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A First Look At the Smach Zero SteamOS Portable Console
Following the announcement at E3, we have learnt that the previous project known as the SteamBoy has now been renamed as Smach Zero. And it’s still planned to be the first SteamOS portable device to be...
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Codeweavers On DX11 in WINE, Steam Machines & Porting
Last week, following the announcement that Codeweavers would soon provide DirectX11 support for games and applications, I decided to get in touch with James Ramey, President of Codeweavers, in order to...
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Introversion Software Talks About The Linux Market
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...
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So, Who Are The Linux Gamers?
Remember that survey I encouraged you guys to join back in the second quarter of 2015 ? Well the results are out now! I was supposed to finish the analysis by July, but I was delayed like good Old’...
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Who Will Physically Sell Steam Machines
If you live in the US this may be some relevant news for you: according to Wired, GameStop will be the official distributor for Steam Machines in the USA. GAME UK will do the same in the UK, as well as...
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ZOTAC Unveils its NEN Steam Machine
November 10 is the date that was chosen for the official launch of SteamOS Hardware. The usual suspects are already ready and there is nothing new under the sun in terms of partners, but ZOTAC has just...
View ArticleSmach Zero, Call it Smach Z for short
There is finally official news about the Smach Zero, the portable SteamOS based console planned for 2016 (as per our earlier post). It seems like the right timing since the official launch of Steam...
View ArticleSteam Machines: A Very Quiet Launch
And so November 10 is now past. It was the official release date for SteamOS and the Steam Machines initiative. This was not like a regular console launch, with queues in the streets before the first...
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Smach Z: An Amusing KickStarter Campaign
On BoilingSteam we have been following the progress of the Smach Z (formerly Smach Zero) since the early days of the project, and while I shared a quick update ahead of their Kickstarter campaign a few...
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The Smach Z Already Out of Steam, Oh Oh
Following the start of their Kickstart campaign a couple of days ago, things have been looking worse and worse for the portable Steam Machine project. While the idea was interesting, this project has...
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An Uneventful January 2016 ?
You may have noticed there were not much news on BoilingSteam in January. Well, there are two reasons for that. First, there was not much happening in the Linux Gaming world this month. Sure, there...
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The State of Steam Machines in June 2016
While this article may sound like an answer to the recent pieces seen on Ars, or PCWorld, regarding how poorly the Steam Machines have done in the past 6 months, this could not be further from the...
View ArticleAlienware’s Steam Machines Get an Update
The magic of E3 has hit again. Among numerous useless press releases full of hype, there’s one worth noting for us Linux gamers. Dell and its subdivision Alienware have just announced that the...
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The Smach Z is Not Completely Dead
Following last year’s failed attempt to bring a portable SteamOS console to reality, the team behind Smach Z has apparently been able to get investors funding and this time came with a prototype to the...
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Alienware Exec: Steam Machines Lost Priority
PCGamer has come up with an interview with Frank Azor from Alienware (co-founder), covering the Steam Machines and the recent lack of news related to such hardware and SteamOS as a whole. After the...
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Ataribox: A New Steam Machine?
Atari has just revealed via a mailchimp newsletter than they intend to release their new retro-looking console, Ataribox, for 300$ in early 2018 (late spring). You may be wondering why we are even...
View ArticleValve Still Loves Linux, and Aims For More
A few days ago, the Steam Machines page on the Steam client suddenly disappeared while there were still some links towards a few models kind of available. Outrage! Valve is abandoning Steam Machines!...
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An Interview with Peter Mulholland, ex-VP
We tend to regard Feral and Aspyr as the key porting companies in the Linux world, yet this would be reductive. More individuals and companies dedicate themselves to porting games on Linux,...
View ArticleGaben “We Make Mistakes”
It’s going to be a short piece of news. As you probably know, Valve has recently released Half Life: Alyx as a new episode in the series, and a VR-only game at that. It’s an event in itself since...
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Steam Machines: Was it All in Vain?
I can still picture it just like it was yesterday. My colleague, pointing one finger to our new product in front of us. Asking me a simple yet subtle question: “What’s the value proposition?” “What do...
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