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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.

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Running With Rifles release 0.8 with boats!

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2013

Running With Rifles unleashes 0.80 with drivable boats, a new map, persistent stats and general fixes!

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DOTA2 looks to be coming to Linux!

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2013

Thanks to Matthew Bailey showing a screenshot of his Linux games list on Steam an interesting item is on that list...DOTA2!

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Dagon engine that poweres the horror game Asylum is open sourced

By Liam Dawe, 16 Feb 2013

The game engine powering Asylum went open source two days ago. It has been designed with adventure games in mind and it’s really easy to use. It's free to use for commercial projects. Developers and players alike are welcomed to take a ...

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Salvation Prophecy entering testing for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Feb 2013

Salvation Prophecy is a space epic. Four warring factions battle over control of the known galaxy and it's on it's way to us on Linux!

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Steam for Linux celebration Sale!

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2013

Today, Linux gaming takes a huge step forward as Valve have now officially released the Steam Client for Linux and so it's available for everyone to try. Valve are also doing a big sale to celebrate, with 50-75% off select games.

CRYAMORE action-rpg hits Linux goal!

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2013

Good news everyone! CRYAMORE has hit it's stretch goal to switch to Unity3D so they can support more platforms which includes Linu...

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Dungeon Prospector a new old-school dungeon crawler/rougelike

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2013

Dungeon Prospector a new old-school dungeon crawler/rougelike is now on Desura's Alpha Fund program!

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Puppy games pushes their games to Steam for Linux!

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2013

Puppy Games, developer of award winning indie games such as Revenge of the Titans, Titan Att...

Towns V10 released the rpg/city builder game is improving!

By Liam Dawe, 13 Feb 2013

Towns brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features.

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More new Legend of Dungeon footage!

By Liam Dawe, 13 Feb 2013

Getting more psyched for Legend of Dungeon, just looks so fun! Not far away from release now!

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Factorio a really interesting indie game

By Liam Dawe, 13 Feb 2013

Factorio is in need of help via indiegogo to build their game. The game is about building a factory on an alien planet!

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Terraria unnoficially on Linux with MonoGame

By Liam Dawe, 12 Feb 2013

Terraria a once widely popular 2D game can be played on Linux natively using a couple neat tricks, sad the developers don't do this for us themselves.

First footage of Wasteland 2 is now out!

By Liam Dawe, 11 Feb 2013

Wasteland 2 now has it's first video footage!

No Heroes a Call of Duty like FPS game

By Liam Dawe, 10 Feb 2013

No Heroes is an in-development First Person Shooter by one man behind Drunken Lizard Games featuring parkour, fun gameplay, realistic physics and more! The game will be released som...

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Half-Life: Blue Shift will be coming to Linux as well

By Liam Dawe, 9 Feb 2013

Looks like a Valve developer has let it slip that Blue Shift will be on Linux! On a bug report about errors with HD models in Half-Life 1 Linux, a user suggested using con...

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Magical Diary looks to be heading to Steam!

By Liam Dawe, 9 Feb 2013

Another day and more Steam news for you, this time Magical Diary looks to be on it's way for Steam Linux!

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Dwarfs!? Added to Steam Linux and may be getting free to play

By Liam Dawe, 8 Feb 2013

Another day another game added to Steam, this time it's Dwarfs!? Which may also be getting a free to play event.

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Steam can be legally packaged in any distro

By Liam Dawe, 8 Feb 2013

Thanks to a recent (7th Feb) update to the Steam Linux client, it is now possible for it to be packaged for other Linux distro's....

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Steam now has a Featured Linux Games Section

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2013

Looks like they are rolling out all area's for Linux on Steam now! Valve are improving the store for Linux users. Seems like the official release isn't far away at all....