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I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly checked on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly. You can also follow my personal adventures on Bluesky.

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Epic Games Helps Blender By Becoming A Sponsor

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jul 2014

Epic Games are starting to become real champions for us with porting Unreal Engine and bringing the new Unreal Tournament to us, but now they are also sponsoring the Blender project with funds too.

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Open Source Morrowind Engine OpenMW 0.31.0 Released

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jul 2014

The latest and greatest OpenMW has been released which pushed the engine even further to allow us Linux gamers to play the excellent Morrowind natively.

Ground Pounders Turn Based Strategy Now Officially Out For Linux

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jul 2014

Ground Pounders is the next game from the developers behind the Sword of the Stars series, and promises some heated turn based action. It's now out of Early Access and is fully available for Linux.

The Nightmare Cooperative Turn Based Roguelike Released For Linux

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jul 2014

The Nightmare Cooperative classes itself as a turn based strategic roguelike (I wish more developers used Procedural Death Labyrinth) that looks crisp, but is it any good? Read on to find out.

Simple Screen Recorder Updated, Recording & Live Streaming Made Easy On Linux

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jul 2014

Another of our favourite recording and live streaming applications on Linux has recently been updated, and it's time to give you a little run down on it.

Minecraft Gains Massive Performance Improvements With New Snapshot

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jul 2014

If there's one thing Minecraft needs it's better performance amongst a lot of other things. Thankfully they have been working on it, and it's already showing.

Live Streaming On Linux, Now With OBS Studio

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jul 2014

OBS Studio is a rewrite of the OBS recording and live streaming software that is currently in the early stages, but it's already very useful. It's a popular bit of kit a lot of Windows gamers use to stream their games and the rewrite OBS Studio works on Linux.

Halfway, The Excellent Looking Strategy Game Release Date Announced

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jul 2014

Exciting news readers! Halfway the beautiful looking science fiction space strategy game is going to be released this month, and they have a shiny website for the game now.

Postal 2 Linux Updates Are Now Up In The Air

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jul 2014

Sadly the big updates for Postal 2 for Linux may be a long way behind the Windows updates as Ryan "Icculus" Gordon their usual porter has now passed on their work. So, they need a new developer to help out it seems.

Torchlight & Torchlight II Look Set For Linux & Steam

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jul 2014

Morning! We begin today with some big news folks. It looks like both Torchlight & Torchlight II are due to be released on Steam for Linux.

Minions of Steel, An RTS & FPS Game Coming To Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jul 2014

Minions of Steel is an interesting looking hybrid of a real time strategy game along with some first person shooter elements, and it is in need of greenlight votes. It does of course state it will be able on Linux too.

Crytek Face More Problems, As Homefront Director Resigns

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jul 2014

So, that's more bad news for our hopes of having the new Homefront: The Revolution not only be on Linux, but ever seeing the light of day. The director has now left.

Super 3D Noah's Ark Now Available On Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jul 2014

Super 3D Noah's Ark was originally a NES & DOS game that was revamped for a 20th anniversary edition, and the new version includes a Linux port with an open source engine.

Out There, A Popular Space Strategy Game Coming To Linux!

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jul 2014

It didn't take long for the developer of Out There to confirm it would come to Linux after announcing the Windows & Mac versions, but after a few requests it's now confirmed, woo!

Infinity Runner Released For Linux Plus Our Thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jul 2014

Infinity Runner is a great looking first person action game that involves a lot of running. We give it a try to see how it performs.

X-Plane 10 Global 64bit Now On Steam For Linux

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jul 2014

X-Plane 10 Global 64bit is now on Steam for Linux and promises a rather expensive flight simulator experience.

Among The Sleep Developers Are Now Working On A Linux Fix

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jul 2014

Good news everyone! The Among The Sleep developers are now able to reproduce the game breaking bug that affects Linux gamers preventing them from playing, and they are working on a fix!

A Linux Port Of Terraria Will Soon Be Looked At, Hooray

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2014

Terraria a very popular 2D sandbox game is alive once again thanks to a renewed push from developers, and in a recent update they noted Linux will be looking into after Mac (and Mac looks close).

Valve Has Flipped That Switch & Greenlit More Linux Games This July

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2014

Valve have done their usual thing of turning on the greenlight to go for a bunch more indie games. We have the ones listed as supporting Linux for you.

Don't Starve Together Teaser Release

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2014

Don't Starve Together is the eagerly anticipated multiplayer expansion for Don't Starve, a game that has been screaming out for a multiplayer since day one. There is now a very early teaser.

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