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UPDATE: It's confirmed as 2K spoke to IGN
QuoteWe've reached out to 2K, and they have confirmed that it will indeed be headed to Linux this fall.

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Thanks to the public financial reports of Take-Two Interactive it looks like the newest game in the Borderland series could see a Linux release and is listed as a platform for the game.

At this link here you will see this information:
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It's even listed in the downloadable PDF of the financial report, so that's pretty official.

We have reached out to Take-Two Interactive for confirmation on this. Hopefully it wasn't a mistake, but it's hard to see someone manually typing in "Linux" by accident.

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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! is an upcoming first-person shooter video game being developed by 2K Australia with assistance from Gearbox Software and to be published by 2K Games. It is the third game in the Borderlands series, and a prequel to the 2012 game Borderlands 2.
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This is extremely exciting as it's a massively popular game series, and if it turns out to be true it could mean the others may see a release too.

It's interesting as Randy Pitchford of Gearbox previously said to us not to get our hopes up, but that was about Borderlands 2. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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vulture Aug 8, 2014
Quoting: SirBubbles
Quoting: vultureok, comments on that site are just... lol. so many disappointed ?next? gen gamers.

downright funny to see each and every one pointing out ?next? gen.
Save yourself, do what I've decided to do and never go to that site again. Don't read the comments, it's a lot like megagames, but with moderated comments. No less idiotic comments though. "It's not "next gen" if it's not on a bloody stinking console, it's just not good enough, linux? wtf is that?"

I'm still waiting for Witcher 3 (pleased with the Witcher 2 port so far, I seem to get good performance out of it where others seem not to) and Shogun 2 Total War. Plus two Kickstarters, The Mandate and Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

and be deprived of my "daily joke with popcorn on the ready" read? :) even in my times as console gamer i found most of those people as proof people can be insane (and funny) without borders. worst thing was their "not exclusive=not good/exclusive=awesome" logic. game can only be as good as developer made it to be, exclusive or not.

but, right now they added this ?next? gen delusion to the mix?... sheeesh and lol. insanity=limitless (note to my self... need more popcorn)
lave Aug 8, 2014
just was looking at the comments out of curiousity and actually complete page1 was "yay linux" or "dont be so ignorant, linux yay!"
but maybe its just you people that try to counter them :D
EKRboi Aug 8, 2014
Quoting: vultureright now they added this ?next? gen delusion to the mix?... sheeesh and lol. insanity=limitless

^ This. "next gen" was old gen when it was still on the ol' drawing board. I'm glad for the console crowd that they finally have something better to look at.. but the hardware was outdated from the start. I really believe consoles are on the way out and I would not be surprised if this is the last console gen... I mean the new consoles are simply low end PC's anyways. they may be extremely popular in some places (ie, US) but the truth of the matter is that PC gaming as a whole is much larger than all the consoles combined. PC gaming brings in more $$ on software and hardware sales than all the big consoles combined.


"PC gaming hardware market is more than twice as large as the console gaming hardware market."

http://www.maximumpc.com/bragging_rights_pc_gaming_market_maintains_sales_lead_over_consoles_2014

"From a sheer hardware perspective PC Gaming is pretty large. I can’t pin exact figures but consider this. In 2008 well over 120 million discrete video cards sold thru last year. By comparison there were about ~45 million total consoles sold (Includes: PS2/3, 360, Wii) in that same period"

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/03/03/just-how-many-pc-gamers-are-there

“the big difference is that consoles are now the luxury item and PCs are the necessity. Just a few years ago the reverse was true.”

"After reading the interview, I went back to my own conversation with Raptr CEO Dennis Fong, who reminded me there are a staggering 900 million PC gamers worldwide. Contrast that data with global consoles sales of, say, Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft’s Xbox 360, and Sony's PlayStation 3: About 262 million units. Combined."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/04/28/as-global-pc-game-revenue-surpasses-consoles-how-long-should-console-makers-keep-fighting/

EDIT* Another thought is with these consoles already being outdated, assuming another 10ish year console cycle and considering that 4k tvs are quickly coming down in price that it almost makes no sense not to buy one when it's time for a new tv. What happens in 2-3 years when Johnny(Jenny?) XBone buys him/herself a new 4k tv and goes home and hooks up that XBone or PS4 and it downright looks horrible outputting at 900p? Playing a game at 720 vs 1080 on a 1080 monitor is completely obvious and that's only a small difference in res when compared to 900p -> 2160p(AKA: 4k)
MayeulC Aug 8, 2014
Quoting: scaineCrysis 2
Allow me to disagree :)

Yay ! Borderlands for Linux !
Here's my wishlist :
  • Menus that are browseable with a mouse

  • Splitscreen on PC (at least on Linux/SteamOS). I mean, full, 4 players splitscreen.

  • Fun is subjective, but IMO, B1 was more fun than the second. I wish this one will be the funniest


I can't think of anything else for now. Borderlaaaaands ! Yay !
vulture Aug 9, 2014
Quoting: lavejust was looking at the comments out of curiousity and actually complete page1 was "yay linux" or "dont be so ignorant, linux yay!"
but maybe its just you people that try to counter them :D

like old saying goes... don't judge book by its cover. it starts ok, at page 3 or so it becomes borderline insane. ?next? gen this and ?next? gen that

as far as i get it, article was renamed in something like "Borderlands is adding another platform" (later renamed again), where both parties jumped to conclusion that if platform is not theirs, they need to express some anger towards the platform being added
BabaoWhisky Aug 12, 2014
Hey guys,

The game is definitively confirmed for Linux. The game has an entry on Steam Database :
http://steamdb.info/app/261640/
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