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Welcome to Freeware Friday, a weekly column showcasing excellent games that you can play free of charge!

Valve's Team Fortress 2, while long in coming, was a masterpiece unlike any other multiplayer game on the market at the time. Its continued success and loyal fanbase have prompted the developers to release a slew of patches adding new content to the game, with the latest being the Scout update. However, what if it was a NES game, not a PC game? Well, the result would be Gang Garrison 2. While we have talked about Gang Garrison 2 before on Big Download, it has been continually worked on. A feature-complete release, version 2.0, was released recently, and any fan of action games or multiplayer shooters has got to give it a try.

Welcome to the Indie Showcase, a semi-regular column on Big Download that takes a look at games we haven't covered on the site that we really think you should play.

Just recently, TIGSource held and finished a Bootleg Demakes competition on their forums. The goal? Make a game that is a backwards version of a recently released game, such as Gears of War on the Atari 2600. Not only that, but make it like an old Chinese bootleg, with glitches, silly names, and older systems! The community showed up in force, offering up a whopping 68 entries for voting. Because of the sheer volume of entries, we haven't decided on our picks for Indiedaze yet. But here's some of the games we think you should take notice of!