14 DAY TRIAL // Feral Interactive has confirmed that is working on three new games for the Linux platform and they are Batman: Arkham Knight, GRID Autosport, and Company of Heroes 2.
Valve already announced all of these games for the Linux platform, but it wasn't clear who will do the porting process. It was easy to guess that Batman: Arkham Knight, which has Warner Bros. as the publisher, would go to a studio like Feral Interactive, but the other ones were a mystery. As it turns out, both GRID Autosport and Company of Heroes 2 will be ported by the same studio, for SteamOS, Ubuntu, and Mac OS.
All of these games are triple A titles that will be quite difficult to port to the Linux systems. They have complex engines and a ton of middleware, which will have to be ported as well, so the developers haven't provided a launch date for either of the titles.
This is just the tip of the iceberg
The SteamOS sale that revealed that all of these games and more were coming to Linux was made during the GDC 2015 event in San Francisco, and it shows that Valve wants to have as many games ready just in time for the release of Steam Machines this November as possible.
"Batman: Arkham Knight is the explosive finale to Rocksteady’s Arkham trilogy, in which Batman must save the city he is sworn to protect from Scarecrow’s diabolical plan, GRID Autosport immerses players in the thrilling world of professional motorsport with a huge career mode that spans 22 spectacular locations around the world, and Company of Heroes 2 is a real-time strategy game that challenges players to become a commander of the Soviet Red Army on the Eastern Front in 1941," read the official announcement from Feral Interactive.
The Steam for Linux platform has just passed the 1000 games mark, so it's likely that we'll have many more updates like this one.