Splitgate News

Halo plus portals FPS Splitgate delays launch after surprisingly popular beta

Free-to-play FPS Splitgate was planning to move from beta to full launch tomorrow but there's been a bit of a snag. It turns out that "Halo plus portals" was too popular a concept, raking in 2 million downloads during its open beta. So many people jumped in to take a turn with cross-platform team portal shooting that 1047 Games say they're delaying full launch of the game until next month while they work to scale up their available servers for all those players.

The free-to-play "Portal meets Halo" FPS Splitgate has been around on PC for a couple of years now, during which time it's struggled to maintain a player base. According to Steam Charts, a reasonably strong launch in May 2019 quickly tailed off to an average monthly concurrent player count of just over 100. Things started to pick up a bit in late 2020, but over the past week the player count has exploded, to the point that it can be very difficult to matchmake into a game...
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Looks like Splitgate will be the next 'big thing' FPS supported on Linux

Splitgate released official native Linux support recently when the open Beta went live, and it seems to be hitting it big pulling in plenty of regular players.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/07/looks-like-splitgate-will-be-the-next-big-thing-fps-supported-on-linux

Splitgate the FPS with portals (formerly Splitgate: Arena Warfare) is confirmed for Linux

Splitgate, originally called Splitgate: Arena Warfare, is going through a huge overhaul and relaunching on July 27 and now Linux support is confirmed.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/07/splitgate-the-fps-with-portals-formerly-splitgate-arena-warfare-is-confirmed-for-linux

Splitgate's newest map is an homage to the Unreal Tournament classic Facing Worlds

Splitgate, the underrated arena FPS that's basically Halo if everyone carried around a portal gun, is in the middle of a total refresh. Not only is it coming to consoles with full crossplay support in July, but three new maps are on the way, one of which will look especially interesting to classic Unreal Tournament fans...
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