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I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly came back to check 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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A Hate Story

By Liam Dawe, Jan 17, 2012

A new visual novel type game is coming out named A Hate Story. QuoteBack in the 25th century, Earth launched a generation ship into deep space, with the goal of es...

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Neverputt is on Desura

By Liam Dawe, Jan 16, 2012

Neverputt is a hot-seat multiplayer mini-golf game built on the same physics and graphics engine as Neverball. It comes with a range of...

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Retro Blazer

By Liam Dawe, Jan 16, 2012

Retro Blazer is an interesting looking old school FPS currently in Alpha. QuoteIn the vast labyrinth of ARK Island, once elder now Tyrannical Warlord, Lokahndril, has...

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Tomes of Mephistopheles gameplay

By Liam Dawe, Jan 15, 2012

So Alex from Kot-In-Action has finally given us a sort of demo trailer for some gameplay of what will become Tomes of Mephistopheles. It looks interesting and as usual from Kot-In-Action ...

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3079 new version!

By Liam Dawe, Jan 14, 2012

3079 the blocky RPG inspired by Minecraft and Fallout has released a new version! An odd game

Desura adds free adventure games!

By Liam Dawe, Jan 13, 2012

Desura one of our favourite clients to get games for Linux has added a couple of free downloadable adventure games. The games all use ScummVM; QuoteScummVM al...

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Humble Indie...Store?

By Liam Dawe, Jan 11, 2012

So the web has been abuzz with news of Humble Bundle doing a Humble Indie Store. If i may direct you to a few-ish links; http://www.humblebundle.com/store/produ...

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3079 now on Desura!

By Liam Dawe, Jan 9, 2012

The odd Minecraft and Fallout inspired 3079 is now on Desura, a game we briefly covered bef...

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Towns 0.39 released!

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8, 2012

Towns the funny little town building/rpg/dungeon crawler type game has recently been updated.

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Are sales bad for games?

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8, 2012

Some of you may know of the game Cardinal Quest (a fast paced rougelike - it's pretty cool go check it out) by a guy named Ido Yehieli, well he wrote a blog post I have been meaning to bring to ...

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Tomes of Mephistopheles Teaser

By Liam Dawe, Jan 6, 2012

Another game coming out from Kot-In-Action (Other than

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Nemesys games needing testers

By Liam Dawe, Jan 5, 2012

I've posted about Ignite still coming to Linux before much to me being called names by other people as they didn't beleive me...bu...

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Freespace 1&2 heading to Desura!

By Liam Dawe, Jan 4, 2012

On the Desura forum Protektor the head of Linux Gaming at Desura announced this little juicy tidbit;

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Fallout on Linux with Dosbox/Desura

By Liam Dawe, Jan 3, 2012

Fallout is now on Desura for Linux using DosBox! It's the same thing that gog.com does it bundles the game with DosBox (exactly the same on Windows). So you can finally g...

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Helena the 3rd pay what you want

By Liam Dawe, Jan 2, 2012

In celebration of hitting their Kickstarter goal for Ensign 1, Only Human Studios have set their first game Helena the 3rd as pa...

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Happy new year, a review of 2011

By Liam Dawe, Jan 1, 2012

Well folks another year of our lives down and another to look forward too. 2011 has been a pretty exciting year for Linux gamers all in all with multiple different types of bundles coming from

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FLARE v0.15 and v0.15.1

By Liam Dawe, Dec 30, 2011

FLARE the open source RPG engine & game has released a new version and a video to show it off. I say Engine & Game as the author describes it as this; Quote

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Dirk Dashing 2: E.V.I.L Eye v0.7

By Liam Dawe, Dec 29, 2011

Better late than never (Sorry!), MyGameCompany has released the next preview of the upcomming platformer mainly for the younger audience named Dirk Dashing 2! The announcement is below; I'm pleased to announce the...

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3079 blocky action RPG

By Liam Dawe, Dec 29, 2011

Introducing 3079 the Blocky Action RPG, that looks a lot like Minecraft only odder. Trailer;

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OpenXcom next version teaser - open source xcom

By Liam Dawe, Dec 28, 2011

One of my favourite open source projects of all time as X-Com is deeply routed in my gaming past, OpenXcom is an open source engine built from the ground up for you to be able to play old skool turn based strategy X-Com on modern computers....