launching our Linux support on GOG.com with the full GOG.com treatment for Ubuntu and Mint. That means that right now, we're hammering away at testing games on a variety of configurations, training up our teams on Linux-speak, and generally getting geared up for a big kick-off in the fall with at least 100 Linux games ready for you to play. This is, of course, going to include games that we sell which already have Linux clients, but we'll also be bringing Linux gamers a variety of classics that are, for the first time, officially supported and maintained by a storefront like ours.

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At this rate, they're going to have cancer and AIDS cured by the end of the year. Hopefully that offsets all the carpal tunnel.

Now, they haven't announced which titles will be available yet - according to the post, they are still only in the very early planning stages. Still, couple this move with Valve's own SteamOS, and it seems that Linux is slowly becoming a more viable platform and Linux users are finally being taken seriously.

I'm sure all 12 of you must be very happy.

 

[DaggerV]

I'll be happy when I see it in action.







Until then, VAB.

 

[Ashtonx]

Technically they're gog now, they've moved from good old games name to make it clear it's not longer just old games there.

 

[Isaac]

This is good. I like this.

 

[XDel]

Good!

 

[Mario92]

Technically they're gog now, they've moved from good old games name to make it clear it's not longer just old games there.

True, but it's weird to keep abbreviation and remove the meaning :\

Older titles on GOG were just DosBox with premade confs so it should be really easy job for them as DosBox is natively available also for linux. They should also do Wine (even if some people hate it) as Wine should works OK with older titles.

 

[Kayot]

Well done GOG. I'm impressed, and that's hard to do.

 

[cearp]

...like the retail equivalent of Eddie McDowd ,...

crazy for this reference, thanks. haven't seen it mentioned, talked about, or anything for maybe a decade

 

[grossaffe]

I approve of this move.