After making more than $5 million in the THQ Humble Bundlle (which a portion of will have gone to charity) THQ are considering developing for the Linux OS.
While the THQ bundle was extremely successful it did spark a little debate from those who were used to most the games in previous bundles to be DRM free and available on Mac and Linux also. Well, the sound of a million GNU-lovers (that sounds wrong) has reached THQ's ear.
Cheshire Theyain tweeted to THQ's president Jason Rubin "can you guys consider doing some games for Linux? I know it seems a small market, but look at what Valve is doing." which got the response "Got the Linux message load and clear via #HumbleBundle feedback. Evaluating cost/benefit as we speak."
Naughty Dog was founded in 1984 by Jason Rubin and Andy Gavin, but what were they up to before their big break?
Alex & Mike talk Biomutant, a game from Experiment 101/THQ Nordiq you likely have not heard of. While the AAA side of the industry tends to homogenization and imitative, cinematic presentation, “AA” games remain creative and innovative in 2021. Drawing on inspirations as varied as Dark Souls, third person shooters & kung fu cinema, Biomutant is Ratchet & Clank on acid, developed by a team of 20 people.
Did you know Crash Bandicoot was originally going to be more like Uncharted? IGN chats to the marsupial's co-creator alongside Crash 4's art director on his evolution.
Mega fault from Sony there....Either that didnt buy the franchise back when its value was at lowest point because Activision s inability to make games, either that they gave almost for free the original blueprints of the first 3 Crash Bandicoot games (+CTR which are still Sony/ND' s property) in order the mediocre remakes to be developped without being exclusives for PS4 ..
...Sony underestimated the power of Crash bandicoot and when they started to understand its value (because of the negative fan reaction on Playstation All Stars where CB was absent ) it was too late .
..Also they r rumors that there was a deal with Activision to buy it back but when Activision saw the huge hype created by the possible return of Crash on PS they broke the deal
It's not PlayStations mascot. Universal opted to sell their assets and the rest is history. Crash has appeared on competing consoles, and Microsoft loves it but you haven't seen Mario or Master Chief on PlayStation or Nintendo hardware, though is was rumored at one point The Master Chief Collection was going to launch on the Switch just to try and invade enemy territory to build up hype for Halo Infinite only for consumers to then realize if they wanted to play the new game they had to get Microsoft hardware but still make money off a fizzled set of games no longer making money on Xbox, kind of like what Sony are doing with Death Stranding and Horizon: Zero Dawn, except the problem with that is Day 1 sales, like console exclusives, fans now know if they wait a year and play the current list of exclusives to entertain them long enough, after a year they can play it on their console of choice.
This really has more to do with the Steam Box than anything else.
I hope So I have a Linux Ubuntu PC as well as a mac and windows but it would be nice to see some AAA games on Linux seeing how I use it about 70% more then I do windows or mountain lion, were in the hell do they get these names?