March 30th, 2017. Just when you thought Q1 was over with, it comes back and kicks your ass. In the past 24 hours, you get a world-class event with SpaceX’s first successful reflight of their Falcon 9 launcher. On Linux,… Continue Reading
Ballistic Overkill, the fast-paced, PvP first-person-shooter by Aquiris Game Studio, has left Early Access as of a few days ago, with a couple of new features to boot. Besides this game, Aquiris has also produced Horizon Chase, an old-school racer for… Continue Reading
While you may be following BoilingSteam, are you familiar with some of the links we share at the top right hand corner of the page? There is one page, called Recommended Games, which features our list of games that we… Continue Reading
Have you ever played Fez on Linux ? Transistor ? Speed Runners ? Shenzen I/O ? Bastion ? or more recently, Owlboy ? Well if you have, you have benefited from the work of Flibitijibibo who is directly responsible for… Continue Reading
There was much talk among big AAA games in the past few months (for good reasons), but we should not forget that there has been a bunch of other games that have recently made it to Linux. I won’t go… Continue Reading
I was just mentioning a few days ago the results of the Q1 2016 survey conducted among the Linux gaming communities on Reddit, and as a follow-up we have posted the new survey late last week to generate data for… Continue Reading
It’s about time we share the analysis of that Q1 2016 survey (fielding occured in March last year), especially as we are about to launch the Q1 2017 one pretty, pretty soon. That way we will be able to compare… Continue Reading
As you know Codeweavers (and other WINE contributors) have been working on DX11 support for a while – they were supposed to have DX11 support by the end of 2016, but as with all complex projects, timelines tend to slip… Continue Reading
Hey, here’s another game genre that gets some kind of revival! Rally games used to be plentiful in my days (Sega Rally in arcades… and on consoles, remember V-Rally, Colin McRae Rally on PS1 ?? Gran Turismo 2 even had… Continue Reading
There was already some hints a while back (read: 2015) that Telltales had some interest in supporting Linux as a platform, and apparently already had some beta of Minecraft: Story Mode running on Linux (even though I never made it… Continue Reading