Time for another little roundup of what's going on with Google Stadia lately.
Missed our first impressions of Stadia? Check them out here.
First up we have a delay, with Marvel's Avengers that was due to release in May being pushed back until September. According to Crystal Dynamics, they said this is to "spend this additional development time focusing on fine tuning and polishing the game to the high standards our fans expect and deserve"—fair enough. It's expected to release on Stadia at the same time as other platforms.
More exciting though: id Software and Bethesda have confirmed that DOOM Eternal is releasing on March 20 and it will be available on Stadia for easy access. See the trailer below, looks absolutely insane:
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Something also interesting is that Anna Kipnis, a Senior Prototyper & Game Designer at Google (who is also on the Stadia Star Labs research team), will be doing a talk at GDC 2020 in March titled "Machine Learning Summit: Creating Game AI by Using Mostly English, with Semantic ML". This is a feature Google are hoping to pull into Stadia, to have more interesting/smarter AI.
What other games should be coming to Stadia this year? Here's a few:
- Baldur's Gate 3 (not entirely clear if this year)
- Cyberpunk 2077
- DOOM
- Destroy All Humans!
- Gods and Monsters
- Monster Energy Supercross 3
- SUPERHOT
- The Crew 2
- Tom Clancy's The Division 2
- Watch Dogs: Legion
- Windjammers 2
Stadia's biggest test is still ahead, with the wider release of the Stadia Base account sometime early this year. Currently only people who've purchased the Founders (and their Buddy Pass invites) or Premier edition have access. When Stadia Base launches, anyone across Linux (and macOS/Windows) will be able to load up Chromium and play games on it.
It's closing in though, Google have started tested Stadia on non-Pixel mobile devices which is likely one of the big things holding it up. Once that's sorted, Stadia Base probably won't be too far away. Once there is a date, we'll let you know.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
spesk 15 Jan 2020
With that said, I still like reading about it and am glad it's covered by GoL. It's a good place to read about news regarding it, especially when within the context of this niche community. I also enjoy the debate in the comments!
Thanks for covering!
Liam Dawe 15 Jan 2020
Then you have to buy their hardware, which was advertised for 130$ iirc.Just to be clear, you don't need to buy anything for Stadia. You only need to now, as Stadia Base isn't out, which is what's noted in the article. Even when it's out, you don't need to buy their official gamepad - plenty work with it as do mouse and keyboard. All was covered in my initial thoughts article.
PopeRigby 15 Jan 2020
Shmerl 15 Jan 2020
I just hope we can have a native Linux port for Doom Eternal. It seems unlikely, but not impossible.
Bethesda is a legacy publisher, so I wouldn't expect anything from them. What we can expect, are desktop Linux versions form normal publishers and developers. Someone like Larian for example. Or may be CD Projekt Red, though the later are shifting to the side of legacy publishers gradually, which is sad.
Last edited by Shmerl on 15 Jan 2020 at 7:41 pm UTC
Shmerl 16 Jan 2020
Why even bother mentioning Cyberpunk 2077? That's, like, more than fifty years from now. Talk about slow development.
I don't think it's going to be hard for them to port it around, if they are already using Vulkan. But there is no info at all on their current progress, so it's all really a speculation at this point.
Last edited by Shmerl on 16 Jan 2020 at 2:09 am UTC
I'm thinking you missed the joke.Why even bother mentioning Cyberpunk 2077? That's, like, more than fifty years from now. Talk about slow development.
I don't think it's going to be hard for them to port it around, if they are already using Vulkan. But there is no info at all on their current progress, so it's all really a speculation at this point.
Shmerl 17 Jan 2020
PopeRigby 18 Jan 2020
I just hope we can have a native Linux port for Doom Eternal. It seems unlikely, but not impossible.
Bethesda is a legacy publisher, so I wouldn't expect anything from them. What we can expect, are desktop Linux versions form normal publishers and developers. Someone like Larian for example. Or may be CD Projekt Red, though the later are shifting to the side of legacy publishers gradually, which is sad.
I definitely don't have my hopes up.
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