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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.

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Helena the 3rd now available to buy from the Ubuntu Software Centre

By Liam Dawe, Oct 5, 2011

Helena the 3rd one of my much publicised and favourite indie games is now available on the Ubuntu Software Centre for purchase! Hopefully sometime soon it will be available through Desura and Game...

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Cardinal Quest free for 24 hours!

By Liam Dawe, Oct 5, 2011

Update: It's now over and over 1000 copies where handed out! Grab it while it is hot folks, the arcade style dungeon crawler is free for th...

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Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!

By Liam Dawe, Oct 3, 2011

After a little wait (Alex went on holiday!) Alexander "motorsep" joined me for question time this week at Gaming On Linux. He is responsible for the Steel Storm series of games!

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Announcing Ensign 1!

By Liam Dawe, Oct 2, 2011

QuoteEnsign 1 is a single/multiplayer space combat game featuring dog fights from within the cockpit, as well as first person shooting action after you've docked on large space stations. [ATTACH]243[...

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Minecraft 1.9 pre-release 2 is out!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 29, 2011

Well folks it's that time...again and my addiction is getting ever stronger... The folks over at Mojang have release the second pre-release of Minecraft 1.9 You can

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Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 28, 2011

The Humble Indie Bundle has returned in a somewhat smaller form than usual. This bundle only has one game in it "Frozen Synapse" but if you pay higher than the average you get the games ...

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Speed Dreams 2.0 Beta 1 is up!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 27, 2011

Speed Dreams the open source continuation of torcs is nearing the release of the big 2.0 from the twitter announcement: Quote#Speed

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Corsix-th beta 8 released!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 25, 2011

Another one of my favourite projects has had a new release, Corsix-th the open source engine for Bullfrogs old Theme Hospital has hit a new milestone! You can find downloads di...

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Marball Odyssey $1+ (not quite pay what you want)

By Liam Dawe, Sep 22, 2011

Marball Odyssey is available from Indievania (another awesome website that is supporting Linux games!) for $1 (plus wh...

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Gameolith gives more info for game developers.

By Liam Dawe, Sep 21, 2011

The also increasingly awesome (although a little slow at getting your website up to scratch - no offense - to point something odd out, they have forums for only 2 games they sell) Gameolith have rele...

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Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 19, 2011

Desura the ever awesome game distribution service is in around 24 hours going to send out the first 50 beta invites. As it turns out, i was in this luck as when downloading i was able to log...

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New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 7 Geronium

By Liam Dawe, Sep 17, 2011

The awesome Wildfire Games have unleashed another Alpha of 0 A.D. QuoteWildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly annou...

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Oil Rush Build 0.80 released!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 16, 2011

Oil Rush the awesome looking and cross platform RTS/Tower Defence game from Unigine has released a new test version for all pre-purchasers :) Quote== Changes from...

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Dungeons of Dredmor soooooon!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 15, 2011

Further to my previous post about Dungeons of Dredmor,

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Minecraft 1.8 "Adventure Update" is out!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 14, 2011

Well Minecraft fans the day is upon us (one I have been waiting for!). Minecraft 1.8 is out! New stuff includes: ...

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Cardinal Quest released!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 9, 2011

Tametick has release Cardinal Quest an arcade style dungeon crawler for Linux on Gameolith! Priced at a reasonable $4.45 this is a...

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If You Build It, They Will Come.....(Ignite for Linux)

By Liam Dawe, Sep 5, 2011

Nemesys games have stated they will be porting their games to Linux! Here's a little video of what is to come:

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Marball Odyssey is out for GNU/Linux!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 4, 2011

Thanks to Ozzy who emailed this one in: QuoteMarBall Odyssey is an extremely well polished and addictive game which follows the theme of the classic game marble madness, with a few twists. The principle of MarBa...

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Dungeons of Dredmor still coming to Linux!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 3, 2011

One of my current favourite indie games (and the only Rogue-like I actually like!), Dungeons of Dredmor is still officially coming to Linux! To quote: Quo...

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Project Zomboid updates!

By Liam Dawe, Aug 28, 2011

[ATTACH=full]224[/ATTACH] To all zombie lovers out there, the new release of Project Zomboid from The Indie Stone is upon us! It requires a tiny bit of hacking to get ...