You're probably here for a list of good free and open source games. When I say free, I do not mean Free as in Mabinogi, with its cash shop, I mean 100% free. I will say if there's any commercial interest that will affect the average player. Use Google or Wikipedia to find these games.     Battle for Wesnoth: Five @'s. Probably the best turn-based strategy game I've ever played, at least from a military strategy, as opposed to X-COM style. Nice fantasy setti...

    I love Audiosurf. It's probably one of the best games ever. You can play it on and on without getting tired of it.     Audiosurf is a next-generation (in gameplay, not performance requirements) high-speed racing action puzzle game which allows you to play as one of over ten characters with differing difficulty and game style as you race down a track synchronized to your music, in pretty much any format you have, save MID and XM files. I'd recommend it for any...

    I've had Jedi Academy for years. I've played it for years. It's an awesome game. It generally recieves at least 2 play-throughs, one light, one dark (though, occasionally, a couple balanced ones) of the single player campaign. For anti-social people like me, it has bots to allow a single-player FPS arena experience.     Jedi Academy is a great game, with a degree of customization (model, force powers), but, more importantly, lightsabers. The lightsaber gamepl...

    Now, I'm gonna start my review of Avernum 3. Avernum 3 is the third game in the Avernum/Exile co-series (Exile came before Avernum, Avernum's kinda like a remake of it), where the exiled Avernites go up from their cave-lands into the surface worlds of the Empire. Plot aside, it's an awesome game. Plot included, it's an awesome game you feel a need to play for hours at end. I've never beaten the trial version, so I've never bothered buying it (Why buy something you haven't beat...

    RecWar, or Recreational Warfare is a really, really, really old game, with Splitscreen and LAN/Internet play against players and bots. It's really quite a blast, with plenty of weapons, game-modes, and all-around fun. It has a map editor. It gets 5 @'s for all-around good times.     What are you waiting for? A screenshot? I beat that tank just below and to the right of my humvee, by the way. All the vehicles handle differently and have minor changes.

    Sins of a Solar Empire is pretty darn awesome. It takes 2+ hours on large maps, and rarely takes less than 1 hour, but it's worth getting. You can play it a lot, make your own map criteria in game and actual maps out of game, and is a general good experience. It runs on my laptop (+2), looks great (+2), and plays awesome (+1) for a total of five @'s. The only qualm I have is the lack of more in-depth actual diplomacy. It's only thirty dollars, so it's worth at least a shot of ...

    Now, I'm no strategy god, but listen to these no-no's for humans (and aliens) If human, refrain from using your blaster. Ever . The only exception being baiting. This only gets worse if you use a blaster within 30 meters of an alien structure. You will fail to scare a Dretch with that crappy little thing. And, worse, fail to kill him. I tested this tonight, as the Dretch. Fed*. If alien, don't hide in a corner unless you can get out quickly. I experienced this with a ...

    Tribes is an awesome trilogy. I prefer the first for its mods, the second for its multiplayer, and the third for its single player. All are deities among the common rabble of other games. Tribes is one of the longest running game franchises, and really deserves a sequel, though Garage Games is working on that. Seriously, though, Tribes is awesome. All three of them. Vengeance got quite a bit of trouble for its deficient multiplayer, but the singleplayer is enjoyable. Tribes 1 ...

    I started playing TM:NF yesterday, and it's pretty darn fun (erathoniel in game, if you wanna add me). It involves acrobatic high-speed stunt driving or more normal race driving on courses ranging from sprints to marathons.     There are no problems with it, other than the editor crashing occasionally, once I put a lot of objects in my maps to beautify them.     All in all, it gets a four @ rating, for elegant simplicity, good graphics, long...

Dogfight is a 2d combat flight simulator. It's not to be confused with the Kuma Reality game with a similar title. It's a fun enough game, with splitscreen capabilities. It takes place in pretty much any setting you could want, with early flight to relatively recent planes, and even Star Wars vessels (at least in the version I have). It's got a decent amount of realism for a 2d game, and it's only real flaw is that it's a bit glitchy at times. I give it four @'s, and since it's free, and splitsc...

    EA has finally invoked the boycott button. I'm fine if you use DRM in a purchased product. If it really bothers me, I'll get a crack or find a workaround. But, the Spore Creature Creator demo contains Securom, an overly-potent DRM solution that phones home without any grounds for suspicion.    I steer clear of malware on my computer, but now I've discovered that even EA cannot be trusted. You have my boycott notice, EA. I may even pirate a copy of Spore, just beca...

    Elona is a wonderful Japanese (with an English option) rogue-a-like (CRPG-style game with similarities to Rogue, a sub-breed of roguelikes) with wonderful graphics, music, and gameplay. It has a day-night system, weather system, pet system, and many more small wonderful delights too numerous for me to mention.     It's really a wonderful game, with my only complaint being the leveled town missions. Go get it now! Five @'s.     Screenshot (no...

Now, I'm a fan of overhead shooters. Almost all the games I've ever made (like 60% of them, and 90% of the playable ones) are overhead shooters. They are awesome, simple, and have lots of room for improvement. Anyways, RIP 3 takes the generic top-down shooter and adds light RPG elements. You acquire new weapons (off the field) and skills (through level up). Over time you go from a weak version of Death to a near-omnipotent Grim Reaper. It has a "Flower Mode" for those who hate blood (th...

    Stellar Frontier is an awesome, if outdated, space-combat game by Stardock. This article is a humble request to bring it back. Try putting it on the XBox Live arcade and PSN and re-releasing it for PC with minor updates (just engine, not gameplay or graphics), and it'd do awesome in the market.     So, Stardock, please bring back Stellar Frontier.

    Goliath is an awesome indie freeware game taking place in a bleak landscape. It pits a small team of players against a huge behemoth dedicated to ending the existence of humanity. Vehicular combat at its best. Five @'s.     It's only bad for its lack of maps, and internet multiplayer (use Hamachi and you have no problems).