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Good Freeware Gaming Portal?
marioBrosse writes "I've been Googling around for a while, and can't find a decent free game portal. Everybody knows there are excellent free games available for download, such as GeneRally, Little Fighters 2, and various Civilization and Tron clones. Did I miss the one great free gaming site, or is there a huge lack of one in the gaming world ? I'm dreaming of an free game portal referencing freeware and shareware games for Windows, Linux, and MacOs, with categorization, rating systems, and more."
This is the best one I have found, rating system, everything you asked for. :)
The Underdogs
No I didnt spell check this post...
Many many games, especially web games (Java, Shockwave) disappear after a few months. Most kids would love a CD full of these things. Are they archived anywhere?
FreeGames.com
Note: I'm not familiar with the site at all, but a cursory look seems to confirm that you are after something like it.
I'm dreaming of an free game portal referencing freeware and shareware games for Windows, Linux, and MacOs, with categorization, rating systems, and more.
That's funny: I'm dreaming of Pamela Anderson! Well, I guess this *is* a geek site.
happypenguin.org
Secondly, how dare you post links to Windows games.. you know that most of us are running the One True Platform (TM) and thus disbelieve and reject the existence of That Other OS (TM)
Specifically, the Games section is quite nice. It fits your desired description, has a great selection, and you can sort it by various things such as operating system, license, file size, popularity, user rating, etc.
Oops!
I don't get it. Why would anyone need anything other than Nethack?
-Sean
I like to look around GameHippo for freeware games. Reviews and quite a large listing of games. The user comments are full of trolls, so don't take them all that seriously.
FYI:
Download.com will start charging software creators who want their downloads listed. Me things this will not be a good place for free software anymore!
-- these are only opinions and they might not be mine.
You say you've tried googling, but a search for freeware "little fighters 2" returns the first choice as World of Free Games, which seperates games by genre, and has ratings. If you switch to the list view, you can sort by them, too.
It's actually got a lot of definately NOT fun software to wade through, but Sourceforge actually has quite a few fun games that you won't find in your Linux distributions by default. You just have to sort beta or stable games for whatever platform you like in the software map.
My favorite game hosted by Sourceforge: Vega Strike. It's a 3D space combat + trading + ship improvement game with pretty decent graphics.
no thanks
There are many games currently available written using PyGame. Solarwolf is a good one. :)
This might not be exactly what you are looking for, but in the spirit of slashdot and good karma, it is open source
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jason
Most sites i have found in the past are geared towards windows. GameHippo is absolutley huge, but it only caters to windows.
Ok guys, I finally found what I was looking for. gamehippo.com is cool, even if there's no linux game .
SOLDAT!
Check out Gamehippo.com. They have a nice listing of freeware titles, with comments, editorial review, and peer review.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
You post a link to a warez site directly onto slashdot, who can kill them first... the slashdotters or the cops?
I don't know if you will find a *good* cross platform games database, but for commercial, free and shareware games for Linux, nothing beats happypenguin.org. The ratings system isn't the best, but the user comments and forums make up for that. When a version of a game exists for another platform, it's often noted.
http://www.addictinggames.com
Did you try looking under sourceforge.net under games? I have found some great stuff there.
As underdog, hippo and happypenguin were already listed i though i'd anyway give a list of w32 freeware games links:
Gamedev.net -- good ressources for game developers and lists current projects... some good free games.
Download Net -- a great source for freeware and classic pc games (mostly windows)
MegaGames -- A good freeware section here.
RareWare -- This site is dedicated to all kind of games that have two things in common: they are small in size (max. 10mb) and are great to play.
have fun!
-- search the web
has a TON of free games. Albeit, they are mostly
highly offensive games.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
cd /usr/portage/app-games/
/usr/ports/games
ls
on Gentoo
OR
cd
ls
on *BSD
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
remakes of old games...
I can't believe no one's mentioned Hardwar in this thread. Hardwar is a great little game with a dedicated following. If my link doesn't work just google hardwar, and many, many fansites will come up.
Thanks for some of the great links. Also try these:
. madmonkey.netw .emudek.org/shootemup (huge collection of shoot'em ups)
http://www.freestyle-freeware.co.uk
http://www
http://www.fullgames.sk
http://ww
Who needs to download games, there are lots of good free online games. I play Hattrick, a soccer manager game.
It's much easier to play these during work too, and it's automatically networked multiplayer :-)
I believe posters are recognized by their sig. So I made one.
Awww damnit, my first troll post. Who mods this anyways?? Was it you Jesus? You're pissing me off.
www.happypenguin.org (member happypuppy.com??)