Valve Announces Handheld Linux Gaming with The Steam Deck Launching in 2021
Valve just announced a new handheld gaming device running Linux, the Steam Deck. Since I know the first question you’ll have, yes it is running Arch (SteamOS 3.0), with KDE Plasma and a custom Steam...
View ArticleHorizon Zero Dawn Review (with Proton on Linux)
Technology and automation. We’re surrounded by it. Most of us, with the general exception of the older generation, take it for granted. How often do you get an email, a text, a phone call, or even a...
View ArticleSteam Deck: 6 New Points You Need to Know
The Steam Deck is an exciting device for numerous reasons, and we will keep giving you updates as we keep learning about some additional details as they come. In the past week, several additional...
View ArticleUsing FSR To Boost Any Game’s Framerate on Linux
Ever heard of the little war between AMD and Nvidia regarding upscaling technologies? Nvidia has DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and AMD has recently released FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution)....
View ArticleTop 10 New Games To Enjoy With Proton Since July 2021
We are back with our usual monthly update! Boiling Steam looks at the latest data dumps from ProtonDB to give you a quick list of new games that work (pretty much?) perfectly with Proton since July...
View ArticleLinux Gaming Predictions for 2021: What Did You Think Back in April?
Here’s another look at the survey results as collected back in April 2021. After looking at cloud gaming trends, hardware choice between AMD and Nvidia, and the usage of different game stores, we will...
View ArticleWhich Linux Distro For Gaming? Q2 2021 Survey Results
Here is yet another post about the survey we have conducted back in Q2 2021 (April to be precise) with close to 2000 Linux Gamers. This time we will focus on the Linux distro of choice of respondents...
View ArticleSteam Deck: “The start of a golden age for Linux Gaming”
After the release of the podcast released with James Ramey from Codeweavers a few days ago where we talked at length about the Steam Deck, here is full transcript as promised! Have a good read, you...
View ArticleDiscover the Top 9 New Games to Play on Linux With Proton Since August 2021
We are back with our usual monthly update! Boiling Steam looks at the latest data dumps from ProtonDB to give you a quick list of new games that work (pretty much?) perfectly with Proton since August...
View ArticleSteam Top 50 Games: 72% Work on Linux in Sept. 2021
This is an update on the Steam Top 50 current situation, since we checked back in March how things were at the top of the charts – it used to be 70% of games working out of the box. Well, we took a...
View ArticleHow I Built My New Linux Gaming Desktop in 2021 with AMD (CPU+GPU) and GNU Guix
After my unexpected luck in getting a new GPU (the AMD 6700XT), it was finally time to build a new computer. While my previous desktop was still ticking, at 6 and a half years old (an Intel i5-4690K,...
View ArticleSteam Deck: Official Anti-Cheat Support Incoming in 2021
This past week has been rich in announcements regarding anti-cheat support for the Steam Deck… and Proton at large. In a matter of days, we have received the confirmation first that EAC (owned by...
View ArticleInstalling Mods for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (NASB) on Linux
It’s been a few weeks since the release of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (NASB). While some media outlets have criticized the game for lacking voice-overs, extra character skins, having a generic...
View ArticleYuzu (Switch Emulator): Introducing Project ART
Shortly after the interview with GDKChan — creator of the Ryujinx Switch emulator — was published, one of the developers of Yuzu, the competing Switch emulator, contacted me and asked if I would be...
View ArticlePopular Tools of Linux Gamers in 2021
We are progressively reaching the end of our Q2 2021 survey analysis articles. This time we look at the usage of a specific set of tools among Linux Gamers. We wanted to know how many people were...
View ArticleDiscover the Top 14 New Games to Play on Linux With Proton Since October 2021
We are back with our usual monthly update! Boiling Steam looks at the latest data dumps from ProtonDB to give you a quick list of new games that work (pretty much?) perfectly with Proton since October...
View ArticleEpic Chef: A Cooking Quest of Epic Proportions
Do you enjoy cooking? It’s practically in my family blood. In Epic Chef — developed by Infinigon Games and published by Team17 — you’re playing a game and basically doing the same thing, except it’s a...
View ArticleSteam Deck and Proton: Good & Bad Times Ahead
Steam was released as a beta for Linux nine years ago. While Linux gaming was a niche within a niche before that time, in the years since, gaming on Linux has been only getting better and more...
View ArticleI Love Arch, But GNU Guix Is My New Distro
I wrote recently about building my new gaming desktop where, if you weren’t blinded by all the lights, I also noted that I’ve moved from Arch to GNU Guix as my distro of choice. Why? And what is Guix?...
View ArticleBox86 Can Now Run Crysis on ARM with DXVK
Box64, the FOSS that makes it possible to translate x86_64 (amd64) instructions to arm64 instructions, and Box86, handing the translation of 32 bits x86 instructions to ARM, have a new release,...
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