Alien Swarm is now a full, Source-powered 4-player co-op game (originally a UT 2004 mod), and it will be given away free on Steam on Monday (US time). All you need to do is to download the Steam software and then come back on Monday 20th July at 12pm (US PST) to get the game by going to this page.

Finally, consumers benefit from a copyright lawsuit. As part of a copyright lawsuit, the defence has compiled a list of freely downloadable, and legitimate, EMI songs on the Internet, to counter EMI’s insistence that they never give away free songs on the Internet.

A lot of the links won’t work anymore, but many do, so download away and help prove EMI do give away songs legally.\

Here’s the Google spreadsheet with the song titles, and links.

Free music download, no questions asked (well email address required, maybe), featuring these cover mixes:

1. Telephone – Lady Gaga
2. In My Head – Jason Derulo
3. Revolver – Madonna
4. Empire State of Mind – Jay Z Feat. Alicia Keys
5. Hard – Rihanna
6. Bulletproof – La Roux
7. Hey Soul Sister – Train
8. Blah Blah Blah – Ke$ha
9. According To You – Orianthi
10. Whataya Want From Me – Adam Lambert
11. Russian Roulette – Rihanna
12. Need You Now - Lady Antebellum

Simply go to this page and enter your email address (email is not verified, so use any), or use this direct link (92.5 MB).

Update: Apparently, Vol 1. is still available at this direct link.

The award winning Portal game is now free on Steam until the 24th of May. All you need is the free Steam application and then you’ll be able to download and install the game at absolutely no cost.

Download Portal for free here

Major game companies don’t hesitate to charge an arm and a leg for new releases, with most launching around $60 these days. You may not be aware but there is quite a few older commercial titles freely available, just waiting to be downloaded. Dozens of old school favorites like Doom, GTA, Command & Conquer, Fallout, etc. can be had totally free.

Here is a few of the most popular games:

• Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun
• Doom
• Fallout
• GTA & GTA 2
• The Elder Scrolls: Arena, Daggerfall
• F.E.A.R. Combat

See the whole list here.

GameRadar has picked out 30 of the best commercial games that can now be played for free. Titles include classics such as Battle Chess, BattleForge, the original Fallout, Beneath a Steel Sky, Defender of the Crown, Grand Theft Auto 1 and 2, R-Type and more …

Download these free games here

GameHouse is celebrating their 10,000’s follower on Twitter by giving away three games for free. The games, Little Shop of Treasures, 4 Elements and Super Bounce Out, are available free to download for Windows users. Mac users can also get the games free, but they have to tweet @gamehouse to receive a Mac compatible coupon.

Download the free games

http://usa.kaspersky.com/shakeitup/

Update: Deal only available to people who attended Windows 7 launch party, so not publicly available.

Zone Alarm Pro will be free for all for 24 hours only, starting October 13, 2009. ZoneAlarm Pro is an advanced software firewall system that usually retails for $39.95, but will be given away for free for one day only.

The sales page can be found here.

Giveaway of the Day and Womble are giving you the chance to download Womble’s MPEG Video Wizard DVD for free for the next 24 hours only. The software is valued at $49, and includes DVD authoring features and AC3 encoding, on top of the MPEG editing features of MPEG Video Wizard (guide here – read about how to use MVW and how to perform certain functions like automatic detection and removal of commercial breaks).

The software is highly recommended by our forum members and it gives you frame accurate MPEG-1/2 editing without the need for re-encoding, and is a must for anyone serious about producing their own DVDs.

Here’s the link:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mpeg-video-wizard-dvd/