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Year: 2021

How Boiling Steam Games: 4 Gaming Rigs

BY podiki April 18, 2021 2 Comments
Gaming Hardware

Computer games are made possible, of course, by the hardware that runs them, whether it is the indie that just needs a bare-bones machine or the latest AAA game on a high res, high refresh rate monitor. On Linux these… Continue Reading →

Hardware hardware

Rome Total War Remastered Ships in 10 Days

BY Ekianjo April 18, 2021 Leave a Comment
rome total war remastered

In just about 10 days from now, Rome Total War Remastered will be released on Steam (29th of April). It’s a fairly old game in the Total War series, but this time around the Remaster is not some half-assed effort… Continue Reading →

Feral Interactive, Game Port, Games, Porting Companies, Steam

Steam Tinker Launcher: Making Tinkering Much Easier

BY Ekianjo April 17, 2021 4 Comments

Ever heard of Steam Tinker Launcher? If I have to go by the preliminary results of the Linux Gamer survey (still open by the way!), most of you have not. It is a tool that helps you to launch your… Continue Reading →

Software, Steam

Sid Meier: More than Just Civilization

BY Ekianjo April 16, 2021 1 Comment

Let’s face it. The video games world is not getting any younger, and the most famous creators of yesterday are now well past 60. Sid Meier is no exception. I picked up his memoir and it was a good read.… Continue Reading →

Games, Random Opinions

Solus Has Resolved Issues with Recent Proton Builds

BY Ekianjo April 13, 2021 Leave a Comment
solus distribution linux

A little while ago I pointed that Solus users (at least several, myself included) were experiencing issues to run modern versions of Proton following Proton 5.13 (and the introduction of the new vessel technology with Soldier). In other words, no… Continue Reading →

Distros, Proton, Software

OpenTTD Went to Steam to Solve a Hard Problem

BY Ekianjo April 11, 2021 13 Comments

OpenTTD, the free and open-source software recreation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, has been a popular game for a long time, but recently something unusual happened. The team behind the project decided to release the game on Steam (still free as… Continue Reading →

Games, Original Game, Random Opinions, Steam

King of Seas: Preview on Linux (Proton)

BY Ekianjo April 10, 2021 Leave a Comment

King of Seas is an upcoming Pirates!-like title to be released in May 2021 on PC. I had the opportunity to try a closed-demo version of the game back in December 2020, so here’s my first impressions. Playtime was limited… Continue Reading →

Games, Proton, Software

Our New Linux Gamer Survey for 2021 is Out!

BY Ekianjo April 10, 2021 Leave a Comment
survey

We are back with with a survey! To be fair, it’s been a while we did not conduct a new one. But it’s time. There’s been sufficient changes in the past few years to justify checking once again where we… Continue Reading →

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Top New Games You Can Play With Proton Since Mar. 2021

BY Ekianjo April 4, 2021 Leave a Comment
century age of ashes works on Proton

Already April – it’s a rainy day here, so I thought I might as well give everyone the usual monthly update! Boiling Steam looks at the latest data dumps from ProtonDB to give you a quick list of new games… Continue Reading →

Software, Games, Proton, WINE, WINE

Valve Releases Proton 6.3

BY Ekianjo April 3, 2021 Leave a Comment
original sin 2 runs on Proton 6.3

We knew it was coming, and here it is: the latest Proton now rebased on top of WINE 6.3 (dating from end of February, so Proton is behind the dev branch by a month or so). Proton 6.3 should now… Continue Reading →

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