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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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Open Source 2D Game/Application creator seeking developers!

By Liam Dawe, 11 Sep 2010

Scirra Construct is an open source game/application development tool. Rather than having to learn a programming language it uses a simple point and click interface - which works pretty well and some impressive games have already been made. ...

Misc

Amnesia: The Dark Descent Released!

By Liam Dawe, 8 Sep 2010

A couple of hours ago Amnesia: The Dark Descent was officially released! The latest horror game from Frictional.

Horror
Misc

Widelands just keeps on improving!

By Liam Dawe, 5 Sep 2010

QuoteWidelands is an open source (GPLed) real-time strategy game. It is built upon the SDL and other open source libraries and is (and will always be) under heavy development. If you knew Settlers I & II, then you already have...

Misc

Oil Rush announcement from Unigine

By Liam Dawe, 4 Sep 2010

The creators behind the Unigine Engine have announced their own cross-platform RTS game! It's great to see a Linux friendly developer studio really push their game engine into the spotlight with what looks like could be a massively pop...

Misc

New Spring RTS stable version!

By Liam Dawe, 2 Sep 2010

The Spring RTS Engine recently had two more releases to fix many left outstanding bugs from the previous 0.82.3/0.82.2 releases. By the looks of it the new versions bring the overall stability to a major high considering the amount of big c...

Misc

Steam not coming to Linux - Valve

By Liam Dawe, 24 Aug 2010

Valve claim that Steam is not coming to Linux despite earlier reports suggesting that it will. The rumours originated from Pho...

Steam
Valve

Revenge of the Titans updates!

By Liam Dawe, 22 Aug 2010

Well puppygames have released a few new updates to Revenge of The Titans. QuoteWell, we've finally released the Saturn levels for Revenge of the Titans under the guise of version 1.5! This has been quite a comp...

Misc

0 A.D. Alpha 1 Released!

By Liam Dawe, 17 Aug 2010

The history inspired open source RTS 0 A.D. has finally released the first true Alpha version for everyone to play with! QuoteWildfire Games proudly announces the release of the first alpha version of 0 A.D., a free...

Misc

Enemy Territory open sourced!

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2010

Enemy Territory from ID has been open sourced as reported by LinuxGames. I was hoping they would do it eventually, was a game a lost a lot of time to on the original Xbox. The sources have the full Enemy Territory single play...

Misc

Warp Speed second alpha release and a new video!

By Liam Dawe, 11 Aug 2010

QuoteWarp Speed gets its second pre-alpha release! We also have a video with the ingame footage and badass killer voice of mine for you! Apologies for such a huge gap in the updates! We had to shut up for a while an...

Misc

Award-winning Puzzle Platformer

By Liam Dawe, 7 Aug 2010

The award-winning puzzle platformer, And Yet It Moves, was released for the Linux platform today. Indie studio Broken Rules brings the award-winning downloadable PC and Mac game that will have players physically rotating environments to overcome various o...

Misc

Spring RTS releases another Release Candidate!

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2010

The ever popular Spring RTS Engine has released a second Release Candidate to become the next stable release. They really do need to get updated packages to Ubuntu, seems they have left it behind a couple of versions!

Misc

New Steel Storm video!

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2010

The developers of the in development arcade style shooter Steel Storm QuoteWhile you were guessing what's going on, we have been polishing demo, tuning the code and been messing with the sounds. ...

Misc

Badass vs Robot

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2010

A short a very sweet news article was submitted to let you all know about "Badass vs Robot" To quote: QuoteExclusive Linux release! ...

Misc

Spring RTS 0.82 test build released!

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jul 2010

The Spring RTS Engine project has release a test version of what could become 0.82 the next true version. They have asked for everyone to come forward and test! QuoteOn Linux this code can be build by...

Wine 1.2 Stable Released!

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jul 2010

QuoteThe Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 1.2 is now available. This release represents two years of development effort and over 23,000 changes. The main highlights are the support for 64-...

Misc

0 A.D. Releases 3rd pre-alpha

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jul 2010

Wildfire Games has announced the 3rd pre-alpha version of their Age Of Empires-like RTS game. QuoteWildfire Games proudly announces the release of a third pre-alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source game of anc...