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After closing down the Aces Studio which came up with its long running Microsoft Flight Simulator series, the company has presented the all-new Microsoft Flight, which is now a free-to-play simulator that will be available for download this spring.
While a variety of flight games were released over the years, Micros... |
5 January 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Rocksteady Studios, after deploying a large array of premium skins for Batman: Arkham City, has just confirmed that it’s released a free one, in the form of the Batman Incorporated outfit, alongside a cheat code that will allow you to use the alternate skin right from the start of the game.Batman: Arkham City h... |
21 December 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Nintendo 3DS Ambassadors, aka those who bought the handheld platform at full price, will receive today 10 free Game Boy Advance titles, which were promised by the Japanese company after the August price cut.Seeing as how the 3DS wasn’t the huge success Nintendo had hoped for, the company started taking safety p... |
16 December 2011
05:00 GMT |
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SpaceChem, a puzzle game produced by Zachtronics Industries that combines the logic of computer programming with the scientific domain of chemistry, is now free to use in schools. Developers of SpaceChem, Zachtronics Industries, have announced that their game is now available for free, just for schools, until the end... |
5 December 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Developer Arrowhead Games and publisher Paradox Interactive have announced that their free form magic powered action adventure, Magicka, will be free to play over the weekend for all those who installed the Steam digital distribution service from Valve.Also those who install the game and like the experience have the ... |
18 November 2011
03:29 GMT |
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Microsoft is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its original Xbox console and has expanded its party efforts to all of its Xbox 360 owners by offering them a free prop for their Avatars, which includes fireworks, confetti and ribbons.10 years have passed since the launch of the first Xbox and, since then, we've... |
16 November 2011
03:54 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware developer Sony has announced that those who are interested in moving their UMD and made for PlayStation Portable video games to the new Vita platform will have to pay, using a new service called the UMD Passport.The new initiative will be launched on December 6, which means that play... |
14 November 2011
17:41 GMT |
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A lot happened at Blizzcon this year and most of the talk has been focused around the Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft, mostly the pretty radical ways in which it will change the MMO, and around Starcraft II, mostly the new units and how the mod oriented Marketplace will work.But the one piece of new... |
5 November 2011
07:11 GMT |
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THQ and Relic Entertainment have made good on their word and released the cooperative Exterminatus multiplayer mode for their recent Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine third person shooter/brawler, for free, on the PC and PlayStation 3 platforms, while the Xbox 360 will also receive it soon enough.Space Marine impressed ... |
26 October 2011
05:47 GMT |
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Valve has shared some extremely interesting statistics about free-to-play games, confirming that the recent transformation of its popular Team Fortress 2 online shooter into a free-to-play title generated a massive increase in its player count, and a lot of these gamers even started spending money in the title.Valve&... |
26 October 2011
04:01 GMT |
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City of Heroes Freedom, the new free-to-play strategy employed by the City of Heroes online title, is focusing on existing players, while catering to new gamers that can now experience it without having to pay for a monthly subscription.NCsoft, together with Cryptic Studios, announced earlier this year that its long ... |
17 October 2011
05:28 GMT |
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UPDATE: The winner have been chosen, so scroll on down to see if you're among the lucky guys and gals.Seeing as how our colleagues at the Windows section of Softpedia have been giving out codes for various software, we here at the Games department have decided to start our own thing by sharing a few codes f... |
3 September 2011
07:01 GMT |
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Nintendo has unleashed the first batch of free games for its 3DS Ambassadors, meaning people who bought its recently released Nintendo 3DS handheld at full price, before the last month's price cut went into effect.
Nintendo's 3DS wasn't exactly the success the company had hoped, with early sales fig... |
1 September 2011
02:35 GMT |
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Nintendo has officially revealed the ten free games from the Nintendo Entertainment System that will arrive tomorrow for Nintendo 3DS Ambassadors, meaning those that bought the handheld platform at full price before the price cut for it was announced at the beginning of the month.
Nintendo's 3DS arrived earli... |
31 August 2011
05:20 GMT |
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Red Dead Redemption is set to receive a batch of free downloadable content in September, with Rockstar, its developer and publisher, announcing that the game, launched back in 2010, will see some new things be released for it, completely free.
Red Dead Redemption was released over a year ago, but the open-world We... |
28 July 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed for the PC platform will see the downloadable content released for consoles a few month ago finally appear for it and, what's more, the packs will be completely free.Electronic Arts' Need for Speed franchise has seen quite a few high-quality releases in the last year, and S... |
29 June 2011
04:15 GMT |
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With the PlayStation Network now back up and working, apparently with improved security measures that should prevent any attacks like those of April 20 from taking place again, and Sony is now facing the task of making sure that the security issues and communications problems it has since had do not lead to an exodus... |
28 May 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and software giant Microsoft has announced that those students who satisfy a set of conditions and purchase a Windows 7-powered PC that is worth more than 699 dollars will be able to get a free Xbox 360 S home gaming console with a 4GB hard drive.
The console is now worth about 200 do... |
20 May 2011
03:28 GMT |
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The first piece of downloadable content for Portal 2 will bring lots of new things for the recently launched game including new levels, leaderboards and more.
Portal 2 has been released for almost two weeks now, and already Valve has announced that it will be releasing the "Portal 2 DLC #1" pack later this year.
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2 May 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Electronic Arts kicked off a brand new promotion for the upcoming Bulletstorm, as players that pre-order the game using the company's online store will get a free downloadable copy of Shank.
Bulletstorm is one of the few all-new titles to appear at the beginning of the year, so the companies behind it, EA, it... |
8 February 2011
03:40 GMT |
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For the last couple of years, cable operators have tried to bundle more services than ever in their set-top boxes, but few of them actually managed to do so, France's Free ISP being one of the success stories if we are to take a look at their Freebox v6 Revolution STB that comes stuffed full of features.
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14 December 2010
10:09 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware maker Microsoft has announced that it is renaming the Xbox Live Silver service into Xbox Live Free, while keeping the same set of features that includes demo downloads, add on buying and customizable Avatars.Graeme Boyd, who is the community manager for the European Xbox division, wa... |
21 October 2010
03:46 GMT |
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These last years, Microsoft has released several free eBooks and guides, for the home-users, students, teachers and IT Administrators, so that they could have the necessary tools to get more from their computers.Most of the free releases are part of the In the Classroom Series, and allow children as well as teachers ... |
18 September 2010
05:23 GMT |
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Recently, mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has made one of its Android-based devices available for purchase for free upon the signing of a two-year contract agreement, namely the Motorola DEVOUR with MOTOBLUR. The full retail price for this device was set at $479.99, while the original contract price tag was $1... |
15 September 2010
12:41 GMT |
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The head of the Treyarch studio, who is working on the Activision published Call of Duty: Black Ops, has said that he is not thinking about attaching a price to the multiplayer experience and that his team aims to make the game compelling enough for player to hold on to it even after they finish the single player, ac... |
14 September 2010
16:21 GMT |
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The Symbian Foundation, together with Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., a member of the foundation and one of the most renowned text imaging-solution providers, has recently announced the official launch of the first open source font available for the Symbian platform. Monotype Yuppy, also known as the MYuppy Chin... |
10 June 2010
09:43 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment of America has announced two initiatives that are set to help the sales of both the PlayStation Portable handheld in its traditional configuration and the Go version, which lacks a UMD drive and gets all its content via digital distribution. A new line of videogames, featuring the label &l... |
2 June 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Neptune's Pride is a perfect example of how real time strategy gaming can evolve and expand to include ever increasing audiences. It's very simple to understand and complicated to play at the same time in part because of the way it stretches over quite a long time those well encapsulated gameplay events tha... |
3 May 2010
16:51 GMT |
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Celebrating the French registrar’s tenth anniversary, the company is giving away 55,000 promotional codes in the following ten days. These codes can be employed by old or new clients and will allow users to acquire domain names for free from Gandi and some of their partners.Gandi will start offering codes at 14... |
1 March 2010
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BioWare launched its Mass Effect 2 some three weeks ago, and while the developer is hard at work with the Expansion for Dragon Age: Origins, that doesn't mean that it forgot its plans for ME2 downloadable content. Aside from all the preorder and retailer-exclusive bonuses, like the extra companion Zaeed Massani ... |
9 February 2010
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Facebook and McAfee announced on January 13, 2009 a partnership through which over 350 million Facebook users will benefit at no cost of a free six-month subscription to McAfee's Internet Security Suite security software. After this six-month period, Facebook users will have the possibility to extend their licen... |
13 January 2010
10:40 GMT |
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Valve has announced that those players who only have a Silver Xbox Live membership will be able to take part in multiplayer matches of Left 4 Dead 2, the zombie shooter created by the company, beginning with 5 PM GMT on Friday, January 15 and until the same hour on Sunday, January 18.Because of the cooperative nature... |
12 January 2010
15:41 GMT |
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Free games sound like a whole lot of fun, but usually they're not. While there are a lot of free online titles, the fact that they don't have a proper budget and lack the necessary investments is all but too obvious once you log in and start playing. They may feature some of the big, core elements of the bi... |
17 December 2009
03:23 GMT |
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The people at Agile Web Solutions have announced that 1Password Pro for iPhone and iPod touch is now free, as a way to thank all their “wonderful users” out there and to celebrate the release of 1Password 3 for Mac. As fans of the password manager should know, the desktop version is fresh out of its lates... |
26 November 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Just three weeks have passed since Forza 3 was released, but it already seems like that was years ago. The racing sim was completely outshone by recent releases such as Borderlands, Dragon Age: Origins, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2. But Microsoft hasn't forgotten about its game just ... |
18 November 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Google is getting in the holiday spirit and has announced it's offering free Wi-Fi to all travelers in some 47 airports in the US. Seeing that these hotspots usually don't come cheap and adding the fact that many people spend more time in the terminals than in the actual flights especially during the busy s... |
10 November 2009
08:51 GMT |
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There are a lot of trends these days in the video game industry, with one of the most interesting ones being free-to-play titles, which are endorsed by ads and/or microtransactions. Electronic Arts is the most recent company to try this model, in its latest Battlefield Heroes downloadable game. The title, which has ... |
16 July 2009
02:25 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is one of the most popular shooters released last year, despite being a brand new Intellectual Property. It won over a lot of fans thanks to its solid multiplayer features and the great matchmaking system guaranteed by Valve's Steam service. Even though it experienced a lot of big sales in the holid... |
30 April 2009
16:01 GMT |
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As technology in consoles and PCs has progressed, it has allowed developers to create brand new things, like destructible environments, in order to make the whole experience of playing a video game much more realistic. But while a lot of titles boast such things, no series has made it that much a part of its gamepl... |
24 April 2009
02:20 GMT |
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Fighting games have been around for quite some time, dominating the early days of arcades, times when titles such as Mortal Kombat or Tekken gained the huge number of fans they have today. But no other fighting franchise can boast the worldwide appeal that Capcom's Street Fighter series has won.Not only has it r... |
21 April 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Microsoft is announcing that, in order to celebrate the release of the Lost and Damned downloadable content for Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV, it is planning to make the Xbox Live multiplayer services, which are usually tied to a paid Gold account, free for five days.The promotion is set to begin on February 17... |
11 February 2009
06:12 GMT |
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Yazsoft has announced its ultimate Yazsoft giveaway for the year, making it their biggest one yet, according to an official report. From Dec 01 to Dec 24, 2008, Yazsoft is giving you the chance to win 1 of the 4 Grand packages, with no purchase being required. In light of the holidays, Yazsoft is offering ShareTool a... |
5 December 2008
09:16 GMT |
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What would you say if I were to tell that the default apps on your newly bought OS X system have free alternatives out there that, sometimes, are actually better? Yes, there are developers that can do a (slightly) better job than Apple when it comes to performing certain tasks on OS X, be it watching a movie, re... |
24 November 2008
12:01 GMT |
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Crysis Wars is the standalone multiplayer mode which came out with the launch of Crysis: Warhead. The sequel to one of the most anticipated FPS (First Person Shooter) games of last year, Crysis, it offered a pretty decent gaming experience. Now, CryTek, the developers behind these titles, have just announced that th... |
6 October 2008
16:01 GMT |
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Michael Moore, director of “Fahrenheit 9/11,” has decided to put up for download his latest documentary. “Slacker Uprising,” his most recent film, will be available as of September 23 for every US or Canadian resident. Moore explains that the two reasons that determined him to waive his copyri... |
5 September 2008
03:20 GMT |
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Probably preparing for the arrival of Tocco and HTC Dream, T-Mobile USA has decided to offer all of its current Samsung mobile phones for free. According to Cell Phone Signal, this promotional offer starts on September 3 and will end on October 14, allowing users to get, for free, any of the 11 Samsung handsets that ... |
25 August 2008
09:21 GMT |
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Any computer running Windows needs a bit of maintenance every now and then, so let's take a ride into the world of freeware system utilities: startup managers, system information and other useful file management utilities. Most computer newbies don't know that a lot of applications start when they innocentl... |
6 June 2008
13:46 GMT |
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In part III of our freeware saga, we'll take a ride straight into the Internet world and take a look at some of your free software alternatives. In part I, we've talked a bit about this subject, when reviewing our choices regarding browsers and antispyware programs. Now it's time to dig a little deeper... |
4 June 2008
17:11 GMT |
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We have already told you about NASA's desire to create an educational MMO for youngsters who want to learn more about space - back then, NASA said it had $3 million for the project, but things have changed a little bit and the project seems further away from becoming reality. Let's see the whole story.Last ... |
24 April 2008
12:06 GMT |
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The most anticipated PC game of the year, Spore, is going to finally hit the market early September as everybody knows already. However, most of us would simply like to fast forward time to September in order to just play the game and create hundreds of creatures. But, even though Spore will allow us to play God, we ... |
22 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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