Looking out for cheapskates or just those of us with tighter wallets this year, 1UP's Scott Sharkey put up a selection of 101 free games to play this year spread across genres like adventure, strategy, RPGs and more.

There are a couple of 2009 Independent Games Festival finalists on the list -- Coil and You Have to Burn the Rope.

But there's also many recent releases, like addictive tower defense game Gemcraft Chapter 0, and other PC/Flash titles from the past year that you might have been meaning to play but just haven't gotten around to, such as Barkley Shut Up And Jam Gaiden and The Sewer Goblet - The Wu-Tang Clan and the Wu-Tang Baby.

That last title reminds me that there really aren't enough non-fighting games out there featuring the Wu-Tang Clan. The symbol is coming back!