Why Valve all of a sudden started making hardware will always remain a mystery. Why the controller went through a couple of different designs is also a head-scratcher. What I do know is, for a measly fifty bucks (that is,… Continue Reading
I’ve never been particularly enamoured of wild west settings in games (or anything else) but Hard West’s American frontier with occultism and lovecraftian insanity (or as the game’s Steam description puts it, “supernatural chaos”) drew me in immediately. I was… Continue Reading
Very recently I was shopping for a new controller. Probably because I have an odd use case. I travel often for work these days, and while I can game a little bit on my laptop, for some games the keyboard… Continue Reading
Following the previous edition in Q2 of this year, the BoilingSteam GNU/Linux gamers survey is back. The results were out already a little while back for the previous one, and since the Steam Machines has just launched it was a… Continue Reading
And so November 10 is now past. It was the official release date for SteamOS and the Steam Machines initiative. This was not like a regular console launch, with queues in the streets before the first sale goes off. This… Continue Reading
There is finally official news about the Smach Zero, the portable SteamOS based console planned for 2016 (as per our earlier post). It seems like the right timing since the official launch of Steam Machines was yesterday. Let me break… Continue Reading
November 10 is the date that was chosen for the official launch of SteamOS Hardware. The usual suspects are already ready and there is nothing new under the sun in terms of partners, but ZOTAC has just announced its NEN… Continue Reading
Several weeks ago, a redditor started sharing some of the work that he has done regarding a potential port of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Let’s call it Stalker from now on) for Linux, following a leak of the source code last year. In… Continue Reading