Free and Open Games aren’t a Myth!
Looking for a fun and engaging game, but don’t want to plunk down $60 for the hottest new title (or perhaps a few hundred on an updated gaming rig or console)? Check out this collection of freely available games, across a wide swath of genres!
Gene Expression: Young, agnostic, moderately liberal & smart support free speech
Here’s an interesting breakdown of responses to free speech questions from various demographics. The results are relatively unsurprising of course, if you’re an old, deist conservative with a small vocabulary, you probably don’t think anyone has a right to oppose your viewpoint. Shocking!
Gene Expression: Young, agnostic, moderately liberal & smart support free speech.
FEARnet
Fan of Horror movies? Like free and legal streaming video (in those rare cases that big content gets it right). Check out FEARnet.com, a horror movie portal with some web shows, and a selection of free horror movies. Currently featured is Evil Dead 2, the Bruce Campbell classic and predecessor to the more well known Army of Darkness.
Quake Live Beta
Quake Live, the free-to-play, web-based shooter, developed by FPS legends id, has been released into Open Beta. Now, I’d hit you with some impressions, but I’m currently 11017 deep in the queue. I guess that means there’s some sort of a market for this sort of thing. I’ve previously played Battlefield Heroes, EA’s own beta attempt at the web-based shooter and was left unimpressed. However, id certainly has the chops to pull it off. id’s prolific resume include FPS-defining franchises like Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake.
Speaking of FPS’s, Team Fortress 2, the long-awaited sequel to the original Quake and Half-Life mod is only $10 on Steam this week. If you haven’t played this game, pick it up it’s well worth it, you’d be hard pressed to find a better multiplayer FPS on PC. And, of course, after you fire it up, hop on the dwot TF2 Server and enjoy some quality FPS action.
Oscar Piracy Vending Machine
From the brilliant Free Art & Technology, comes the latest piratical art installation, the “Pirate2Pirate Kopimi Station”. Simply insert USB stick, press button, receive Oscar winning films.
Art, Piracy and Free Culture, a beautiful thing.
Body Ladder
Zombie games are all the rage right now it seems, however, Body Ladder takes your favorite brain munching undead in a new direction. Pile the corpses and reach for the sky!
Abandonia
Beat Gears 2? Need a break from WotLK? Get your retro-gaming on and check out the stockpile of nostalgic titles available at Abandonia, the leading catalog of Abandonware games. With classics like Jagged Alliance and Terminal Velocity, Abandonia has got what you need to slake the retrogaming urges and maintain a healthy and balanced gaming diet.
VLC Media Player Releases New Version
VLC, the do it all, do it well, cross-platform, free and open source media playing powerhouse has dropped a new version as of yesterday. The new release adds even more supported formats, an updated UI, album art, improved library functions, and even YouTube support. VLC was already the king of all media players, but appears to have only gotten better. If you’re not using it, you really should check it out.