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    #101  Edited By ISuperGamerI

    Basically, a lot of the games that people have suggested are great and you should also check out FIFA Online which has open beta now and Need for Speed World.

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    #102  Edited By NekuSakuraba
    Toribash is a very unique and fun fighting game.
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    #103  Edited By Marsher

    Shattered Horizon $9.99 on steam until Sunday (June 6th), and also free to play this weekend June 3rd - 6th

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    #104  Edited By NekuSakuraba
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    #106  Edited By ISuperGamerI
    @SwirlinDervish said:

    " Shattered Horizon $9.99 on steam until Sunday (June 6th), and also free to play this weekend June 3rd - 6th "

    You need a powerful computer to run that game, it's fun for a few hours. :)
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    #107  Edited By MDomier

    Dude...Killing floor is a great shooter for the PC and it's cheap.  Nothing like shooting Zombies with a Grenade Launcher!!!

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    #108  Edited By Ashsaver

    How About Stepmania It's like Dance Dance Revolution,and it's free. and since you have source games you should get Source SDK and play some source mods like Obisidian Conflict,some mods are total convertion.
     
    There are a lot MMO out there,so many that i can't possibly list them all myself. you could try check the site that dedicated to MMO like mmosite

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    #109  Edited By nick69

    League of Legends is free and awesome. 
     
    And Minecraft is really fun. The paid version is where it's at. 

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    #110  Edited By BadJackDaniels

    I recommend the game Alien Swarm, absolutely free, the creators of Half-Life.
    http://store.steampowered.com/app/630/

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    #112  Edited By HereAllDay

    Red Alert 3 is $15 till Sunday on the EA store, anyone interested in RTSs should definitely get that one.

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    #113  Edited By PATERSON

    Alien Swarm is free and is really cool.

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    #114  Edited By ILuvMsMarvel
    @PATERSON:
    Free for now, however, will it remain so? That question holds true for any free game on steam. Undoubtably Steam has had some quality and entertaining games for free, even if for only a short period of time.
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    #116  Edited By Anund
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    #117  Edited By KrustINC77

    alien swarm on steam is freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! 4 player coop
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    #118  Edited By e102

    try some indi, it's free!

    • Iji
    • elona
    • Cave Story
    • Dwarf Fortress
    • AI: War (not free)
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    Wow, surprising that none of the games in the Chzo Series of adventure games made by Yahtzee have been mentioned yet.
     
    Four games, 5 Days a Stranger, Trilby's Notes, 7 Days a Skeptic, and 6 Days a Sacrifice
     
    All awesome, and providing some good scares.

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    #120  Edited By Rattle618

    -Shooters: CombatArms is pretty cool for a free game, Americas Army is nice if you have ppl to play with, BF heroes turned really crappy recently so I cant recommend it anymore. 
    -MMO: Stay away from LOTRO cause for what I´ve seen in the F2P beta it´s going to be even more expensive than paying a subscription, Runes of Magic is ok, but it´s way too ugly for me, there are a lot of free mmo´s but most of them are crap, there is a good site that deals in this genre exclusively... MMOhut.com 
    -RTS: Battleforge is cool but gets boring after a while if you dont put cash into it, Im looking forward to Age of Empires Online... 
    And many others that Im not remembering now, if I think of something else I´ll add it.

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    #121  Edited By zepp

    All of the aforementioned games are great, but honestly, just get Steam and follow what deals they have going. They always do this thing starting Tuesday nights, it's called Mid-Week Madness. They always have really good deals on games, some of the games are kinda meh, but you can pick up some awesome one's for dirt cheap. This week the game is Plain Sight. I haven't played it, but I've heard decent things about it and it's on sale for 2bucks. At that price who gives a fuck if it sucks! Anyways that's just my two cents. 

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    Alien Swarm on steam is great, and free. Quake live is the best retro multiplayer shooter experience you can get these days. Canabalt. Super Mario Crossover is great. Moonbase Alpha is pretty cool, and Runes of Magic is the best playing/looking free mmo ive seen to date, though i've heard good things about runescape.

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    #123  Edited By spiceninja

    Knights of the Old Republic is $2.50 on Steam today. GO BUY IT!

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    #124  Edited By nolanvoid
    @PlasmaBeam44 said:
    " Knights of the Old Republic is $2.50 on Steam today. GO BUY IT! "
    Incredible deal, incredible game!
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    #125  Edited By cjmabry

    Haven't read through the thread yet but it's only 13$ now. It'll soon go up to 30$ when the final release is out.
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    #126  Edited By coughlanio

    Week-long THQ sale on Steam this week. 
     
    Today's games are all three Red Faction games, €7.50.

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    #127  Edited By PercyChuggs

    Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Prypiyat are now $10 as a bundle on Steam. 
     
    Amnesia: The Dark Descent is $10 on their web store, $13.33 or something similar on Steam.

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    OMG, OMG, zombie thread!!!! 
     
    but yeah baseball fever and mlb 2k10 is like 2 bucks

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    #129  Edited By Jeffsekai

    Play Vindictus.

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    #130  Edited By Inka

    Urban terror 
    Most epic game I have played it for a year and a half and I still keep coming back to it :D 
    I play almost everyday

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    #131  Edited By NekuSakuraba
    @Inka said:

    " Urban terror Most epic game I have played it for a year and a half and I still keep coming back to it :D I play almost everyday "

    Inform me of this game, I have never heard of it.
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    #132  Edited By Ryax
    @NekuSakuraba: the wonderful word of the web
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    #133  Edited By NekuSakuraba
    @Ryax said:
    " @NekuSakuraba: the wonderful word of the web "
    In the time you made that for me, you could have done a funny dance. 
     
    Fail? or WIN?
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    #134  Edited By Ryax
    @NekuSakuraba said:
    " @Ryax said:
    " @NekuSakuraba: the wonderful word of the web "
    In the time you made that for me, you could have done a funny dance.  Fail? or WIN? "
    ima go ahead and check this off as a win. i avoid dancing at all costs, my brittle bones cant take it anymore
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    #136  Edited By Mmmslash

    Dwarf Fortress
    Space Station 13
    ADOM
    Nethack
     
    When you're done with those in a decade, let me know and I'll make some more suggestions.

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    #137  Edited By Ketchupp
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    #138  Edited By Geno
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    #139  Edited By mike
    @Geno: Is it a misprint? What is going on here? The bandwidth must be costing them more than ten cents...
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    #140  Edited By MrKlorox
    @MB said:

    " @Geno: Is it a misprint? What is going on here? The bandwidth must be costing them more than ten cents... "

    No misprint. It's been this way since the 19th I believe. edit: nevermind. It was the 20th
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    #141  Edited By Geno
    @MB said:

    " @Geno: Is it a misprint? What is going on here? The bandwidth must be costing them more than ten cents... "

    Well this is inevitably going to be reported to every corner of the interweb...the publicity for GFWL would be worthwhile I believe. It's also a show of good will from MS to PC gamers. I've personally bought Gears of War and Viva Pinata to show my appreciation (not to mention they're worthwhile games anyway). 
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    #142  Edited By sjupp
    @Geno said:
    " @MB said:

    " @Geno: Is it a misprint? What is going on here? The bandwidth must be costing them more than ten cents... "

    Well this is inevitably going to be reported to every corner of the interweb...the publicity for GFWL would be worthwhile I believe. It's also a show of good will from MS to PC gamers. I've personally bought Gears of War and Viva Pinata to show my appreciation (not to mention they're worthwhile games anyway).  "
    Yup, just saw majornelson post this on his twitter.. I'm thinking of buying like 10. Just because I can.
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    #143  Edited By cjmabry
    @Sjupp said:
    " @Geno said:
    " @MB said:

    " @Geno: Is it a misprint? What is going on here? The bandwidth must be costing them more than ten cents... "

    Well this is inevitably going to be reported to every corner of the interweb...the publicity for GFWL would be worthwhile I believe. It's also a show of good will from MS to PC gamers. I've personally bought Gears of War and Viva Pinata to show my appreciation (not to mention they're worthwhile games anyway).  "
    Yup, just saw majornelson post this on his twitter.. I'm thinking of buying like 10. Just because I can. "
    If they have sales like this they might have a chance against Steam. lol
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    #144  Edited By Charlaxy

    I'm putting together a big list of Cyber Monday deals on PC games on my blog. 
     
    Part 1 with GameStop (and O'Reilly books): 
    http://blog.charlaxian.com/2010/11/cyber-monday-deals.html  
     
    Part 2 with Amazon and BestBuy: 
      http://blog.charlaxian.com/2010/11/cyber-monday-deals-part-2.html 
     FYI, I used Amazon affiliate links, and interestingly the price is lower on a few of those than the price listed on their main page. 
     
    Also, I've been covering Steam every day: 
      http://blog.charlaxian.com/2010/11/steams-give-and-get-sale-day-five.html  
    These prices are good through 10 am PST.  If Steam has more sales today, I'll do a new post on that.
     
    And here's something on D2D's promotions: 
    http://blog.charlaxian.com/2010/11/d2ds-holiday-giveaway-gimmick.html     
     
    Also, I'm watching D2D, GOG, etc., to see if they have any special sales.

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    #145  Edited By Charlaxy

    Here's another post, wherein I shovel through all the shovelware on sale on GamersGate in order to pick out the deals someone might be interested in: 
     
    http://blog.charlaxian.com/2010/11/cyber-monday-deals-part-3-shoveling.html  
     
    Some highlights include:  
    Alpha Protocol - $7.49
    Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY - $10.19 
    Deus Ex Collection - $4.99  
    Eufloria - $7.99
    Evil Genius - $3.98 
    Torchlight - $4.99 
    Tropico 3 - $4.99 
    World of Goo - $2.49 
    X Superbox - $15.99 
    Zombie Driver - $4.97 
     
    There are some other games on there for under $5 as well.  Some of their titles are so bad that I'm tempted to try them for a laugh. 
     
    Update: 
     Today's Steam sale was just posted.  I've reviewed five of the games (Altitude, DogFighter, Lead and Gold, Plain Sight, and Trine), so if you're unsure about them, take a look. 
     
    http://blog.charlaxian.com/2010/11/steams-give-and-get-sale-day-six.html

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    #148  Edited By floodiastus
    @kmdrkul said:
    " I recommend Warsow.  It's a cel-shaded UT style shooter, and it's really high quality. "
    Hmm UT style? Isnt Warsow a Quake 3 mod?
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    #149  Edited By HaroldoNVU
    @akeripper4 said:
    " gog have started their christmas sale 
    http://www.gog.com/en/page/xmas10/ "
    Also Tyrian 2000 is free on GOG. The game was already free and open source but it's nice for those like me who wanted the convinience of having it tied to an account where you could easily go and download it.
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    #150  Edited By captain_clayman

    http://www.gamersgate.com/   
     
    cryostasis is like 3 bucks today.  the other day bioshock was 5 bucks, dead space 7, and stalker clear sky 4 

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