So. You've been dying to play a massive multi-player online role playing game, but haven't found the motivation to shell out 50 bucks to try it? A couple of solutions here. An old classic, Anarchy Online, is giving away free memberships to their basic program, now until Jan 15. You'll get to play for free for a year. All you need to do is download the program (must have bit torrent installed) and set up an account. None of the expansion packs are offered, but I played the first installment back in the day and enjoyed it immensely. For a futuristic science fiction universe that is immensely popular in europe, Anarchy Online can't be beat. (especially not at this price)

For real gluttons, you can get the free 10 day trial of Star Wars: Jump to Lightspeed by Lucas Arts and Sony. I've wanted to check this one out, just for the character creation tool. Had I been sony when this game launched, I would have released the character Generation tool alone as a demo. But, from some accounts, the character Generation is perhaps the best part of this game. If I had a computer that would work the game, I'd definitely check this one out, although it probably means two solid nights of downloading all the client software from Fileplanet first.