Total War Dev Plans to Support SteamOS

The developers behind the Total War series of games, Creative Assembly, have voiced their intentions to support Valve's upcoming SteamOS platform, which is built on Linux and designed for games. 

Speaking to PCGamesN, Total War brand director Rob Bartholomew expressed his enthusiasm for SteamOS and said that there was "absolutely no reason" why the studio wouldn't port its games to the platform.

"It’s not something that’s ever particularly worried us. We port to Mac already, so we’re kind of used to porting Total War to other OSes – or at least our partners at Feral who do that Mac work for us, that’s certainly something we’re very familiar with,” he said.

“We’ve certainly got no worries about Linux as a platform, and as you know, we’ve appeared on the SteamOS page, and our intention is absolutely to support the OS.”

Bartholomew expanded upon his statement, saying that the studio would work hand-in-hand with Valve in solving any issues that crop up during the process. 

“If we ever did have any problems with that we’d certainly solve it with them. We’d obviously want to make sure that if we released a version of Rome 2 for SteamOS specifically, that it worked really nicely with the infrastructure that they’ve got planned for that,” he said.