Today Google did a new Stadia Connect video for their gaming service, which was pre-recorded due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation. Google confirmed a bunch more games coming including from EA, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is out now and more.
What is Stadia? Stadia is Google's game streaming service powered by Linux and Vulkan. You can play games in a Chromium browser on a Linux desktop. It's now open to everyone in the 14 supported countries, with two months of Stadia Pro free when you sign up.
That's right, as of now you can play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on Linux in a web browser, and the icing on that particular cake is it's playable free with Stadia Pro - so uh, basically everyone who can access it has it. I've had a quick blast on it as soon as it was announced, and it works well. The graphical quality is clearly on the lower side though. Also, it's cross-platform online play too with consoles!
Also available now on Stadia are
- OCTOPATH TRAVELER
- Get Packed
Google also announced the games coming to Stadia Pro (free to claim) in May which will be:
- SteamWorld Heist
- The Turing Test
- Zombie Army 4
One of the bigger announcements today was also Crayta, a collaborative game-creation platform that will be an exclusive First on Stadia title - releasing this Summer. Check out the trailer:
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I think my kid is going to love that.
More confirmed upcoming games:
- Embr - an Early Access title - releasing May 21st.
- Orcs Must Die! 3 - releasing this Summer.
- Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break - releasing this June.
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - sometime this Autumn.
- Wavebreak - an exclusive First on Stadia title - releasing this Summer.
Plus multiple EA sports titles later in Winter 2020.
You can see the Stadia Connect video below:
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Google are really starting to bring in the big games now. I've long wanted to play PUBG, and now thanks to Stadia I can do so on all my Linux machines. Being able to play some huge games, right in a browser with no downloading needed is certainly a selling point and Stadia has become a regular platform for me because of the ease of use. As more big games appear, perhaps even more people will be won over by it.
If you wish to play games on Stadia, simply head over to the official site. They're also now using a feature they talked about before releasing, with an instant link (for PUBG) to send you into a game.
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Quoting: GuestQuoting: Comandante ÑoñardoEA porting games to Linux? Nah!
I bet EA use some compatibility layer like Proton.... Even Proton itself.
EA use Frostbite for a lot of things, and despite some interesting challenges that I've heard about with it, does seemingly support quite a range of renderers.
Take this for example:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-frostbite-engine-apparently-has-partial-linux-support-but-that-doesnt-mean-well-get-ports-anytime-soon.10310/page=3
(--edit: EA are also a Khronos member, specifically for Vulkan)
(--bonus edit: and don't forget this - https://www.ea.com/seed/news/khronos-munich-2018-halcyon-vulkan )
Also, the games aren't ported to desktop GNU/Linux. They're ported to Stadia, and Google does have some level of necessary build steps, quality, and performance to be applied which make wine (or any bundled package based on wine) unsuitable. Stadia is a single hardware target, with a backing company for support, making it not so different to releasing on consoles.
And actually Stadia isn't even trying to go against Windows from a certain point of view. Most of the prospective playerbase are going to be using Stadia via a Windows machine, with some percentage via chromecast or similar. EA essentially don't need to provide much in the way of support to players either, because there's no direct contact with them (it all goes via Google), so there won't be much ongoing investment. It's a one-off per game really, and not even that because the bulk of the effort doesn't need to be redone for each individual game. The ROI can take a bit longer and still be financially viable.
holy shit! i saw those back in the days, and completely forgot! it makes total sense now!
so, EA added vulkan support and linux support in order to support Stadia, not google.
and as you said, once they ported the engine, porting individual games is a no brainer, the cost to port the games get lower on each relase and the engine cost is diluted on each relase.
so it was not about steam OS after all...
now that we are speaking about it, google may use this oportunity to rise chromeOS marketshare, but i'm afraid that comnpanies now will be less likely to make an linux version of their games or to licence then to port houses like feral.
i mean, just think about it, google is paying then a lot of money to port, why would then port or licence it without such investment?
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Quoting: elmapulThis though assumes that Google has access to and rights to distribute those Windows builds. As for Stadia exclusive games, there are no Windows builds.Quoting: dubigrasui think he is afraid of cloud lock-in, so even an windows build is better than nothingQuoting: GuestWhen Google introduces a option to Download the games not just streaming i might consider using it.Not sure how this would work. Since they have and use Linux builds, the option to download the game would mean nothing to the vast majority of their users. And even for us, those exact Linux builds might not work at all.
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Mohandevir Apr 29, 2020
Tried it yesterday with my Steam controller... It works well, as a K+M, but I didn't try with SC-Controller driver. Still, since I'm not a a fan of Online PvP shooters, there is not much games, in the Pro subscription, that got my interrest. Played a little of SteamWorld Quest... Nice game with great performances (no lag, stutter or stream degradations). Didn't try the hardware decoding tricks though. Wanted to see what it was like, with the ootb chromium experience. Quite a positive one, for my specific use case (wired ethernet connexion, on Ryzen 3600).
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Mohandevir Apr 29, 2020
Just a vague idea.. Could be nice if someone was able to create a Stadia dedicated app that uses Chromium in kiosk mode with all the tweaks... But I'm probably talking through my hat.
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Quoting: MohandevirJust a vague idea.. Could be nice if someone was able to create a Stadia dedicated app that uses Chromium in kiosk mode with all the tweaks... But I'm probably talking through my hat.
Already happened as an electron app. However, electron does not support extensions, which means no Stadia+.
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@Mohandevir
Give Destiny a chance though. I also don't care about PvP, but Destiny also has a campaign, a great story to follow.
Is true that is somewhat buried into all that PvP crap and diluted by tons of boring mindless quests (bring me 10 of these and 5 of that, kill 12 robot dudes etc) but eventually you'll learn to avoid the PvP stuff and stick to the awesome part.
There's tons of fantastic places to discover and explore, some beautiful, some horrible and is basically a huge world of planets filled with mysteries of all kind, magic and science combined.
I just finished the main story (or I think I did?) and now choose my quests carefully, I only fully explored Io and some other planets partially, and there's still a lot of adventures in front of me.
I still participate in some public events from time to time, but is just basically what I would describe as "sterile fun". You just disconnect your brain and push buttons on your gamepad.
Give Destiny a chance though. I also don't care about PvP, but Destiny also has a campaign, a great story to follow.
Is true that is somewhat buried into all that PvP crap and diluted by tons of boring mindless quests (bring me 10 of these and 5 of that, kill 12 robot dudes etc) but eventually you'll learn to avoid the PvP stuff and stick to the awesome part.
There's tons of fantastic places to discover and explore, some beautiful, some horrible and is basically a huge world of planets filled with mysteries of all kind, magic and science combined.
I just finished the main story (or I think I did?) and now choose my quests carefully, I only fully explored Io and some other planets partially, and there's still a lot of adventures in front of me.
I still participate in some public events from time to time, but is just basically what I would describe as "sterile fun". You just disconnect your brain and push buttons on your gamepad.
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Mohandevir Apr 29, 2020
Quoting: dubigrasu...Destiny also has a campaign, a great story to follow.
Didn't know about that. Except for the name and the fact that it's an online shooter, I didn't know much about Destiny, anyway. The fact that there is no Linux desktop build is enough for me to block out all knowledge of a game from my mind. Destiny fell into that category, up until now...
I'll give it a chance then. Thanks for your insight.
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Mohandevir Apr 29, 2020
What could tip the balance, for me, being a Canadian/Habs hockey fan... EA Sports NHL... That's the only reason I could consider keeping an active account on Stadia and sports ips are lacking a lot on PC, in general and even more on Steam.
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Quoting: MohandevirWhat could tip the balance, for me, being a Canadian/Habs hockey fan... EA Sports NHL... That's the only reason I could consider keeping an active account on Stadia and sports ips are lacking a lot on PC, in general and even more on Steam.A fellow Canuck, eh? I lived in Montreal for just a few years when I was a kid--it would have been 1970-77 or so. The Canadiens were winning and winning, it was a great time to be a Montrealais. Now I live in Vancouver, and the Canucks lose and lose. Or sometimes they do really well but crap out at the last minute. I've kinda given up.
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So, EA games are running on Linux machines, but not in ours.
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