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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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Corsix-th beta 8 released!

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 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, 22 Sep 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, 21 Sep 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, 19 Sep 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...

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New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 7 Geronium

By Liam Dawe, 17 Sep 2011

The awesome Wildfire Games have unleashed another Alpha of 0 A.D. QuoteWildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly annou...

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Oil Rush Build 0.80 released!

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2011

Oil Rush the awesome looking and cross platform RTS/Tower Defence game from Unigine has released a new test version for all pre-purchasers :) Quote== Changes from...

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Dungeons of Dredmor soooooon!

By Liam Dawe, 15 Sep 2011

Further to my previous post about Dungeons of Dredmor,

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Minecraft 1.8 "Adventure Update" is out!

By Liam Dawe, 14 Sep 2011

Well Minecraft fans the day is upon us (one I have been waiting for!). Minecraft 1.8 is out! New stuff includes: ...

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Cardinal Quest released!

By Liam Dawe, 9 Sep 2011

Tametick has release Cardinal Quest an arcade style dungeon crawler for Linux on Gameolith! Priced at a reasonable $4.45 this is a...

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If You Build It, They Will Come.....(Ignite for Linux)

By Liam Dawe, 5 Sep 2011

Nemesys games have stated they will be porting their games to Linux! Here's a little video of what is to come:

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Marball Odyssey is out for GNU/Linux!

By Liam Dawe, 4 Sep 2011

Thanks to Ozzy who emailed this one in: QuoteMarBall Odyssey is an extremely well polished and addictive game which follows the theme of the classic game marble madness, with a few twists. The principle of MarBa...

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Dungeons of Dredmor still coming to Linux!

By Liam Dawe, 3 Sep 2011

One of my current favourite indie games (and the only Rogue-like I actually like!), Dungeons of Dredmor is still officially coming to Linux! To quote: Quo...

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Project Zomboid updates!

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2011

[ATTACH=full]224[/ATTACH] To all zombie lovers out there, the new release of Project Zomboid from The Indie Stone is upon us! It requires a tiny bit of hacking to get ...

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Interview with Jonathan Prior of Gameolith.com

By Liam Dawe, 21 Aug 2011

Todays question time was spent with Jonathan Prior of Gameolith a newish Linux game download store of which I am a customer of so I thought it would be good to get some feedback!

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Anaconda Runtime for Clickteams Multimedia Fusion (MMF2)

By Liam Dawe, 20 Aug 2011

You will probably have no idea what the title is going on about so to explain a little. One of my biggest gripes with Linux is no WYSIWYG game maker (like The Games Factory/Multimedia Fusion, Scirra Construct, Game Maker etc) that makes it ea...

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Hacker Evolution Duality - Free playable beta for linux, now available

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2011

Exosyphen studios would like to announce the availability of a free playable beta for linux of the upcoming game, Hacker Evolution Duality. The game is due to be release 15th August! QuoteHacker Evolution...

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Cardinal Quest

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2011

Introducing Cardinal Quest an interesting little arcade-style dungeon-crawler. QuoteCardinal Quest is an arcade-style dungeon-crawler inspired by 1980s classics ...

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Caster multiplayer on the way?

By Liam Dawe, 11 Aug 2011

So for all you Caster fans it looks like it will be getting multiplayer support according to a sneaky blog post: Quote

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Atom Zombie Smasher now available on the Ubuntu Software Center

By Liam Dawe, 10 Aug 2011

Following Atom Zombie Smasher's inclusion in the Humble Indie Bundle #3 and recent selection for thePAX 10 indie showcase, Atom Zombie Smasher is now available in the Ubuntu Software Center. Atom Zombie Smasher has been available for Linux, Ma...

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Minecraft server problems

By Liam Dawe, 9 Aug 2011

UPDATE: Looks like the new map may have to stay, the CPU use has gone right down since putting on the new map, that's the problem with playing a game that's in BETA! Original: It has come to my attention that ...