Gamer Goo for Sweaty Hands: Does it Work? - Boiling Steam

Something that I’ve had since childhood is sweaty hands all year-round. Not sure what the cause is, but Gamer Goo is advertised as being able to prevent sweaty hands for a better grip on a controller, allowing a better gameplay… <a...

GabeN Confident About the Steam Deck's Future - Boiling Steam

So the Steam Deck has just launched, and IGN had the good idea to reconnect with GabeN to collect some of his thoughts about the device, as well as asking him what he thinks of the Ukraine conflict. Nah, that… <a...

A Day before Launch, The Steam Deck Has Almost 800 Games Ready (Playable and Verified) - Boiling Steam

As expected we should be reaching 1000 titles playable for the Steam Deck before the end of the month. We are now at 783 titles at the time of writing, just before the official launch scheduled for the 25th of… <a...

All Hands on Deck: Preparing for the Steam Deck - Boiling Steam

The end times are nigh! There is a lot of hype for a handheld Linux gaming device from Valve, that Steam Deck you’ve been hearing about. I have to admit, after being curious but not completely on board at the… <a...

View Your Steam Deck Compatible Games through Steam - Boiling Steam

We’re less than three days from the official launch of the Steam Deck (less than 51 hours left in EST) and Valve, in addition to partnering with iFixit to offer replacement parts, has now made an official tool to view… <a...

More than 720 Games (Playable and Verified) Ready for the Steam Deck Now - Boiling Steam

The verification dance continues for the Steam Deck. We have now passed 720 titles (725 at the time of writing) after a big push today. Now you have, split in two categories: Steam Deck Verified: 398 titles Steam Deck Playable:… <a...

Ryujinx: Great Strides With Vulkan - Boiling Steam

Nintendo Switch emulation, as great as it has already been, is getting even more spectacular. Today, the progress report for Ryujinx — one of the Nintendo Switch emulators available on Linux/PC — has been released for the month of January.… <a...

Podcast #16 With Luke Short: Steam on ChromeOS is Coming & How Steam Deck will change Linux Gaming - Boiling Steam

So we talked to Luke Short back around the end of December 2021, and while it’s a little delayed, we finally get to publish that conversation as a podcast. Luke Short has been very active in tracking the likely Steam… <a...

Submerged: Hidden Depths - A Relaxing Experience - Boiling Steam

Submerged: Hidden Depths isn’t your typical game, where you explore, fight off enemies, then move on to the next area. The exploration is part of the game’s experience, but there’s no enemies to be had here. Please note that, even… <a...

Proton 7.0-1: A Major Milestone for Linux Gaming - Boiling Steam

The last time we saw a stable Proton release was 6.3-8 back in November. Today, we have yet another noteworthy release, with many more games being playable. As you can figure out by the name of the release version, Wine… <a...

New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients - 2022-02-15 Edition - Boiling Steam

Between 2022-02-08 and 2022-02-15 there were 34 new Steam games with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 260 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 13.1 % of total released… <a...

iFixit: Teardown of Steam Deck and Now An Authorized Seller of Steam Deck Parts - Boiling Steam

For a long time, we were wondering when Steam Deck replacement parts were going to be available. Valve said at the Steam Deck conference that they were going to sell them at some point, but we didn’t know when or… <a...

CheckMyDeck - Steam Deck Verified at a Glance - Boiling Steam

While SteamDB is a great website to see which titles have been Steam Deck Verfied, there’s a new kid around the block — CheckMyDeck. This website allows you to quickly see what titles are Verified or not, based on the… <a...

Top 5 Predictions for Linux Gaming in 2022 - Boiling Steam

After collecting individual predictions for Linux gaming in 2022, let’s try to look at what the combined predictions look like as well, as we typically see that combining predictions among several people provides better accuracy on average (i.e....

Portal Series Coming to Nintendo Switch... But Why? - Boiling Steam

So Valve is porting the Portal series to the Nintendo Switch. Why would they help a competitor as they enter the handheld market in a few weeks?

Proton vs Native: Is There Really A Difference? - Boiling Steam

Much of the endless back and forth about Linux Gaming comes down to this: is there really a difference between native and tools like Proton?

Proton vs Native: Is There Really A Difference? - Boiling Steam

Much of the endless back and forth about Linux Gaming comes down to this: is there really a difference between native and tools like Proton?

New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients - 2022-02-08 Edition - Boiling Steam

Between 2022-02-01 and 2022-02-08 there were 23 new native Linux Steam games released. For reference, during the same time, there were 136 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 16.9 % of total released titles.…...

Top 10 New Games You Can Play on Linux with Proton - Feb 2022 Edition - Boiling Steam

Boiling Steam looks at the latest data dumps from ProtonDB to give you a list of new games that work perfectly on Linux with Proton since Jan 2022

Cyberpunk 2077 Running Great On the Steam Deck! - Boiling Steam

This is just another quick post as new leaks keep coming up from different sources. This time it’s a video of someone playing Cyberpunk 2077 on the Steam Deck. It’s not clear what are the settings used, nevertheless even on… <a...