Attention Cheapskates: 1UP’s 101 Free Games Feature Just Might Save Your Wallet
The college composition class I teach features a 5-week unit on video games (surprised?); the final assignment in this little gaming crash course requires my students to find a game to play and write about on their own. Needless to say, when I was designing the course, I knew full well that not all of my students would have a gaming console–which is why I relied on 1UP’s sorta-annual 101 Free Games feature to give my systemless disciples something to play on the same computers they’d later be using to crank out a 1200-word paper on the subject.
Now that my teaching gig’s almost over–my assistantship is peacefully coming to a close–I’m looking at a long summer full of free time, but completely lacking in income. So it’s more than fitting that 1UP’s newest 101 Free Games feature just went live. As someone who might be limited to backlog titles over the next three months, this article is a total godsend.
As with the previous articles, 101 Free Games 2009 is broken up into handy sections, so you can zero in on the genre you want to waste most of your time with. The only notable omission of this tour de force is the realm of MMORPGs; there are a ton of free ones out there, but to be fair, very few are worth checking out–and I certainly wouldn’t want to be the guy responsible for playing enough free MMORPGs to decide which ones are the best.
But every man has his price; and this summer, mine will be surprisingly low.
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