@buggerall: having a distribution platform makes companies feel more comfortable about their releases. Frictional’s online store, for one, has way less visibility than Steam or Desura. In an ideal world yes, I agree with you, but those running a company and having to pay salaries for 20 to 300 employees (or even more) prefer to centralize everything on a website like Desura. So yes, I think (and hope) that Desura will bring some AAA titles to Linux – *native* titles that is.

@kreativf, I’ve been very disappointed by these indie royale bundles from the start, the first contained some appealing titles, one of which, the AGS based gemini rue, could conceivably(depending on how well maintained the engine port is) be packaged for linux, but not one developer had put any effort into supporting linux, while the current bundle is a little underwhelming to begin with, it’s tempting to grab it just to get a cheap copy of scoregasm, but i think i’d rather wait and buy direct from charlie once i’ve had a chance to try the demo(at the moment i’ve got a massive backlog of humble games to work through), he’s the one who deserves the support here.