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Friday Means Free Games

Posted by Zonk on from the that-means-you-don't-need-money dept.

Joystiq has two posts up linking to sources of free games. Liberated Games offers up single player experiences, while GameOgre's list of free MMOGs will ensure you can get together with other people on the cheap. From the post: "Liberated Games is an online catalog of games that have been released for free in one way or another. This may be the full game, like Grand Theft Auto. Or it might just be the sourcecode, like Doom. Either way, this is a huge list of games that can, in some way, be had for the grand price of zero dollars and zero cents."

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  1. Lacking in cowbell by B00yah · · Score: 2, Informative

    otherwise known as KOL (Kingdom of Loathing)

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  2. Other sites by hackwrench · · Score: 5, Informative

    Home of the Underdogs
    C:DOS
    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22abandonware

    1. Re:Other sites by Elshar · · Score: 1, Informative

      "Abandonware" isn't free anymore than warezed games are (which is basically what the vast majority of that abandonware is, old warez). I think the jist of the submission were games that were actually free. As in released into the public domain, or have some sort of 'free' license associated with it.

      Abandonware isn't 'free'. Its warez.

  3. Re:Not trying to look a gift horse in the mouth... by Nasarius · · Score: 2, Informative

    On that note, be sure to check out Underdogs, which has a ton of great old games for semi-legal download.

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  4. Tell Joystiq to buy a freakin' ad by hackwrench · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.gameogre.com/
    http://www.liberatedgames.org/
    The stories don't appear to even have links to the sites they are talking about!

  5. Re:"free" by LilBlackDemon · · Score: 1, Informative

    Liberated Games has a mix of both open-source games (for those, usually only the engine and a shareware version are available) and "free as in beer" abandonware/marketware (stuff that is released for free in order to promote the release of a sequel, such as "Hidden and Dangerous"). So, both cases are correct.

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  6. Links by Enthused · · Score: 2, Informative

    This article and the article on Joystiq it links to need LINKS to the pages themselves!

    http://www.gameogre.com/: Free MMOGs
    http://www.liberatedgames.com/: Free Single-player Games

  7. C8, maybe? by FearTheFrail · · Score: 1, Informative

    GameOgre's list is missing the platformer recently covered by Slashdot and resurrected by enthusiasts, Castle Infinity. Though they do request donations.

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  8. Open-source games are not generally free by Have+Blue · · Score: 2, Informative

    Usually, what gets open-sourced is only the core engine. The game data files, which would be required to recreate the game experience, remain under their original license and may not be freely distributed; you'd need to own an original copy of the game and use its files with the newly compiled engine.

  9. Not Free! by DavidD_CA · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is this some kind of crazy advertising gimmick?

    FaitH, mentioned in the article with a screen shot, is only free as a limited version according to the company's website:

        http://www.dragonclawstudio.com/faith/upgrade/

    Unless you pay, you only appear to get about 5% of the game.

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  10. Free MMORPG by vga_init · · Score: 2, Informative

    My favorite online RPG is Daimonin. It's a good project; very stable. It's multi-platform, and a new beta will be released soon that fixes all the things I dislike about it. Give it a look; it's bassed on crossfire code, and it's isometric (whatever that means)! :-)

  11. Very strange list. by S3D · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looks like list auther is not very well versed in PC gaming. A lot of old/mediocre games in the list but not best free or free open sourced games like
    wesnoth
    Steel Panthers:World At War
    Steel Panthers:Main Battle Tank
    FreeCiv

  12. Re:Not trying to look a gift horse in the mouth... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    On that note, be sure to check out Underdogs, which has a ton of great old games for semi-legal download.

    No, not "semi-legal". HOTU does have some games which have been released into the public domain or otherwise authorised for redistribution, but the rest - which made up the vast majority of their collection last time I checked - are all absolutely 100% illegal to copy. It's very unlikely anyone will prosecute, but that doesn't make it legal.