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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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X-Plane 10

By Liam Dawe, 27 Nov 2011

While not my cup-o-tea X-Plane 10 the realistic flight sim has been release for Linux, Mac and Windows. It sure does look pretty, I mean seriously pretty but to me there is never a point ...

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Copy of BEEP to give away from Gameolith!

By Liam Dawe, 26 Nov 2011

I have a copy of BEEP to give away courtesy of a competition I won some time ago thanks to Gameolith. So the question t...

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Game Sales and lower game prices - get it while it's hot!

By Liam Dawe, 24 Nov 2011

Currently there are a few game sales going on I would like to point out to you lovely readers to enjoy. Desura Deals Dungeons of Dredmor - 50% o...

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Ensign 1 kickstarter update!

By Liam Dawe, 23 Nov 2011

The fine folks over at Only Human Studios are still running their kickstarter campaign to get enough funds to give their new game

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Doom 3 source code released

By Liam Dawe, 23 Nov 2011

Well folks that moment has come, ID has released the next set of source code to the GPL, this time for Doom 3! Hopefully we can see some popular open source games have some interesting engine upgrades as a result of this. It would be interest...

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Oil Rush Release Date Announced

By Liam Dawe, 22 Nov 2011

Oil Rush the tower defense/RTS hybrid by Unigine now has an official release date: January 25 2012

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Gameolith the Linux Game Store funding update!

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2011

So you may remember my news post before about Gameolith looking for "Donations" well it's not technically donating as someone pointed out, they want your money to support them on their...

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Steel Storm 2 announced - A new FPS game coming!

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2011

For those of you who like the Steel Storm series of games you may or may not have noticed that the official website has changed to give a teaser of

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Humble Voxatron Debut is over + Info on the next Bundle!

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2011

Well the latest from Humble is now over, The Humble Voxatron Debut finished reaching a massive $902,666.83. While stopping shy of a million which a lot of us are now ...

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Minecon and Minecraft 1.0 official out today!

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2011

Well it has been a long time coming since the last update but the huge smash hit indie game Minecraft will today have it's biggest update yet. Released along side Minecon the Minecraft Convention. The game still has the 25% ...

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Desura client is out for all!

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2011

Today, the team at the game store Desura have officially released the Linux client so anyone can grab it. Starting off strong too, with a list of 65 varied games available which is pretty h...

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Announcing Hostile Takeover

By Liam Dawe, 16 Nov 2011

A new game currently in development recently appeared on my radar named Hostile Takeover. The game itself plays a bit like Syndicate while taking certain ideas from the older X-Com g...

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Achron out on Desura, lower price and free copy!

By Liam Dawe, 15 Nov 2011

Achron is a title I have very briefly covered before, mainly because It was a little radical and I didn't really get it. It is a time travelling RTS (real time strategy - do I...

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Featured on OSNews.com!

By Liam Dawe, 15 Nov 2011

Just a quick hello to anyone visiting from osnews.com who put up an article from JoshB after I had an email chat with him about the current state of gaming on Linux. Myself and our little website here wa...

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Nvidia Optimus with Ironhide

By Liam Dawe, 13 Nov 2011

So for those of you like me who have a laptop with Nvidia Optimus that want to game on Linux usually you would be quite stuck with Nvidia not supporting Optimus on Linux at all. So you would either be lucky and have a BIOS option to turn off ...

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Indie Royale Bundle update!

By Liam Dawe, 12 Nov 2011

While I reported earlier on the Indie Royale Bundle having a measely 1 Linux Native game in it,...

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0 A.D. Coding Sprint

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2011

So some of you may remember that 0 A.D. is currently running another pledgie campaign to raise money for a coder to do another...

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ETXreaL 0.3.0

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2011

ETXreaL has just recently released a new major test version for you FPS lovers to play with...

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Desura client may be open sourced

By Liam Dawe, 10 Nov 2011

lodle writing on the Desura forum has asked for opinions and help in making the Desura client partially

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Indie Royale Bundle

By Liam Dawe, 10 Nov 2011

While not great news for Linux gamers a new Indie Royale Bundle is out and this time it has 1 game that has a native Linux port and even offers up a Desura key!