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The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps (www.gamesindustry.biz)

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

The investment should be into DOS gaming, and exclusively there.DOSBox and DOSBox-X work on Linux.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 37 points 10 months ago

That they already do. If there's a DOS game not on GOG it's usually because they didn't get the rights.

Would be cool if they could start selling ROMs for other emulators. I bet at least Sega would be up for that. But good luck with Nintendo and Sony.

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