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
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
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
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
Solus is a relatively new distro that took off a few years ago, not based on any other major distro branch out there – actually built from scratch. It used to be a very popular option for gaming as it… Continue Reading
7000 titles confirmed working out of the box on Proton? That’s all very fine, yes sir, but what if you don’t care about quantity? What if one considers ONLY the most desirable Top 50 games (based on popularity) out there,… Continue Reading
Discord: the clear winner in easy text and voice chat in the gaming space. But Discord is not private (encrypted or self-hostable), and while they support open source projects, it is not itself open source. It works well and you… Continue Reading
When Rocket League was acquired by Epic Games, we kind of knew the writing was on the wall: at some point the game would become exclusive to the Epic Games Store, and kicked out of Steam. This happened at the… Continue Reading
Great news, racing fans. Just four months after the release of DIRT 5, I can confirm the game works fine using the latest commit of vkd3d-proton. Here’s the rundown for how it works: Use the following launch parameter for the… Continue Reading
March, here we are! And just like in the last month, Boiling Steam looks at the latest data dumps from ProtonDB to give you a quick list of new games that work (pretty much?) perfectly with Proton since February 2021… Continue Reading