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Would you please tell me how to install Windows games on Ubuntu? I really need it.

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I suggest you to try PlayOnLinux which is a wrapper for wine.

You can get an overview about Gaming and Ubuntu in the wiki.

By the way, Valve is currently working on a Steam version for linux.

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must refer this first :- wine for games?

there are several software available for that "wine" is one of them, you should look at following links :-

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/wine

http://www.unixmen.com/install-and-configure-wine-to-play-latest-windows-games-in-linux-ubuntu-linuxmint-fedora/

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To get the latest developement version of PlayOnLinux, open a terminal and type:

git clone https://github.com/PlayOnLinux/POL-POM-4

alternatively you can do the following:-

wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | apt-key add -
wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_squeeze.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install playonlinux

Then run the playonlinux Click on the Install button in this window

Click on the Install button in the above window

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Install the game and enjoy

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