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Sierra just made the multiplayer part of F.E.A.R. a free download!
Seeing this, cnet compiled a list of other games that are available for free. Take a look, there’s probably something you’ll like.
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from the cnet article:

August 17, 2006, 10:02 AM PDT

F.E.A.R. Combat is here–but it’s not the only free game you can download

Posted by: John P. Falcone

As of today, Vivendi’s F.E.A.R. Combat is now available as a free download. (The price of “free,” of course, is filling out a short questionnaire with your standard contact information and a marketing survey about the game.) The game is an updated multiplayer-only version of last year’s impressive PC shooter. Servers will no doubt be jammed by a deluge of eager downloaders in these first few hours, so it’s a perfect time to check out our updated Gratis Gaming feature, which highlights more than a dozen of our favorite PC gaming downloads that you can get for free.

In addition to F.E.A.R. Combat, we’ve added Abuse, a classic 2D side scroller. With the exception of America’s Army (which has always been a freebie), all of the other games on the list were once available commercially, in one form or another. But there was a long list of second-stringers that didn’t quite make the cut, for one reason or another: convoluted setup, noncommercial beta, or often just too old. Rather than keep the “B team” locked away on our hard drive, however, we figured we’d list them here. After all, what’s a moldy oldie to one person can be a retro classic to another. (Links below are to files on CNET Download.com where possible; otherwise, the links are to the respective publisher’s Web sites.)

DOS-era classics:

BioMenace: This sidescroller is an early title from 3D Realms, the creators of Duke Nukem and Prey.
Elder Scrolls Arena: Morrowind fans can see where the saga started; just be sure to download the DOSbox utility that’s needed to run it in Windows.

The Cinemaware Vault: These vintage-1980s graphical adventures and sports games were state-of-the-art back in the day:

Antheads

Wings
Defender of the Crown
It Came From the Desert
The King of Chicago

Lords of the Rising Sun
Rocket Ranger

S.D.I.
Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon

The Three Stooges

TV Sports: Basketball
TV Sports: Boxing

TV Sports: Football

TV Sports: Baseball

“Free” MMOs–with strings attached

Anarchy Online: You can play this MMORPG for free until January 15, 2007, but you won’t have access to the expansion-pack areas.

Planetside: Like AO, this online shooter is open to the masses until March 24, 2007, albeit with restrictions.
Knight Online: This fantasy-based MMO offers free areas, with pay-to-play upgrade options.

Free online virtual communities

Second Life: It may be a stretch to call this online virtual community a “game,” but it is free.
There: The Second Life caveat applies here as well.

Noncommercial freebies:

Nexuiz: Despite originating from self-proclaimed “amateur developers,” the latest iteration of this deathmatch-centric shooter offers impressive graphics and bot-based single-player action.
Penumbra: This first-person horror adventure serves as a demo of Frictional Games’ physics engine.
Tremulous: This open-source game mixes elements of first-person shooters and role-playing.

Interested in more free games? We drew this list from a variety of online sources, including: Liberated Games, Remain in Play, Mega Games, and Wikipedia’s entry on “abandonware.” If you find any gems that aren’t listed here or in the main feature, be sure to share them.

Assistant Editor David Rudden contributed to this article.

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As you may of noticed, the right side of this site has a new guest: my chatbox. It was a project i made a while back and hardly ever used. It needs a little bit more work, but i got it shoehorned in here pretty well.

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so google fiiiiiinaly got nFriedly.com up to the first hit when you search for nfriedly <g>, nathan friedly <g>, or “nathan friedly” <g>. for a while there, nfriedly.com wasnt even on the front page! wft was up with that!? oh well, its workin right now ^_^

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whelp, looks like they fucked it up again. I guess I wasn’t helping myself by having my name linked to google…

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yay, its fixed again ^_^

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this site is prety much gonna be my other other website / blog.. the one where i can post shit about me on that won’t help get me a job but somebody might think is cool.

speaking of that, heres a few absolutely rockin websites that you may or may not of heard of:

• meebo - online chat that connects to prety much everrything and runs incredibly smooth. it has an option to remember all your screen names so you can sign on with one login and password. and it rocks.
• netvibes - my current homepage, and one i think ill keep. you know how google and msn both have homepages where you can put your (1) email account and get the weather and some rss feads? wel netvibes is that only done way better. for starters, it can check both my gmail accounts. it has a very cool reader built in for the rss feeds, and you can have tabs of pages, so all my news / weather / email are on the front page, while i have a second tab for all my weekly podcasts and shows and such. again, v cool
• ask a ninja - absolutely hillarious. ask a ninja is one of the aformentioned shows on my netvibes second tab. ill put one of em at the end of this post here. all the video is hosted by…
• youtube - the front page tends to suck.. but if you dig around theres some realy awesome videos on there such as The Oregon Trail Adventure, MySpace The Movie, Sacred Agent Man, some Gundam Wing (I havnt watched any of em yet though), and tons of other cool vids.

Ask A Ninja Question 18 “Minjas”

oh, and im working on a new theme for this site. this ones cool, but not realy what i had in mind.

sorry for the huge post. ill try to neep em down from now on…

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