Yes piracy is highly illegal, not to mention the method you are using is even more dodgy. You are downloading stuff from people assuming it's all "legit" and happily giving out your IP to anybody...

Of course they are, and they will add a nice large price tag to it no doubt.

http://www.digipen.edu/main/Webcast

Check that out for some free tutorials.

Not to sound harsh but if you are planning this as a career you need to be the dogs do-das. Unless you are very...

Don't Valve check for scripts anyway? so even if you were provided with one you would be easily caught and banned from just about every CS:S server excluding the poorly run dodgy ones. And they get...

You could also add this video webcast by Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnvideodev.mspx

It has tutorials and all the source code to create a 2D and 3D game. Very good...