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Playing games in Ubuntu might be seen by some people as an awkward idea, and many more may think that you will be lucky if you find at most a Space Invaders-like game. It is not widely recognized as a mainstream gaming platform like PlayStation, Xbox or Wii, and it’s not as popular as Windows. But Ubuntu does, you might say, under-promise and over-deliver. You’ll be surprised by the sheer amount of possibilities that the casual gamer has at hand.
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© 2010 Emilio Raggi, Keir Thomas, Trevor Parsons, Andy Channelle, Sander van Vugt
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Raggi, E., Thomas, K., Parsons, T., Channelle, A., van Vugt, S. (2010). Playing Games. In: Beginning Ubuntu Linux. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3040-3_19
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