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Linux at Home – Take a break with rapid gameplay

June 5, 2020 John O'Donnell Games, Internet

In this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can make the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged. The change of lifestyle enforced by Covid-19 is an opportunity to expand our horizons, and spend more time on activities we have neglected in the past.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: tetris – terminal interface for Tetris

March 2, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Games, Reviews, Software

tetris is a terminal interface for Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov.

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Gaming Chat

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Retro Gaming – Week 17

February 19, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Games

For this week, I’m going to look at a few retro games, all nestling in Raspbian’s repositories. Free and open source gaming.

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Gaming Chat

Best Free Voice Chat Software for Linux Gaming

June 12, 2018 Steve Emms Games, Software

It’s estimated that more than 1.4 billion people play computer games, with about 750 million of them participating in online gaming. That’s a colossal market for Linux to tap. The design of online games is diverse, ranging from simple text-based environments to the incorporation of complex graphics and immersive virtual worlds.

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Go Ollie

24 Addictive Free Linux Games (Part 3 of 3)

December 14, 2017 Steve Emms Games, Software

In this third and final segment, we recommend a further 8 free Linux games that are great fun to play, highly playable and above all have a special addictive quality. We suspect that there will be a few games here that even the ardent Linux gamer will not have tried before.

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Uebergame

24 Addictive Free Linux Games (Part 1 of 3)

October 14, 2017 Steve Emms Games, Software

The purpose of this article is to identify some of our favourite free Linux games which have these addictive qualities.

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