Since there was actually more from E3 2019 for Linux than I expected, here's a little round-up of things so you don't get lost in a sea of articles. As expected, there's little in the way of AAA games but anyone actually expecting that for Linux hasn't been keeping up. Traditionally, E3 has never really given much information for Linux gamers. There were still a few fun little surprises though!
Coming this year
- Lovely Planet 2: April Skies - June 18th
- Mable & The Wood - Summer 2019
- UnderMine - Summer 2019
- Police Stories - September 19th
- Stoneshard - November 7th
- Commandos 2 HD Remaster - Q4 2019
- Starmancer - "Soon"
- Terraria 1.4 "Journey's End" - 2019 sometime
- Borderlands 2: Commander Lilith & the Fight for Sanctuary - No ETA from Aspyr Media
- Mosaic - "It’s not a day 1 priority, but we want to get it out on Linux as well." (source) - 2019
Coming in 2020
- Aground (Early Access already on Linux) - New update live, full release "early 2020"
- Bite the Bullet - Q1 2020
- CARRION - 2020
- Spiritfarer - 2020
- Psychonauts 2 - 2020 + Double Fine join MSFT
- Wasteland 3 - Spring 2020
Crowdfunding
- Ribbiting Saga - Crowdfunding
- SkateBIRD - Crowdfunding
Hardware
- Ryzen 9 3950X and Radeon RX 5700
- Smach Z handheld - Shipping this year, Linux by default (Windows costs extra). There's been talk of them bringing out a Switch-like dock, to enable the CPU to run faster too.
- Atari VCS console - March 2020
Pinched by Epic Store
- WHAT THE GOLF? - Epic Exclusive until next year
- Griftlands - Epic Exclusive until next year
- Afterparty - Epic Exclusive until next year, waiting to hear more info from the developer
Stadia
Since Stadia will work on Linux and it's powered by Linux, here's what is newly announced for it:
- Marvel's Avengers - Square Enix
- Watch Dogs: Legion - Ubisoft
- Uplay+ - an extra subscription service, with access to 100+ games. Not clear how many of those will be on Stadia.
Interestingly, we also now know why Valve are going it alone in making their own stand-alone version of Dota Auto Chess. During E3 at the PC Gaming Show, the original creator of the popular Dota 2 game mode revealed that his own stand-alone desktop game is going to be an Epic Store exclusive. It now makes more sense why Valve said, "Valve and Drodo could not work directly with each other for a variety of reasons".
On another Valve-related note that's small, Valve also put out Steam Play Proton 4.2-7 to "Fix for performance and sound regression that affected some games, like Wolfenstein: The New Order.". This was needed, as FAudio was a bit messed-up.
For those curious (we've been asked a few times about this), Paradox Interactive and Romero Games also revealed Empire of Sin, sadly though it seems to be another game published by Paradox that won't be seeing Linux support. Linux was missed out of all the press info they sent.
As for a random bit of non-gaming news, Debian 10 Buster was announced this week to release on July 6th.
Plenty more non-E3 news to come Linux gaming fans! I have a big todo-list and inbox waiting for me, which got pushed back by the surprising number of announcements over the last two days.
I will continue to add to this, as more comes out so check back often!
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month:
The comments on this article are closed.
All posts need to follow our rules. For users logged in: please hit the Report Flag icon on any post that breaks the rules or contains illegal / harmful content. Guest readers can email us for any issues.
Some weird announcement about The Witcher 3 being developed for Nintendo Switch. It means they are implementing a Vulkan renderer for it after all? With Google trying to attract high profile games to Stadia, it's one step away from it. And two steps away from normal Linux release then.
10 Likes, Who?
The Witcher 3 was shown in their E3 Nintendo Direct thing so it appears to be true. Also getting Doom Eternal. They are pushing that little thing for all its got! ^_^
3 Likes, Who?
Avehicle7887 Jun 11, 2019
Some weird announcement about The Witcher 3 being developed for Nintendo Switch. It means they are implementing a Vulkan renderer for it after all? With Google trying to attract high profile games to Stadia, it's one step away from it. And two steps away from normal Linux release then.
Unfortunately, many devs will happily port to everything and skip Linux aside or at the very best give it lower priority. I haven't looked into how Stadia works underneath, will it require games to be Linux native to make part of it? If so, that could be a nice 2 birds 1 stone.
6 Likes, Who?
Some interesting title here. But I was hoping to see dying light 2 and borderlands 3, but time will tel I guess. Got a lot to do in dying light 1 and borderlands pre sequal anyways. :)
Last edited by Zelox on 11 June 2019 at 10:51 pm UTC
Last edited by Zelox on 11 June 2019 at 10:51 pm UTC
0 Likes
Some weird announcement about The Witcher 3 being developed for Nintendo Switch. It means they are implementing a Vulkan renderer for it after all? With Google trying to attract high profile games to Stadia, it's one step away from it. And two steps away from normal Linux release then.
Unfortunately, many devs will happily port to everything and skip Linux aside or at the very best give it lower priority. I haven't looked into how Stadia works underneath, will it require games to be Linux native to make part of it? If so, that could be a nice 2 birds 1 stone.
AFAIK it runs on Linux and AMD hardware (not sure about the actual driver stack) and uses Vulkan.
So no requirement of a Linux client build but it should be low hanging grapes.
But this does *OFC* not mean we will see significantly more of those games on Linux.
The market share of Linux users is still small and probably not worth it for most of the AAA publishers.
Would be great though, but don't hold your breath.
0 Likes
GeoGalvanic Jun 11, 2019
What about Stadia news and all the games that will be running on stadia?
0 Likes
What about Stadia news and all the games that will be running on stadia?Added newly announced.
It was great to have this summary page. Thanks.You're welcome! :)
Call me a Negative Nancy, but I'm not impressed. I wouldn't call any of those titles "big", except maybe Wasteland.Not sure what you were realistically expecting? E3 has traditionally never had "big" Linux announcements. Again, it's why Steam Play was created to help with the lack of AAA.
2 Likes, Who?
I'm really curious if we see any benefits in the future through Stadia. Be it direct or indirect. Though it's Linux powered, I'm afraid it's all a black box. So if we hear that Uplay+ will come to Stadia, I'd imagine, wow, they must have Linux versions of their games, so they could publish them on Steam? But I doubt they've ported their catalogue to Linux, so if they don't share any insight, we won't know how this works under the hood. Maybe they are wrapping it with wine/proton. Or Google has its own wrapper.
This causes again a kind of "meh" feeling... Microsoft acquiring more studios that used to release Linux versions, Epic catching more games for exclusivity and thus not giving us Linux version (in the first place), etc... but on the other hand this is really a high level of complaining. We do have many games to play, and until the Linux market share doesn't increase, it won't become a better situation for us. It's just this... "I want it too" thing. The new and shiny cool stuff. And someone else took it, so it's out of our reach.
Well, let's keep buying our games on Steam, so they keep improving Proton and we can at least play most of the Singleplayer things. I mean, even Microsoft is publishing big things on Steam, so chances are good we can play it via Proton...
https://twitter.com/flibitijibibo/status/1105585595038998533
This causes again a kind of "meh" feeling... Microsoft acquiring more studios that used to release Linux versions, Epic catching more games for exclusivity and thus not giving us Linux version (in the first place), etc... but on the other hand this is really a high level of complaining. We do have many games to play, and until the Linux market share doesn't increase, it won't become a better situation for us. It's just this... "I want it too" thing. The new and shiny cool stuff. And someone else took it, so it's out of our reach.
Well, let's keep buying our games on Steam, so they keep improving Proton and we can at least play most of the Singleplayer things. I mean, even Microsoft is publishing big things on Steam, so chances are good we can play it via Proton...
https://twitter.com/flibitijibibo/status/1105585595038998533
1 Likes, Who?
The thing to remember about Stadia is that games do have to run on Linux. It's literally Debian under the hood. However, most AAA titles have high levels of abstraction for APIs, since they often run on Windows, PS4, Xbox, Switch and some on Mac, so getting it on Linux with Vulkan for bigger studios isn't going to be a lot of trouble.
1 Likes, Who?
Hope that Cyberpunk 2077 will work fine with either wine or steamplay quickly. Will make 2020 great for linux if so. I'm kindly lobbying for that on forum & cie
Also expect on the same scheme (if we do not have a native port): Phoenix point, Vampire: the Mascarade 2, Rune 2 (enjoy the first a looong time ago on a Suse ^^), biomutant, detroit become human, minecraft dungeons
Also expect on the same scheme (if we do not have a native port): Phoenix point, Vampire: the Mascarade 2, Rune 2 (enjoy the first a looong time ago on a Suse ^^), biomutant, detroit become human, minecraft dungeons
0 Likes
me too, i would say even my last year disappointment! But let's bet on steamplay or wine? :S:Phoenix pointI'm still sad.
0 Likes
I noticed a lot of familiar names in the Marvel's Avenger trailer. This may be one where Feral could be hired for the Stadia work, which would make it an easy target for Linux support as well.
1 Likes, Who?
This and Outer Wilds... though the latter will come to Steam, and hopefully plays well at least with Proton.me too, i would say even my last year disappointment! But let's bet on steamplay or wine? :S:Phoenix pointI'm still sad.
But those two made me think twice before crowdfunding projects that promised a Linux version... and Bloodstained...
0 Likes
I'm really curious if we see any benefits in the future through Stadia. Be it direct or indirect.I've long used streaming game services and have hoped and predicted it would be the future of, if not hardcore gaming, then casual gaming. I could easily see parents getting it for their kids rather than more expensive hardware. I also think it'll be great for Linux, as it'll allow us to play almost everything. I tried the streaming tech demo that Google had going a few months, and it worked really well. That said, a few things:
- Almost none of the Stadia titles announced so far, save for perhaps the Ghost Recon title, appeal to me at all...
- I don't find the Stadia pricing model tremendously appealing either...
- I originally thought Google was doing their Fiber ISP to lay the groundwork for services just like Stadia. Makes them backing off of it really strange, and possibly could sabotage its own efforts... I was almost sure we'd eventually see a bundle of, "Subscribe to the Fiber service, and get 6 months of Stadia free!"
- I was disappointed at the lack of focus in MS's streaming service announcements yesterday, as I was hoping they would be coming out strong given all their exclusive properties and studios...
Great article about the lack of detail in the MS announcement as well as some challenges to streaming (1 T of data use in 4K streaming after 65 hrs! Try that with your cable data cap!) at a Verge article here.
Last edited by iiari on 12 June 2019 at 8:57 am UTC
0 Likes
You forgot the Smach Z in the list, which was primarily meant as a Linux device.
2 Likes, Who?
Patreon
PayPal
See more from me