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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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Helena the Third - Indievania!

By Liam Dawe, Oct 18, 2011

Well lad...

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Tomes of Mephistopheles

By Liam Dawe, Oct 16, 2011

Alex from Kot-in-Action sent me a video on testing their engine's ability to render large outdoor areas for their new game.

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Alien Arena 7.52 released!

By Liam Dawe, Oct 14, 2011

The ever more impressive with each incremental release Alien Arena has hit us with a new version. QuoteAlien Arena 2011 version 7.52 has been released today for windows and linux users! The latest version(7.52) of the...

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Dungeons Of Dredmor now available!

By Liam Dawe, Oct 14, 2011

You lucky lucky people, Gaslamp Games have released their baby Dungeons of Dredmor for Linux!

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Steel Storm is on sale on Desura

By Liam Dawe, Oct 11, 2011

Steel Storm the awesomely frantic top down arcade shooter (that i really need to play more of!) is now on sale, so if you haven't yet picked it up...what the hell are you doing reading this?

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Blocks that Matter available on Gameolith!

By Liam Dawe, Oct 11, 2011

A neat little indie game called Blocks that Matter can now be found dirt cheap on Gameolith. For their announcement see here ->

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Minecraft 1.9 - Here be dragons

By Liam Dawe, Oct 9, 2011

So for all you Minecraft fans the long awaiting 1.9 is nearly upon us and lots of teasers are coming in like this lovely fella:

Breaking news: Keith Poole leaves Desura!

By Liam Dawe, Oct 7, 2011

Today I woke up to some sad news Desura Linux developer Keith Poole leaves company due to conflict of personality and differences of opinion with lead developer Mark Chandler. I have contacted Desura for an official response but no word yet.

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Minecraft beta 1.9 pre release 3!

By Liam Dawe, Oct 6, 2011

Notch and Jeb have released the next pre release (gah!) of Minecraft 1.9! New in this pre release: Simplified potion system Added some new items and enchantment table (wip) Animal babies More info coming up!...

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Helena the 3rd now available to buy from the Ubuntu Software Centre

By Liam Dawe, Oct 5, 2011

Helena the 3rd one of my much publicised and favourite indie games is now available on the Ubuntu Software Centre for purchase! Hopefully sometime soon it will be available through Desura and Game...

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Cardinal Quest free for 24 hours!

By Liam Dawe, Oct 5, 2011

Update: It's now over and over 1000 copies where handed out! Grab it while it is hot folks, the arcade style dungeon crawler is free for th...

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Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!

By Liam Dawe, Oct 3, 2011

After a little wait (Alex went on holiday!) Alexander "motorsep" joined me for question time this week at Gaming On Linux. He is responsible for the Steel Storm series of games!

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Announcing Ensign 1!

By Liam Dawe, Oct 2, 2011

QuoteEnsign 1 is a single/multiplayer space combat game featuring dog fights from within the cockpit, as well as first person shooting action after you've docked on large space stations. [ATTACH]243[...

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Minecraft 1.9 pre-release 2 is out!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 29, 2011

Well folks it's that time...again and my addiction is getting ever stronger... The folks over at Mojang have release the second pre-release of Minecraft 1.9 You can

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Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 28, 2011

The Humble Indie Bundle has returned in a somewhat smaller form than usual. This bundle only has one game in it "Frozen Synapse" but if you pay higher than the average you get the games ...

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Speed Dreams 2.0 Beta 1 is up!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 27, 2011

Speed Dreams the open source continuation of torcs is nearing the release of the big 2.0 from the twitter announcement: Quote#Speed

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Corsix-th beta 8 released!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 25, 2011

Another one of my favourite projects has had a new release, Corsix-th the open source engine for Bullfrogs old Theme Hospital has hit a new milestone! You can find downloads di...

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Marball Odyssey $1+ (not quite pay what you want)

By Liam Dawe, Sep 22, 2011

Marball Odyssey is available from Indievania (another awesome website that is supporting Linux games!) for $1 (plus wh...

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Gameolith gives more info for game developers.

By Liam Dawe, Sep 21, 2011

The also increasingly awesome (although a little slow at getting your website up to scratch - no offense - to point something odd out, they have forums for only 2 games they sell) Gameolith have rele...

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Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!

By Liam Dawe, Sep 19, 2011

Desura the ever awesome game distribution service is in around 24 hours going to send out the first 50 beta invites. As it turns out, i was in this luck as when downloading i was able to log...