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With an ongoing recession and the fear of "growing up" looming over everyone's heads, here are three great ways to stretch your gaming dollar.

I associate F2P with half-assed, graphically challenged boutique games littered with bugs and ads. Due to these prejudices, I approached League of Legends with a bit of trepidation – but its combination of strategic depth and devilishly addicting, competitive team-based gameplay kept me logging in on a nearly daily basis.