I know, eON. I was on autopilot, meant to convey it's a wrapper like WINE, ie not native.

is there a list out there of games with Linux versions out but not here. i feel like we need that, so we can look at it now and again, and sulk

I already posted a link to the GOGmix for that: "Games that have native linux ports...elsewhere"

wow, pretty comprehensive thanks, i see you even included the saints row games, i saw darksiders had a Linux port a few days ago too. i think we really need this. nice work

Don't thank me, that GOGmix is created/maintained by Redfern... thank him :)

yes thanks Redfern, i remember the hours i spend following some Dev promising a Linux port for darksiders 2, i had lost hope. thanks steam

Well, I've had a brief look at Saints Row 2 now. It is worse than SR3, although I suspect this is in large part due to the poor quality of the Windows port combined with running it in a wrapper. It's still playable though.

I still hope they'll bring them here, as despite their issues they are at least playable and they're better than nothing (and neither game runs in Wine at present, although the DX9 version of SR3 is close to working). If not now then at least after they've had a chance to fix up the bugs in the wrappers & eke out as much performance as they can.

You don't have to enter into an extended argument,

In all fairness GOG has not done well with regard to linux releases.
The linux games on here are awful and lacking.
Just look at the lack of selection, it's all in the numbers and GOG does not have them.

Look at humblebundle and steam and the other indie sites.
They have a larger selection.

It's just going to drive linux users there.
This really is not in GOG favor, we all want to support GOG windows and linux users.
Some more now then before are switching to linux because we are fed up with windows and these users are just going to get there games from who ever has them first.
At the end of the day DRM free is king, but we still want to play games. So if it's only available on steam, guess what steam gets the sale. I'm not going to wait for GOG to get the game as it may never happen.

That's fair enough -- I only put the last sentence in because I've seen certain responses suddenly turn into mutlipage opinion wars :-)

As for Linux and games, I've using Linux since around 1993, so I spent so long without any real game support that I'm not too worried about the quantity of games appearing on GOG. Anyway, at one point it appeared that GOG would never have any Linux games at all, so as I said before, I think they've done fairly well.

As for Steam and Humble Bundle, I've bought my fair share of games from them both, but I haven't really come across any "must haves" (for me that is) on Steam for a while.

All the silence around this and SR4/GOOH from gog & Volition. They either plan something very big or they managed to piss off each other hard :(

I hope for the former but fear the other happened. Should the other had indeed happened please G & V, get your act together for the sake of your fans.

GOG is silent about just about everything, nothing new there. Volition I don't have enough experience with but they're part of Deep Silver & the few times I've tried contacting them regarding GOG they've never replied so I'd guess it's the same for them too.