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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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Award-winning Puzzle Platformer

By Liam Dawe, Aug 7, 2010

The award-winning puzzle platformer, And Yet It Moves, was released for the Linux platform today. Indie studio Broken Rules brings the award-winning downloadable PC and Mac game that will have players physically rotating environments to overcome various o...

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Spring RTS releases another Release Candidate!

By Liam Dawe, Aug 5, 2010

The ever popular Spring RTS Engine has released a second Release Candidate to become the next stable release. They really do need to get updated packages to Ubuntu, seems they have left it behind a couple of versions!

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New Steel Storm video!

By Liam Dawe, Aug 5, 2010

The developers of the in development arcade style shooter Steel Storm QuoteWhile you were guessing what's going on, we have been polishing demo, tuning the code and been messing with the sounds. ...

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Badass vs Robot

By Liam Dawe, Jul 27, 2010

A short a very sweet news article was submitted to let you all know about "Badass vs Robot" To quote: QuoteExclusive Linux release! ...

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Spring RTS 0.82 test build released!

By Liam Dawe, Jul 20, 2010

The Spring RTS Engine project has release a test version of what could become 0.82 the next true version. They have asked for everyone to come forward and test! QuoteOn Linux this code can be build by...

Wine 1.2 Stable Released!

By Liam Dawe, Jul 16, 2010

QuoteThe Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 1.2 is now available. This release represents two years of development effort and over 23,000 changes. The main highlights are the support for 64-...

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0 A.D. Releases 3rd pre-alpha

By Liam Dawe, Jul 11, 2010

Wildfire Games has announced the 3rd pre-alpha version of their Age Of Empires-like RTS game. QuoteWildfire Games proudly announces the release of a third pre-alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source game of anc...

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Osmos-Linux Sales Stats

By Liam Dawe, Jun 24, 2010

The developers behind the brilliant little game Osmos which is currently available for Linux, Mac and Windows have written up a piece giving us a bit of info on how it turned out for them to port the game to Linux.

Lugaru HD and Penumbra Overture open source!

By Liam Dawe, May 16, 2010

Thanks to the success of the Humble Indie Bundle (which took in over a million dollars USD) the first two games have been open sourced with Lugaru HD and Penumbra Overture.

Steam confirmed for Linux apparently

By Liam Dawe, May 12, 2010

Well here you have it folks apparently Valve has announced that Steam will be coming to Linux after all.

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Humble Indie Bundle - New game added!!

By Liam Dawe, May 9, 2010

$610,901 later and 72,791 contributors (at time of writing) the Humble Indie Bundle is a MASSIVE success.

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Humble Indie Bundle game bundle announced

By Liam Dawe, May 4, 2010

The first Humble Indie Bundle is up, a Pay What You Want game bundle of 5 games, could we see more of this in the future? I think so! This is from Wolfire Games, the developer behind Lugaru.

Steam's Linux client is coming to Linux!

By Liam Dawe, May 1, 2010

Well for a while now I have been following forum threads on different websites and news posts on Phoronix and it seems that a Linux client for Steam (Valve's game platform) will be coming to Linux!

Osmos indie game released for Linux!

By Liam Dawe, Apr 28, 2010

After a very short and fun testing period the indie hit Osmos now officially supports Linux. This marks yet another excellent indie game for our growing platform!

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Osmos indie game Linux port started!

By Liam Dawe, Apr 14, 2010

Well for those of you living under a rock Osmos is a small indie game currently for Mac and Windows that one of their developers has finally started the Linux port for and even promised a...