Minecraft
The the innernets have been blowing up about this indie game Mincraft for quite a while now. Even Penny Arcade is getting in on the action this week (yeah, I don’t get it either). I still haven’t had a chance to actually play it, but videos keep getting posted to reddit. Videos like where this guy accidentally sets fire to his house or where this guy finds a dungeon and starts a zombie dance party. I still don’t fully understand the object, if there even is one, but having a persistent open world in which to make and build things seems kinda fun.
Anyway, the game’s free for the weekend because his server went down. You can get it at minecraft.net and I think you just log in with a blank user and pass. Since the game is still in Alpha, I think you can actually buy it for $5 or $10 or something like that, depending on the exchange rate. If enough of you actually have interest in this, I think I’ll volunteer my bandwidth to run a little private server where we can all play.