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What a classic! Now free for download in celebration of its 12th anniversary.

Just a quick post about a previously commercial game which is now available for free.

Purge is free and currently 100% user supported. A new version of Purge, called Final Purge, will be released as a free promotional title for the PushTop.com free games website.

Purge is an online-only PC computer game. It is a hybrid First-Person-Shooter / Role-Playing-Game set in the near future accounting a war between the diametrically opposed forces of science-fiction (the Order) and fantasy (the Chosen). Technology versus magic. Science versus religion. It is a great divine war, where followers pray for intervention from the extraterrestrial deity Evod or the supernatural deity Mabus.

Read more about it, and if you like the sound of it already, download.

Its great to see Urban Terror (UrT) is still going strong. I can remember downloading the first beta they released – and hating it. Downloading the first major release, however, was different and I fell in love. A great example of a true total conversion, moving away from the original game (quake 3), pushing the engine and pulling the talents from the MOD community.

I have not had a game of UrT for a good couple of years now, so as soon as I heard they had released version 4.0, I grabbed it. A new feature for this release is that they have bundled in ioUrbanTerror (based on ioQuake3, and of course the GPL’d source for Quake 3), so players without Quake can play. I chose to install the ioUrbanTerror version as to not fumble around with installing Quake and its Point Release updates again.

One thing I have noticed is that they have packaged the BattlEye anti-cheat engine into ioUrbanTerror. This is a good thing, and from what is being said on the UrT forum many servers are already moving over to ioUrbanTerror from Quake3 and PunkBuster. There seem to be a good number servers online already for it.

So, give it a try. What is there to loose?

For those of you enjoying the latest incarnation of Battlestar Galactica, you will be pleased to know the folks over at Beyond the Red Line have released a demo of the eagerly awaited Freespace 2 total conversion.

It’s free, does not actually require you own Freespace 2 due to its use of an open source port, and from my initial few games looks very polished. After playing it more I may post an in depth review, we will just have to see…