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Freeware EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Captain Forever released, you'll be better at it than me 15 I previously talked about Captain Forever during its pre-launch phase, when you had to pay $20 to access it. The game is now available for free, here. And I'm still horrendous at it. Captain Fore... Strange Adventures in Infinite Space is finally free! 16 Download this, right now. Strange Adventures in Infinite Space used to be the most surprisingly expensive indie game on the PC market -- $20, despite being almost a decade old -- but now it's fre... Addictive one-button platformer of the week: Canabalt 56 I'm not entirely sure why, but I've been replaying Canabalt, a free, browser-based platformer, at least once every two days since it came out.Perhaps I long to luxuriate in the luscious pixel art... SCUMM and Star Wars together at last 19 One of the greatest travesties mankind has ever committed on itself is having let adventure gaming's prime run its course without a LucasArts Star Wars adventure game using the SCUMM engine being... Go down, Moses: for the love of God, play Tower of Heaven 37 If you're in college (or a particularly rambunctious teen) you've probably played a drinking game called King's Cup. Well, substitute the Shlitz for a three-color platformer with an aboslutely ki... Play 6-player Tetris over at Tetris Friends Online 15 When I sat down to discuss Tetris with Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers, the creator and CEOs of The Tetris Company this past E3, one of the more interesting topics was Tetris' status as a sport. ... E3 09: Jade Dynasty is dynamite! 7 Jade Dynasty is the latest free-to-play MMO coming from Perfect Worlds, the distributor of such games as Perfect World International and Ether Saga Online, all based out of China and Asia. If y... Hate paying for games? 1Up has you covered 4 Right now it is 11:23 p.m. on Friday night, and being a totally extremely cool person I am home writing, but I can already tell you that I will probably get no sleep until this post actually goes... A lot of people play RuneScape: Enough to earn a world record, anyway 28 I clearly just don’t get RuneScape. Some time ago, at the insistence of a younger cousin (who played the free MMO religiously), I gave the game a shot, and was subsequently unimpressed. May... Fan remake of Quest for Glory II released 14 Adventure games have a very special place in my heart, particularly those made by Sierra. Sure, the stuff from Lucasfilm Games might have wound up more popular in the end, but one of the first ga... EA Showcase 08: New Battlefield Heroes screens and a trailer 20 [video]99783:157[/video]Free, non-indie games are almost always garbage, or else there's some kind of catch involved, like you getting sued for pirating the damn things. That's why it's so surpri... Google turns Portal into a coding problem 7 I may know next to nothing about the intricacies of programming, but I do know a minimalist 2D version of Portal when I see it. The above images are examples from the third round problem in Googl... Free game is free: Psi-Ops 51 So I heard you like free games? I know I sure do, which is why I've already started downloading Midway's Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy. Sure, it has a weird subtitle, and I don’t really ... Free game is free: Fan made Earthbound spin off available now 22 A lot of Western gamers have been sad for years over Nintendo's continued refusal to localize more games in the Mother/Earthbound series (the home of Smash Bros Brawl characters Ness and Lucas). ... Adventure's not dead: Best freeware adventure games of 2007 27 While the days of LucasArts making games that are worth a damn are more or less gone in this gamer's eyes, the adventure genre is not, although it takes a little more effort to track down the gem... Hey, I can get you Sony's PSP Media Manager v2.5 for free 11 No, this isn't your typical inbox spam. You can have a genuine copy of the Sony PSP Media Manager that typically costs about $30 on retail shelves for free. There's one catch: it's a Japanese dow... Square Enix's free MMO Concerto Gate comes to the US 24 One of those formerly Japan-only, "no fair!" games is actually coming to the US, and its a free MMO from Square Enix to boot!Concerto Gate is a PC MMORPG, but it plays closer to a conso... Warmonger trailer brings the destruction 17 For all you PC gamers out there, Warmonger is a game I've not heard about before now, but it actually looks like it could be quite fun. Everybody loves destructible environments and Warmonger is ... Angel Love Online is the first free MMO on PS3, cute strikes again 26 Come on, you knew it was coming. I am working hard make myself the Offical Destructoid Ambassador of Cute Things, so you know if it's sickeningly sweet, I'm already working hard to bring it to yo... Indie game 'Knytt Stories' has been released! 26 If you haven’t played the original Knytt yet, then what are you waiting for? It’s an incredible 2D platform game that you won’t want to miss out on. Plus, it’s free! Th... Cave Story PSP demo now available! 23 Now that all y'all got your PSP homebrew on courtesy of Lumines, you might be feeling overwhelmed -- thinking "my God, so much crap to load, how will I ever decide?" That's why ... Valve doesn't want to 'nickel-and-dime' you 37 With charges for downloadable content being something of a hot topic, after the debacle over Epic wanting to give us Gears of War maps for free, but being forced at gunpoint to accept wads of ca... Your Wii can now play DivX files: The pr0n floodgates have opened 17 Hooray for homebrew! The recently released Wii Video 9 allows you to convert your video files (mpeg, divx, avi, etc.) into a playable format for your Wii. By converting the files into the MJPEG f... Three cheers for the Independent Games Festival 4 There's nothing an awkward, socially maladjusted dweeb likes more than to put on a tux and get an award. It makes him feel a part of the "normal" world, you see. Enter Independent G... Y's Typists Tutor - best freeware typing game EVAR! 19 Has Mavis Beacon failed you miserably? Can't stand The Typing of the Dead? This new game port might be your solution to faster fingers in the future! A dedicated team of programmers have revi...		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