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As part of its recruitment campaign the US Air Force has sponsored three free Midway games. They’re not the newest games, but a free game is a free game.
The games are The Suffering, Area 51 and Rise & Fall Civilisations at War. The US Air Force has in the past demonstrated its willingness to laugh at itself with its continued extensive support of the Stargate series, and including Area 51 as one of the titles here just continues that theme.
The download site links to the Air Force’s DoSomthingAmazing.com and the games themselves contain ads. Definitely worth downloading if your connection can cope with the 6GB it will take to get them. Update: note: because they’re ad supported they won’t let you play without an internet connection to load the ads. So much for my on the train gaming.
Full Spectrum Warrior is also available. It’s not listed on the promo page but it is mentioned on this 1UP article. You can grab it here (it’s another 1.6GB). That was a great game on the XBox, I’ve never played the PC version, I’ll have to see if it’s any different.
Just as I posted about them still being in private beta, gog.com has just gone into public beta mode
Also announced today is that Strategy First & Pluto13 will be releasing their games on gog. This means that games like Disciples: Sacred Lands & Gothic are going to be available soon.
There’s a fairly active forum community on the site too. There’s forums for each game where you can ask support questions or just discuss the game, plus a general discussion group.