Desura is a community driven digital distribution service for gamers, putting the best games, mods and downloadable content from developers at gamers fingertips, ready to buy and play
As some of you know I am a long time gamer. One area Linux has much to improve an ultimately dominate. Whilst good strides are being made to improve the performance of Graphics cards, not much was being done to get games into the the hands of gamers. For the longest time we have been waiting for Valve to deliver the mythical Linux client for Steam. Well it looks like we won't have to wait for it now, as Desura a competitor have taken on the challenge of delivering a Steam-like platform for both Linux and Windows. Already it is possible to get all the Humble-Indie Bundle Games through the website, and a growing collection of both Windows and Linux Games.
Why is this significant? Well if Linux gaming is going to really take of we need distribution platforms. If you look at the latest trends far more copies of popular gaming titles sell online that retail box copy. Also if your a budding indie developer it has to be cheaper to go the online route instead of bricks and mortar retail publishing deals. Try persuading GAME or HMV to stock a Linux title!
How ever the Linux client is still in closed beta so no quite out the door yet! How ever it is a good deal closer than anything Steam has to offer. If this keeps up we might even get the year of the Linux Desktop ;-)
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