Green Man Gaming news hits the web (Day 2.5)

Didn’t get a chance to post yesterday as I was swamped working on some alterations to the DRM systems for Green Man Gaming. The story about GMG hit Rock Paper Shotgun yesterday and it was rather interesting:

Details are comically thin on the ground (the official site’s just a cheapo holding page, but VG247 has rounded up some pertinent quotes from CEO)

I’m wondering what an expensive holding page looks like? It’ll be changing in a few days anyway – so maybe it’ll look a little less cheap then. The pertinent quotes referenced are from the COO not CEO. Quite a big difference!

The rest of the post goes into guessing around commercials and the like. Which I guess has to be expected when the details are “comically thin on the ground”. If one basis of business on what some of the posts around the web have been guessing, then yes it’d be absurd! Apparently there’s no way a publisher would be interested in working with Green Man Gaming… the press release covers this already with the “400 titles for launch” so that’s pretty much put to bed already isn’t it?

Naturally the comments continue – the editor at Game Spy noted this:

Green Man Gaming is one company I’ll be keeping tabs on. If this takes off, it might be the start of something huge. Three letters keep popping into my head — D.R.M.

Yep, DRM. As noted earlier it’s something, along with Code Security that gets a lot of attention at Green Man Gaming. It’s worth making sure that we distinct the two there. DRM (Digital Rights Management) is just checks to make sure a piece of media is being used in the way it’s intended. Code Security is then used to protect it. The consumer world wraps this up in just DRM.

The DRM we’re employing is designed to be secure and lightweight and not intrude on the poor customer’s PC. I personally hate all the Sony hell that was created with their music DRM system. I’ll be happy to go into that in more detail another time if there’s a demand to know more.