Free Games at Caiman

If you want to download completely free games made by amateur developers, check out this site. You don't even have to install the games if you don't want to & some of them are really good, like the Mario Kart game which appears to have been written in Dark BASIC.

Dark GDK Download

You can get Visual C++ Express Edition, DirectX SDK & the Dark GDK, to start creating your own games.