A few weeks ago we had the opportunity to chat with Ryan Gordon, a.k.a. Icculus, about his experience and as a games porter and a wider range of subjects related to Linux. This was supposed to be a one hour… 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
Well this is already 2017 yet we have something left from 2016 to release. Our podcast conducted with our friends from Feral, that is! While it was recorded back in December, the different edits and the holidays in-between have somewhat… 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
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
As mentioned in the previous post, Shadow of Mordor finally made it to Linux thanks to Feral. Since that game includes a proper benchmark tool, we can actually compare how well this port runs versus the Windows version. Sadly, there… Continue Reading
It’s been a pretty eventful month of July for Linux gamers. We received much more than we initially expected, with a couple of very nice surprises. First, KOTOR 2 was released a couple of weeks back by Aspyr – and… Continue Reading
This Sunday morning instead of lazing around in bed with my Open Pandora, I woke up early to drop by the BitSummit 2015, an indie game event taking place in Kyoto (Japan, obviously). I think it’s the third time they… Continue Reading
Introversion software is known to be one of the few software companies to have supported Linux from the early stages, even before Steam for Linux existed officially. You may remember games such as Uplink (a kind of hacker simulator), Darwinia… Continue Reading
Following the interview conducted a couple of days ago with James Ramey from Codeweavers, we have learnt that the typical port using Codeweavers’ Crossover/WINE requires about 15 000 USD. With this kind of information, we can actually derive some rough… Continue Reading