Raid and Raid HD, the mobile versions of id’s upcoming shooter, are available for free for one week only. Its a nice shooter, but not for kids.

StumbleUpon, the popular web content discovery system, has released an update for their iOS app, specifically the iPad version. It may be the best use case for StumbleUpon we have ever found.

Team Fortress 2 is now free.

Portal 2 is a great physics-bending game that is a perfect successor to the original Portal by Valve. The first DLC pack for Portal 2 is scheduled to be free. This first DLC pack for Portal 2 will have more puzzles and modes for players to muck around with their Portal guns.

For most users backup isn’t a top priority, so they often forget to create regular scheduled backups, in case the worst happens. 4 free online backup services make it easy. You have no excuses.

GIRP is an incredibly addictive but amazingly tough flash game. GIRP comes from the maker of QWOP and is a loose spiritual successor to it. Read this post to find out what GIRP is all about!

Test Drive Unlimited 2 had a terrible release. The game had a buggy load screen and some awful save game corruption. To apologize, Test Drive Unlimited 2′s developer Eden Games has announced that the next downloadable content for the game will be free.

Wicked Interactive and Gamers Outreach have come together to support the Dallas Veteran’s Hospital with their charitable program. This is the first time that registration for a free-to-play MMO may help in charity. Read on to find out more.

Magicka is a pretty hilarious hack n’ spell game by Swedish studio, Arrowhead Studios. The game enjoyed success with its unique spell-combination feature and general geeky references and humour. Now Magicka is being released on a retail box in addition to its downloadable form, and its soundtrack has been released for free at its website. Do check it out!

All Points Bulletin is going to get a new lease on life. The ill-fated MMO was bought and converted to the free-to-play model by GamersFirst. Renamed APB: Reloaded, the game has already received 100K registrants for its beta event. Where APB: Reloaded will go from here is anybody’s guess.

When People Can Fly studios released their First Person Shooter (FPS) parody Duty Calls (directly mocking the Call of Duty series), they just wanted it to be a satirical view on the “realistic” FPS genre and an anti-demo for their game Bulletstorm. Basically, what they were saying is that “our game, Bulletstorm, is not this game. It is definitely everything but this game. Look at this game. This game is stupid. You know which game we are talking about, right? Yes, that game.”, more or less.

You can easily create a new drive on your PC or laptop using built in tools for Vista and 7. It’s very handy to have and may save you lots of time and trouble.

RunKeeper is a very popular sports tracking application available for the iOS as well as the Android platform. The app has a free as well as a paid version ($9.99). Now, the company behind RunKeeper – FitnessKeeper – has decided to make RunKeeper Pro available as a free download throughout the month of January.

If you have a portable media player, try out MacX DVD to iPod Ripper. This program is free only for a limited time, and makes it easy to convert a DVD to MP4.

People often write me to ask me for recommendations on free software. Sometimes, I get the answer from my friends. Check out this video converter that burns DVDs.