If you're looking for the best free downloadable games, I only hope you're not using Linux or a Mac, because free games are pretty hard to find anyway, as long as you're not into Flash games you can play in your browser. After all, we're talking about free downloadable games, right? Considering this, we'll take out Flash games from the start, although some of them can be easily downloaded and enjoyed offline.

OK, ready or not, here's a quick list of the best free downloadable games I managed to play so far - and be sure that most of them can't match today's commercial games, but if you have some old computer lying around, most of them can put it to good use(anyway, that doesn't mean there aren't any free downloadable games that can make even today's powerful computers to sweat a little, like Nexuiz).

1. Return To Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a pretty realistic shooter that allows you to fight other people online and team work is the key to success. Based on the single player game Return to Castle Wolfenstein, released back in 2001, this game is still far from its final hour.

2. True Combat: Elite is a modification for the Enemy Territory game that turns it into a modern day shooter from the rusty WW2 maps and weapons used by the original, but beware - starting off could be extremely tricky online, since you can't simply walk in the open and shoot around, because one bullet can kill!

3. Since I mentioned Nexuiz earlier, here you have it - a really fast-paced shooter reminding me of Quake 3 - after all, it uses its graphics engine, but heavily modified, so it's even better than Quake 3 - just give it a try, it's free, and it doesn't bite!

4. Tremulous is another excellent shooter based on the id Tech 3 graphics engine from Quake 3, offering Aliens vs Humans multiplayer team combat with some RTS elements.

5. Leaving shooters behind, we have The Battle For Wesnoth, a great online multiplayer TBS game with RPG elements with development going on at full speed since 2003. Best part of it - it's corss-platform, so if you can't reach a Windows PC, don't worry - it also runs on Macs and most Linux-based PCs!

6. Getting back to the shooters realm, I only have one more to tell you about - Alien Arena, a game that takes the old id Tech 2 engine where it has never gone before, making all those who see it go "WOW!" when looking back at Quake 2, the game that used it for the first time.

7. No, this is not a game, but simply a useful advice - if you want more, just be sure to use Google to find the best free downloadable games to suit your gaming needs, but since it is my duty and pleasure helping you, here's a page worth its value in gold - the Wikipedia freeware games page. It may not be the ultimate resource, since I don't think such a resource exists, but it's a great place to start.

Just one more thing - as usual, if you have something useful to add, don't be shy and drop your valuable hints below. After all, there's always one more free downloadable game to discover hiding somewhere...

With over 11 million subscribers and still counting, World of Warcraft is one of the most impressive MMORPGs, if not THE most impressive of them all. So far, so good, but... who wouldn't enjoy a World of Warcraft movie? A real movie, maybe one to compete with Lord of the Rings! Well, that may not be only my dream, but it still seems to be pretty far away.

I don't think there's room for the "why" question here, since if we look at the Wrath of The Lich King expansion, with over 2.8 million units sold in the first 24 hours, there's no doubt that a World of Warcraft movie would surely bring in a lot of people to see it, and I can only hope this long wait lying ahead will pay off in the end.<-125x125 Button - right->

While Frank Pearce, the director of product development at Blizzard, has revealed to MTV Multiplayer that the WoW movie project is still in the first stages of development and Legendary Pictures is still looking for screenwriters, we all have big hopes.

"Legendary Pictures is currently trying to assign some names to write the screenplay and find someone to direct it, so it’s still really early in production. They want to make sure they get the right talent for those different parts, especially the screenwriting, because that’s the foundation for the movie," said Pearce.

All I want is to see Angelina Jolie playing some partially nude, evil witch. Can I have at least that, please? Apart from that, it really doesn't matter! ;)

There's a tornado approaching, can you feel it? I know it! I can even bet on it, but I would rather not do such a thing, since I hate gambling. Did you run in the cellar already? Well, if you have a cellar, and some bottles of wine there, I can't say going down is a bad idea, but first I have to tell you a few things about the tornado I mentioned and what comes with it...

...because I am not talking about the weather, since the December shopping spree is coming closer, and that's what I see as a tornado. If you think the economic climate is going to hold people back from shopping next month, then I think you're wrong. Of course, I could also be wrong, but that's what remains to be seen. Now, let's get to the Geek Squad, shall we?

If you don't have a console yet, <-125x125 Button - right->I hope you'll get one for Christmas. I don't have any relatives in the industry, but I think about grabbing one for myself too, from time to time, so it's that kind of feeling you get when others managed to do what you still think about. Don't get me wrong - for me, it's a pleasant feeling - just knowing that "somebody got there..."

To make a long story short, here's what Best Buy's Geek Squad announced for this "shopping tornado" comin' up - in-store services including setting up and enabling parental controls on the console, and while the geeks can tell parents how to set up the controls, if in-home setup is chosen, they can help with game specific questions as well, with in-home setup options including connecting the console to the Internet.

All the above, and maybe a little more, for a $29.99 fee, if the console doesn't come from Best Buy, but we're talking about in-store service here, sicne there's no word out about the in-home setup. If only they would do it for cookies, that would really make video games consoles services something really nice to have around Christmas, don't you think?...

If you're a console gamer, then I am sure that placing a Grand Theft Auto 4 preorder is not something you have in mind, unless you want to use it as a gift. In fact, buying Grand Theft Auto 4 as a gift now would be a great idea, since you will buy one gift, and get two! How's that possible? Well, it's very easy - you simply place a Grand Theft Auto 4 preorder now, and you will get the PC version of the game next month, along with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as a bonus!

When talking about biggest holiday titles for PC gamers, Grand Theft Auto IV(or GTA 4, GTA IV, Grand Theft Auto 4, take it as you wish) is surely something you can't miss, and I won't, either, especially since I had to buy a truck full of beer for my console owner friend that I told you I had to visit a few times too many when we talked about GTA 4 cars.

Now, the time has come to give you a hint worth my weight in gold(I am not extremely fat, but wind doesn't blow me off the road, either) - <-250x250 Square - right->while buying the retail copy is something most PC gamers usually do, this time you can get it on Steam, and the pre-purchase will bring you Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for free!

As you can see in the image a bit back up, you will have to take out of your account $49.99 for the Grand Theft Auto 4 preorder, but since Vice City currently sells for $9.99 on Steam, being able to grab them both at once is a pretty good deal, in my opinion.

Anyway, I will always love much more being able to hold a game in my hands, rather than getting some bargain for a digital download...

Hacking my hardware was always something that attracted me, but I have chosen to stuck with some moderate overclocking and once I even used a custom, unofficial BIOS for a mainboard with problems, a few years ago - if you can consider overclocking to have something in common with "hacking hardware," anyway. Well, today we'll have a little chat about PSP hacking, and since there's nothing new about Nintendo DSi hacking, I think this should be good at least for some of those into bending their game console to their will...

This story also directs a ray of light over Nintendo DS' recent gains over Sony's handheld, since things become pretty clear - if the PSP has piracy and hacking issues, a title for the DS could bring more money than one for the PSP, since this last one is more likely to be pirated. Of course that Sony hoped the PSP-3000<-125x125 Button - right-> to be free of hacks, but this freedom has been taken away earlier than expected.

Only a month after its release, the PSP-3000 was cracked by some smart boys, who released a battery, known as “Lite Blue Tool”, which can be purchased for 30 dollars. This battery allows you to put the console in full service mode, and it also works with older models of the PSP.

Sold by Datel, a company from England, the battery has a switch allowing you to move from service mode into normal operation, and since you can use it to downgrade the firmare of your PSP and run those tools useful for piracy and hacking...there you have it - PSP hacking, now done with a simple battery's switch!