10 Awesome Free Online Games

The cash crunch is still on and our library of games isn't growing. What better way to celebrate this festive recession season, than with a list of 10 free online games!

Urban Terror

Urban Terror is a total conversion mod for Quake III Arena that was released way back in the day, when the Counter-Strike (CS) community was just cropping up. The game didn't quite become as popular, but there were loads of people who'd play this over CS. That was mainly because they'd get their asses whooped too bad in CS. When the Quake 3 engine went open source, this game become completely free.

If you're a Street Fighter fan chances are you've already heard of the not-all-that-official X-Men vs. Street Fighter Online website. This place keeps stats of players, tracks ladder match winners and does all of it for free. You can play the downloaded version or the online version, should you choose to.

Tribes 2

Tribes 2 is credited to being one of the pioneers in online FPS games, and was one of the first few titles to feature deployable turrets and vehicles. The game's available as a free download over at Tribesnext, a community site that's being keeping servers up and running long after Vivendi pulled the plug.