0 Dota 2

Dota 2

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Technically Dota 2 is in closed beta, but there are so many codes flying around the net that it may as well be open at this point. Even if it takes a quick request on a forum though, Dota 2 is a phenomenon you should at least play to experience, and now is a good time.

A brief tutorial now points out the ropes, with Steam Community stepping in to provide guides to the original MOBA/whatever-you-want-to-call-this-genre-if-not-MOBA.

Don't expect a warm welcome or easy learning curve from this surprisingly complex game, but bring a few friends and you have a good chance of being hooked on one of the biggest crazes in PC history.

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0 Planetside 2

Planetside 2

Planetside 2 is an epic, all-out battle so ridiculously impressive, you'll give yourself a quick pinch every time you remember it's completely free. There are in-game purchases of course, but you can still dive into gaming's biggest ever battlefield and be useful using just default gear.

There's simply nothing like taking part in a massed assault on an enemy base and coming out on top, or living in a world where an enemy convey could appear on the horizon at any second. If you need any proof that 'free' doesn't mean making compromises any more, Planetside 2 will provide it.

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0 Zuma Blitz

Zuma Blitz

Most Facebook games aren't much fun. Zuma Blitz might just go too far the other way. It's all the fun of regular Zuma - shooting balls before they get all the way round a track - but now bolstered with high-score tables devoted to your friends, new toys to unlock, and a weekly reset to keep you playing.

You might need to squint a bit on high-resolution screens, but the satisfying click of a shot landing into place never starts feeling old. There are paid-for-items if you want to boost your performance, but you can easily play without.

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0 Moonbase Alpha

Moonbase Alpha

Not just a free game - a free game from NASA. After an accident strikes the titular moonbase, it's your job inMoonbase Alpha to pick up the pieces and save the day. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to play it, but don't expect it to give you an easy time.

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0 Cave Story

Cave Story

A classic Japanese freeware game with a lot of shooting, even more jumping, and a five year development time that still barely explains where all the great ideas came from.Cave Story is a little fiddly to get running, but an absolute must-play that's influenced a great many other indie developers since it came out.

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0 Super Mario Crossover

Super Mario Crossover

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Of course, art's not everything. This fanboy dream seems to have avoided the Nintendo legal Nazgûl for the moment, letting us find out which classic character really is the best suited to take on Super Mario Bros. (Hint: It's Bill from Contra).

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0 Desktop Dungeons

Desktop Dungeons




Ah, the quest you can complete without running your appetite for monster-slaying. Desktop Dungeons is as simple as heroics get - really, the entire game is about fighting your way up the local monsters' organisation chart without picking a fight with something capable of crushing you back. It's Rogue without the complexity, but very moreish. The perfect way of killing a boring lunchtime.

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0 The Wikipedia Game

The Wikipedia Game

How many steps does it take to get from Sarah Palin to Winnie The Pooh? This excellent web game challenges you to find out. The winner of each round is the one who Wikis their way from A to B in the fewest steps. The Wikipedia Game is terrifyingly addictive, and possibly even a little educational…

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0 Hawken

 Hawken

Jump behind the controls of your own mech and fight it out in a gloriously realised future world with Hawken. They're the 'agile' kind of mech rather than the slow lumbering tanks of MechWarrior Online, so purists should head there instead, but still a change of pace from blitzing around in soldier uniforms with automatic rifles.

Expect to pay to upgrade your starter mech if you enjoy the action, but you can jump in and get the flavour of the thing without paying a single penny.

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0 Marathon Trilogy

Marathon Trilogy

Before Halo, there was Marathon - Bungie's FPS series on the Mac. Now that Halo Reach has brought an end to the series (at least for the moment), why not celebrate with a trip back to see where it all started?

Bungie has made Marathon completely free, and with an open-source app, called Aleph One, it's playable on the PC as well. You'll need to download quite a few files, but your reward will be an admittedly very old-school FPS that puts more of a focus on narrative than you might expect, where much of Bungie's philosophy was born.

	Marathon (4.7 mb) Marathon 2 (25.8 mb) Marathon Infinity (35.5 mb) Anvil (v1.0.3, 480 kb) Forge (v1.0.3, 1.3 mb)

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