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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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New Frictional Games Teaser Site

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2013

So it seems the creators behind Amnesia and Penumbra series are up to something with a new teaser website!

Upcoming

Eschalon Book 3 RPG Beta To Come November

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2013

Good news RPG fans, your waiting for Eschalon Book 3 is nearly over with their latest news post, currently in alpha they expect the beta to start in November.

Valve Announces New Controller For SteamOS, Steam Controller

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2013

Valve has unveiled the final announcement and it's a controller and it's a very peculiar looking device.

Wwise Audio Middleware To Support Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2013

WaveWorks Interactive Sound Engine (Wwise) is an audio library game developers can use license to use in their games.

AMD Announces Mantle Graphics API

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2013

So AMD has announced a low level graphics API that will be cross platform (no actual platforms stated yet though). This will make things very interesting that's for sure.

CLARK, An Isometric Puzzle-Arcade Game On Greenlight

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2013

CLARK is an isometric, grid-based puzzle game with fast paced arcade elements. It features comic style visuals in various different graphical themes.

Half-Life: Source Now Out Of Beta For Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2013

While Steam's store doesn't actually list a Linux icon for it, Valve announced on the official community hub for Half-Life: Source that it's now available for Linux.

Planetary Annihilation Enters Beta With Lower Price & More Features

By Liam Dawe, 26 Sep 2013

This is very exciting especially for any RTS fan as Planetary Annihilation has entered beta which unlocks more features and lowers the price.

Heavy Bullets FPS Dungeon Crawler With Video

By Liam Dawe, 26 Sep 2013

Heavy Bullets is an FPS dungeon crawler from Terri Vellmann in the early stages, but already very promising, with its bright colours and fun enemies it's already fun.

Valve Announces Steam Machines, You Can Win One Too

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2013

Valve have announced SteamOS, their own operating system based on Debian Linux that will be placed on a variety of gaming machines due for release in 2014.

Crypt Run Action RPG Available To Pre-Order

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2013

Death is just the beginning in Crypt Run, an action RPG where a new world awaits each time you play! Available to preorder now on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Achron Time Travelling RTS Game Updated

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2013

A new major bugfix update to Achron has been released to fix a lot of bugs and a few minor new features. Glad to see this games continues to be supported.

Strategy

Cactus IDE For Haxe Game Development

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2013

Open source cross platform IDE for the Haxe programming language supporting Windows/Linux/Mac as Haxe lacks really good cross platform IDE.

Crowdfunding

SteamOS Thoughts, SteamOS Official Group & Next Announcement

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2013

So with the dust settling in about Valve's new SteamOS it's time to take a quick think about it all.

Octopus City Blues A Surreal Adventure

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2013

The authentic Octopus City simulation for Windows, OS X and Linux. A surreal adventure game about everything and nothing.

The IndieGameStand Game Store

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2013

So IndieGameStand the website which used to be all about a new pay-what-you-want and charity supporting game sale every 96 hours has officially launched a full game store.