A new PC-based digital distribution service is entering the market, but this one's not what you might expect. It's called Desura, and it's coming to us from ModDB. Two years in the making and not finalized yet, this application aims to lessen the struggle of getting mods to work with your games.
Desura will contain many of the community features and extras like achievements, stats, and what have you we've come to expect from similar services. Interestingly, it's going to have editors to pick and choose only the "high quality releases," although any of the less desirable content will always be on the main site.
There's a quick Q&A on the service, in case you're longing to hear more. Desura is obviously targeting only a specific sub-section of gaming, but I think it will be one to watch for anyone intrigued by community projects. It's in private beta currently, and should become set for launch sometime next year.
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I'll be keeping my eye on this!
It's rather stupid.
I'll still give Desura a try once it's released though.
I gave Neotokyo a try because you kept posting about it, but it really didn't seem special at all -- I totally couldn't tell what the fuss was. So yeah, that might have something to do with the lack of coverage.
oh how naive you are. A game being bad doesn't consitute for lack of coverage. After all Battlefield Heroes has gotten so many articles about its player count and shit that doesn't really say much about the game itself. Which tries to make a complex game by using mismatched simplistic styles. It really is not fun to play at all.
Still a quality polished mod though.
I find that most overhaul mods are very easy to install, but time investment and possible frustration comes when you start getting into installing more than a several at once, like you might do in Oblivion or Fallout 3. I love having my games with a ton of mods, don't get me wrong, but it can take a fair amount of time.