Back when Digital Extremes were largely known for collaborating with Epic Games on the Unreal Tournament series, they

IGN can exclusively reveal that Dark Sector, the 2008 third-person shooter from Warframe developer Digital Extremes, is now free on Steam for the next 72 hours in celebration of the upcoming free Warframe: 1999 expansion that is set to be released in December 2024.

Digital Extremes is giving you the chance to snag their game, Dark Sector, totally free until the end of the month on Steam

It may be over a decade old, but it's worth adding third-person action/shooter game Dark Sector to your Steam account for free while you can.

The upcoming Warframe 1999 expansion is heavily inspired by Cold War shooter Dark Sector, and Digital Extremes is giving it away for free.

Dark Sector, the third-person shooter that Digital Extremes launched for Windows PCs in 2009, is available to claim for free on Steam until November 30 at 9:00 a.m., according to a new promo that can currently be found on the game's Steam page.

Obviously Warframe is the flagship title in the Digital Extremes library. The looter-shooter 's mass success and continued appeal is impossible to deny. As Warframe: 1999 inches closer, the game just continues to try new things (some that don't always work out) and is still on my personal list of F2P games just done right.

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Dark Sector thrusts players into the role of an elite black-ops agent sent on a dangerous mission into a decaying Eastern European city that hides a deadly Cold War secret.

Dark Sector laid the groundwork for what would eventually become one of today's biggest and most enduring multiplayer shooters.