Get Mount&Blade for Free on GOG Now!
Just a quick note, you can get right now for a limited time Mount & Blade for free on GOG, DRM-free – It’s a game from 2008 and if you are not familiar with the series, it’s pretty much a… Continue Reading
WINE
Looks Like Overwatch Is Now Playable With Wine
And I just might be able to ditch my Windows partition after all… Great news, Blizzard fans. While it seems strange that Overwatch — easily one of my favorite games of all time — is the only game in the… Continue Reading
Puzzle Agent: A Good Clone of a Popular Game…
Well, this is unfair. Puzzle Agent is not a really clone of the Professor Layton series well known on the Nintendo platforms. It’s certainly very, very similar in about all aspects, and plays very much the same: you have an… Continue Reading
A Step-by-Step Guide to Make Controllers Work in WINE
A couple of days ago, I was enquiring with a certain WINE developer the state of controller support in WINE. I was surprised they were actually working on a native solution, yet not shocked to hear that for now, a… Continue Reading
Upcoming Native Xinput Support in WINE
If you have ever looked at playing games on Linux through WINE, you are probably aware by now that there’s a bunch of hacks involved to getting a Xbox360 pad to work with games. Usually this means grabbing an older… Continue Reading
What’s New Since April ?
That’s a valid question since I was more or less off for the past 3 weeks ! There’s actually quite a few things to talk about, so let’s make sure we did not miss anything. First, there has been quite… Continue Reading
Trails in the Sky: Making It Work on Linux
Trails in the Sky is one old Japanese Windows game (2004) which is very well rated among Japanese RPGs. There was even a PSP version later released in 2006, and two follow up episodes as well. I was just reminded… Continue Reading
It Was Not a Bad August 2015
As you know on BoilingSteam I am not really into doing 24/7 news, since there’s not always something exciting to write about every single day of the year. But on a monthly basis, we see patterns emerge, trends, and we… Continue Reading
Walking Dead (S2): Flawless on Linux
The Telltales guys make pretty good titles, and while they seem to have no problem supporting Mac/OSX at all, they are somehow very reluctant to publish anything for the Linux platform. I think this is a missed opportunity on their… Continue Reading