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...

    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 ...

    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...

    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...

    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).

The article link leads to a dungeon I randomly generated for Morrowind and put in in Seyda Neen. I'll update with a picture later sometime, showing the actual location of the hatch. It's many levels, and made to allow one to have a dungeon experience similar to other hack-and-slash games that Morrowind lacked. I called it Arg Domurg (crappy name, sure, but pseudo-Daedric and really easy to come up with), and published it on Filefront. Go get it!

    Griffon Legend is a wonderful Zelda-esque dark action RPG. It's free, and plays very smoothly. Its music is dark and intriguing, its graphics are wonderful, and all-in-all, it's a five @ game. Basically hack through enemies, level up, beat boss, collect items, use them, and try to survive alone against a lot of angry foes. All in all, a good, if rather unfufilling for those less amused than me, experience. I've played it a long time ago, and rediscovered it today. A good coffe...

    Windom XP sp-2 is a game based on the OS wars. Play as Linux or Windows and duke it out. It's an anime giant robot fighting game. I need say no more. It gets five @'s. It has simple controls, a fair system, good graphics (if simplistic), and just all-around awesome. There are plenty of mechs to choose from, and the music and levels, if repetitive, are good for the most part. It has AI and network play.     Screenie below (Self-taken, ingame after explosion on...

    Ever wanted to command hordes of religious fanatics versus hordes of hardcore soldiers? Look no further. I present: The Classic, the Only, the Amazing Command and Conquer!!!     Anyways, with that out of the way, I continue to the serious part of Command and Conquer. It's one of the oldest and most respected RTS games ever, with music by the famous Frank Klepacki, and it is heralded as the game that sparked a genre, though Westwood had earlier RTS games....

    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.

    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 ...

Dwarf Fortress is probably the most complex game as of 2008, and it's definitely the most complex ASCII game. Okay, I kid you not, the Wiki is probably way over 200 MB, and doesn't have many pictures (and if it does, they aren't huge BMP's). It's huge. There's so much stuff in it. You can build most anything that comes to mind. And it's updated often. It's easy to mod. I've done it. You can get a lot of cool things. And you can remove the innate alcohol dependency of the dwarves, if you n...