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Mail to [email protected] for any further request. “A REAL-TIME STRATEGY EXPERIENCE LIKE NONE BEFORE” - PC GAMER Mail to [email protected] for any further request. Contents Alternatively, you could just skim like everybody else DEPARTMENTS 16 Editorial Our editor-in-chief loves the smell of “free” in the morning. 18 Letters Do you have any idea how it makes us feel inside when you talk to us this way? 22 Start We love you. No, really. Like, “love” love. Don’t believe us? Let us count the ways: previews of COVER STORY Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, 64 The Crossing Left 4 Dead,Savage 2,Titan Quest: Immortal Throne, and Supreme Commander. See? You Arkane Studios and Valve are teaming up to make the first truly revolutionary should, like, totally date us now. shooter of the 21st century, set in an alternate-universe Paris, France. We sent Also: Game writers speak out on editor Shawn Elliott to the scene for this exclusive world premiere. the sorry state of game writing. 22 36 ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS SUPREME COMMANDER 52 The Freeloader Presents: 101 Free Games Our resident penny-pincher clues you in on 101 games that won’t cost you a single dime. And we didn’t pay him 40 46 a single dime to write it! PLAY FOR PAY TITAN QUEST: IMMORTAL THRONE 12 •GAMES FOR WINDOWS: THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE