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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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Join us on Facebook!

By Liam Dawe, Feb 23, 2011

We now have a facebook group for those of you that are interesting in that sort of thing! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gaming-On-Linux/134837273249561

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Inside a Star-filled Sky

By Liam Dawe, Feb 19, 2011

Announcing Inside a Star-filled Sky an infinite, recursive, tactical shooter for one player by Jason Rohrer

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0 A.D Updates

By Liam Dawe, Feb 10, 2011

Everyone's favourite up-and-coming open source real time strategy game 0 A.D. hasn't received much spotlight lately so let's change that! Updates

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A new editor is needed!

By Liam Dawe, Feb 9, 2011

Okay boys and girls the time has come that i would like another editor to join the team of Me and Rustybolts to publish news and random gaming articles on the website. So that i can focus a bit more on website improvements rather than scannin...

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Scirra Construct 2 Announced

By Liam Dawe, Feb 6, 2011

Happy lazy sunday everyone, a bit of fun news for everyone today. A project called Construct (click the name for the link) has recently released a pre-alpha of version 2 of their o...

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OpenXcom 0.2

By Liam Dawe, Feb 1, 2011

Okay so for those folk who remember i did an interview with the OpenXcom main developer recently. So go read that if you have no idea what Xcom i...

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Lips of Suna Miney-RPG Releases v 0.2

By Liam Dawe, Jan 28, 2011

Lips of Suna has been in development for quite a while; it's an highly extensible RPG with destructible environments and an anime art-direction. Version 0.2 has brought in a lot of changes: Customizable character models, smaller terrain blocks that a...

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Arx Fatalis Open Sourced

By Liam Dawe, Jan 16, 2011

Arx Fatalis the Ultima Underworld-inspired FPRP (First Person Role Playing) game has been

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Interview: OpenXcom developer Daniel

By Liam Dawe, Jan 12, 2011

Time for our second ever interview, this time with Daniel the main force behind the OpenXcom project! For more info on what XCom is see ...

Stealth Target - To be discontinued

By Liam Dawe, Jan 7, 2011

I got an email earlier from Phil the author of Galcon and Stealth Target to notify me that Stealth Target is being discontinued, for those who didn't get the email here is a quote:

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0 A.D. Looking for donators!

By Liam Dawe, Dec 30, 2010

As many of you would have noticed the 0 A.D. team is looking for donations for one of the developers to be paid for a full months worth of work on the game. I will be donating ei...

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M.A.R.S Christmas Release

By Liam Dawe, Dec 30, 2010

A little late here but the M.A.R.S team released a new version with some really nice new features! QuoteAs a kind of Christmas present we decided to prov...

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Happy Holidays

By Liam Dawe, Dec 26, 2010

For anyone who celebrates anything this time of year or to those who just have some time off, Happy Holidays from us here at GamingOnLinux. Here's to another awesome year on the Linux desktop! Bring on 2011!...

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Corsix-TH (Open-Source theme hospital!)

By Liam Dawe, Dec 20, 2010

For those who remember Theme Hospital i would like to let you know about Corsix-TH, which is an open source remake of the engine to run it! Quote

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True Combat:Close Quarters Battle

By Liam Dawe, Dec 15, 2010

Many of you are no doubt fans of the freeware game True Combat Elite who recently celebrated it's 10th birthday! While I have said for a long time we don'...

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Interview with a M.A.R.S. developer!

By Liam Dawe, Dec 10, 2010

So GOL has it's first interview, first up is a developer of the frantic arcade shooter M.A.R.S So first question: [Q] Tell our readers a bit about yours...

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M.A.R.S 0.6.1 Released!

By Liam Dawe, Dec 6, 2010

A new release of the fantastically frantic arcade shooter is upon us! QuoteWe proudly present a new version of M.A.R.S., containing some exciting new features! A New Weapon: Fist Of Ali This is a short ra...

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Fancy winning a game of your choice?!

By Liam Dawe, Dec 5, 2010

Okay it's time for the December competition, even though the last one was a flop i have decided to give competitions another go! I asked on reddit earlier what games people are interested in and it gave me an idea - since no one can ever...

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SuperTuxKart 0.7 release candidate 1

By Liam Dawe, Dec 5, 2010

QuoteAfter a burst of changes and fixes in the last few days we have finally released a first release candidate for 0.7: http://sourcef...

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Osmos hopefully coming to Ubuntu Software Centre

By Liam Dawe, Dec 5, 2010

I like probably a fair few others tend to lurk around the Hemisphere Games website/Forum hoping they will release another awesome Indie game. I have found out via their forum