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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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Drifter - A space trading game

By Liam Dawe, 4 May 2012

Drifter: A Space Trading Game has a Kickstarter fund setup which notes a possible Linux version. The game itself is the authors...

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Project Zomboid new video!

By Liam Dawe, 2 May 2012

Project Zomboid the indie zombie survival game has released on their blog a new video demoing the upcoming character animation system that will be in th...

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Nekro confirmed for Linux!

By Liam Dawe, 2 May 2012

Nekro by darkForge another Kickstarter has now reached well over it's goal so you can be sure they are going to do the Linux version!

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Legends of Eisenwald may come to Linux!

By Liam Dawe, 29 Apr 2012

Legends of Eisenwald a strategy/rpg hybrid currently on..yup you guess it Kickstarter plans...

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Steam on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 25 Apr 2012

So the rumour mill is at it again this time things are looking a bit more solid, but as always I am sceptical. Michael Larabel of

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Snorms episode 2 released

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2012

An interesting game available on Desura's Alpha Funding is Snorms which in the past few days has had a major content upda...

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Arx Libertatis 1.0 released!

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2012

Arx Libertatis is a cross-platform, open source port of Arx Fatalis, a 2002 first-person role-playing game dev...

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LightFish on Desura!

By Liam Dawe, 18 Apr 2012

A new game just popped up on Desura; LightFish is a classic concept evolved into something new and exciti...

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Reminder - We have a Minecraft server

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2012

Just a little reminder to you all - we have a Minecraft server with some regular players and some really great stuff being made. One issue with the current world is new users spawned into open water...this has now been fixed thanks to bukkit (the modable ...

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Liberated Pixel Cup

By Liam Dawe, 15 Apr 2012

Liberated Pixel Cup is a two-part competition: make a bunch of awesome free culture licensed artwork, and then program a bunch of ...

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Cheese talks - Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe, 14 Apr 2012

Cheese our resident forum member talked to himself (he does that a lot..just kidding) and a couple other big names like Notch (Minecraft creator) about the Humble Bundles. Cheese is the creator of the amazing

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Humble Bundle Home

By Liam Dawe, 27 Mar 2012

Looks like the folks over at Humble Bundle have finally created a way for everyone to access their games in one place (something that was needed for them to come out with the

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Project Zomboid updates and a howto

By Liam Dawe, 25 Mar 2012

My favourite zombie survival game of the moment Project Zomboid has had multiple new releases recently. They have also now included a multi platform launcher (Java) which allows Linux and Mac g...

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Gameoliths newest titles!

By Liam Dawe, 23 Mar 2012

Not to be completely trumped by Desura, our next favourite website to buy games from Gameolith has recently added a few new titles!

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Ensign 1 new footage!

By Liam Dawe, 22 Mar 2012

[ATTACH=full]333[/ATTACH] Only Human Studios second game Ensign 1 the currently in-dev space shooter has seen a new video released showing off their recent work on the game, this ti...

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0 A.D. Alpha 9!

By Liam Dawe, 17 Mar 2012

0 A.D. the open source and beautiful Real Time Strategy coming from Wildfire Games has reached it's 9th Alpha!

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Hostile Takeover updates

By Liam Dawe, 10 Mar 2012

Another on my "you should really be watching this" list is Hostile Takeover by Laserbrain Studios has had some more screen shots and videos released since I last posted about it, s...

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Deep Black: Reloaded coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2012

As our friends Ubuntu Vibes have pointed out and something which I also found out but didn't get time to post, Deep Black: Reloaded have confirmed they are porting to Linux and Mac!

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Defenders Quest

By Liam Dawe, 8 Mar 2012

A game I only found out about recently called Defenders Quest which is available for Linux. The game itself is a tower defense game by nature which incorporates a story and RPG elements, i had a go at the demo and i must say for any fans of tower defense ...