Showing posts with label rpg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rpg. Show all posts
Monday, October 19, 2015
Wasteland 2 Officially Released
After 2,5 years of development, Wasteland 2, a single player post-apocalyptic RPG developed and published by inXile Entertainment, was released today and is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X on GOG.com, Steam or Humble Bundle Store.
Wasteland 2 is the direct sequel to 1988's Wasteland RPG, which is considered to be the inspiration behind the Fallout series, and it was developed thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign which received almost $3,000,000 in funding.
Below you can watch the Wasteland 2 Combat Trailer as well as the launch trailer, to get an idea on what the game is about:
(direct video link)
(direct video link)
Wasteland 2 is a turn-based tactical combat game set in an alternate history timeline, in which a nuclear holocaust took place in 1998. The game features hundreds of characters, thousands of variations on your Rangers' appearance along with over 150 weapons, dozens of skills and more. You can read more about it on Wikipedia.
On Linux, Wasteland 2 has the following minimum system requirements:
- Processor: 2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 or Radeon HD 4850 (512 MB VRAM)
- Hard Drive: 30 GB available space
Buy Wasteland 2
Buy Wasteland 2 ($39.99 for the classic edition and $59.99 for the Digital Deluxe Edition*)
If you buy the game via GOG.com, you can download it using lgogdownloader, a tool which supports resuming unfinished downloads along with other useful features.
* The Deluxe Edition comes with free copies of Wasteland 1 and The Bard's Tale games)
via Reddit
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Borderlands 2 Now Available On Linux; Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Is Coming To Linux This Month
Borderlands 2, the popular action RPG video game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games, is now available on Linux / Steam OS.
The game was ported to Linux by Aspyr Media, the company that ported Borderlands 2 to Mac back in 2012.
For those not familiar with Borderlands 2, this is an action role-playing first-person shooter video game which uses the Unreal Engine 3. According to Wikipedia, the game was a financial success and with 8.5 million copies sold by February 2014, it's 2K Games' best-selling game.
Below you can watch the official Borderlands 2 launch trailer:
(direct video link)
On Linux, Borderlands 2 has the following system requirements:
- Ubuntu 14.04 / Steam OS (but of course, this doesn't mean it doesn't work on other Linux distributions)
- Processor: 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Quad, AMD Phenom II X4
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- HDD space: 13 GB
- Video card (Nvidia): Geforce 260
- Video memory: 1GB
The game Steam page mentions that integrated Intel graphics and ATI graphics are currently unsupported for Borderlands 2 on Linux.
Borderlands 2 costs $19.99 but there's a special promotion right now and you can buy the game for $4.99 (75% discount) for the next 32 hours: Borderlands 2 @ Steam.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Aspyr Media has confirmed that Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is coming to both Mac and Linux, on 14 October 2014 in North America and on 17 October 2014 outside of North America:
"Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel for Mac and Linux will offer full feature parity with the Windows PC version, including cross-platform multiplayer and SHiFT Support. Plus, Aspyr will be supporting all future DLC releases."
You can pre-order Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel from GameAgent or the Steam store ($59.99).
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