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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. Find me on Mastodon.

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M.A.R.S Christmas Release

By Liam Dawe, Dec 30, 2010

A little late here but the M.A.R.S team released a new version with some really nice new features! QuoteAs a kind of Christmas present we decided to prov...

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Happy Holidays

By Liam Dawe, Dec 26, 2010

For anyone who celebrates anything this time of year or to those who just have some time off, Happy Holidays from us here at GamingOnLinux. Here's to another awesome year on the Linux desktop! Bring on 2011!...

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Corsix-TH (Open-Source theme hospital!)

By Liam Dawe, Dec 20, 2010

For those who remember Theme Hospital i would like to let you know about Corsix-TH, which is an open source remake of the engine to run it! Quote

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True Combat:Close Quarters Battle

By Liam Dawe, Dec 15, 2010

Many of you are no doubt fans of the freeware game True Combat Elite who recently celebrated it's 10th birthday! While I have said for a long time we don'...

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Interview with a M.A.R.S. developer!

By Liam Dawe, Dec 10, 2010

So GOL has it's first interview, first up is a developer of the frantic arcade shooter M.A.R.S So first question: [Q] Tell our readers a bit about yours...

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M.A.R.S 0.6.1 Released!

By Liam Dawe, Dec 6, 2010

A new release of the fantastically frantic arcade shooter is upon us! QuoteWe proudly present a new version of M.A.R.S., containing some exciting new features! A New Weapon: Fist Of Ali This is a short ra...

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Fancy winning a game of your choice?!

By Liam Dawe, Dec 5, 2010

Okay it's time for the December competition, even though the last one was a flop i have decided to give competitions another go! I asked on reddit earlier what games people are interested in and it gave me an idea - since no one can ever...

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SuperTuxKart 0.7 release candidate 1

By Liam Dawe, Dec 5, 2010

QuoteAfter a burst of changes and fixes in the last few days we have finally released a first release candidate for 0.7: http://sourcef...

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Osmos hopefully coming to Ubuntu Software Centre

By Liam Dawe, Dec 5, 2010

I like probably a fair few others tend to lurk around the Hemisphere Games website/Forum hoping they will release another awesome Indie game. I have found out via their forum

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M.A.R.S

By Liam Dawe, Dec 4, 2010

M.A.R.S an arcade space shooter has recently seen some new activity with a new release (0.6c "Edward"). QuoteThis is a first attempt to create a game in OpenGL with SFML. It is a game for two players, flyin...

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Sorry for things breaking

By Liam Dawe, Dec 4, 2010

Today you may have noticed at times certain parts of the website being down/giving off random errors. I am currently still integrating the new forum platform, but it's going well and everything will be back to normal momentarily!...

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New Forum Up!

By Liam Dawe, Dec 4, 2010

Well we now have a new forum powered by Xenforo instead of phpbb which allows me to customize the community a lot more to suit our needs...not to mention the software being far more up-to-date with what the web can do nowadays. New url is

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Gaming on GNU/Linux: Ryzom MMORPG Goes Native!

By Liam Dawe, Nov 30, 2010

Gaming on GNU/Linux: Ryzom MMORPG Goes Native! PARIS, FRANCE, November 30th, 2010 -- Winch Gate Properties Ltd has announced the release of the official native GNU/Linux client for the massively-multiplayer online science-fantasy role playi...

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Linux Gaming Publishing - Still Down

By Liam Dawe, Nov 25, 2010

Well as Phoronix picked up Linux Game Publishing has been down for a long time now. After over a month and a half they have only just managed to get the key server operational for copy protected games (Their own website is still down). I re...

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Android Gaming Forum Opened

By Liam Dawe, Nov 21, 2010

Okay everyone since Android is stupidly popular (i have the Dell Streak!) and it is built upon Linux i thought i might as well add it to the forum! http://...

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Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries - Now with .deb installers!

By Liam Dawe, Nov 12, 2010

For those who don't know what 7K:AA is: [item]88[/item] The latest release was made on: October 24th which added support for native 64bit! Now one of the team has created 32bit and 64bit .deb installers (so you no...

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Thinking of switching over to xenForo forum software.

By Liam Dawe, Nov 3, 2010

Thinking of switching over to xenForo forum software. Okay so phpbb is pretty limited in what it can do and i have been watching xenForo closely http://xenfo...

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Minor forum maintenance done

By Liam Dawe, Oct 31, 2010

Minor forum maintenance done Some of you may have seen the forum acting up for a minute or two. Was installing an admin mod for me to be able to remind inactive users that they are registered here. T...

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We will be featured in Ubuntu's "Full Circle Magazine"

By Liam Dawe, Oct 26, 2010

We will be featured in Ubuntu's "Full Circle Magazine" Hopefully thanks to this post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php...

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We have been featured on...

By Liam Dawe, Oct 25, 2010

[B][/B]A thank you thread to random sites linking to us. While not front page news worthy as it hasn't given us much hits and i don't speak that language ->