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Download Free Full TrackMania Nation Forever Here

We would dare to name TrackMania Nations Forever the best online racing game available at the moment on the market. Yes, you've read it right - AVAILABLE! The completely free game, the sequel to the highly acclaimed TrackMania Nations, has been finally launched and you can start downloading it right now followin...

16 April 2008
19:31 GMT

123play, New Mobile Gaming Portal

For those (many of you) who like online mobile games, a new portal that plans to offer lots of fun moments is launched: 123play. Coming with a really attractive "don't pay, just play" offer, 123play hosts free, but ad-supported games from well-known publishers like THQ Wireless, Digital Chocolate, RealArcade, In...

15 April 2008
02:20 GMT

Battlefield: Bad Company Weapons Will Be Free after All

Electronic Arts' controversial decision to offer five Battlefield: Bad Company weapons as purchasable content (therefore, not free or part of the core game) was met with an angry reaction from the fans. Usually, this kind of behavior means absolutely nothing to game developers since, in the end, most of the prot...

10 April 2008
17:06 GMT

Free Mobile Games On Mippin. Hundreds of Them

The popular mobile portal Mippin offers, starting yesterday, a wide range of free mobile games to its users. In collaboration with Greystripe, a leading ad-supported games distributor, Refresh Mobile, the company that owns Mippin, will provide access to more than 800 mobile titles. For the moment there are 200 ga...

10 April 2008
09:12 GMT

Softpedia Goes Freeware Only - Part II: Multimedia

This article is a follow-up to a 'tutorial' I wrote a while back about freeware applications. So it's time again to leave your wallet aside and start browsing through our small collection of freeware programs. If in my last article I had mentioned some utilities that might have needed experienced-user ...

8 April 2008
03:06 GMT

GTA IV Is Taking a Shot at Selling Music

One of the most distinctive features of the GTA series of games, apart from the wide range of anti-social or downright psychopathic behavior it allows the player to engage in, is that the games featured a well developed soundtrack, complete with a variety of genres all accessible from the radios found inside each and...

1 April 2008
02:37 GMT

Sierra Offers World in Conflict Free for Two Weeks

The "Best Strategy Game of 2007" award winner World in Conflict is one step closer to your personal computer if you don't own the game already, since Sierra Entertainment in now offering a completely free of charge two-weeks trial for the game. Yes, it is no mistake: not 60 minutes, not 3 uses, but a full, 14 da...

14 March 2008
05:25 GMT

Free Palm Centro Smartphones For All of Us

Free phones combined with various data plans from mobile operators are being offered all the time, but generally these handsets only pack basic features. Now, we couldn't possibly say that Palm Centro is a highly evolved device, but it's neither a low-end handset, so the fact that it is now available for fr...

11 March 2008
10:39 GMT

Valve Hopes Downloadable Content Will Remain Free

The most recent addition to the map load out for Team Fortress 2 on the PC is Badlands and more maps are on the way. Recently, Doug Lombardi, who is vice-president of marketing at Valve, has said that the map packs for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 versions of the game are not far away. But when questioned on wh...

4 March 2008
04:35 GMT

Free iPhone or iPod Touch For Every Freshman

Every once in a while, certain individuals tend to think about how much they would get paid if they were to do something worth paying for. If you ever thought about such things, I'm pretty sure you have never even imagined that one of those "worth paying for" things you could do is to attend an University. No it...

28 February 2008
02:05 GMT

Free iPhones For the Disciples of Christ

What would one do to get a free iPhone? A lot of things, I'm sure. Well, starting the fall of 2008, all you have to do is become a student of the Abilene Christian University (ACU), a private university from Texas, affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The university will provide free iPhones and free iPod Tou...

27 February 2008
03:16 GMT

Quake Zero Becomes Quake Live, Free

Following the "trend" of free to play, online high budget shooters like Battlefield Heroes, Quake Live (previously known as Quake Zero) promises to bring the ultimate Quake Arena experience to all the fans, for free, together with the company of IGA Worldwide. Having in mind that there are already two hit games optin...

20 February 2008
05:02 GMT

Jailbroken iPhone, iPod Touch Owners Get Unlimited Calls in France

Iliad, a French Internet provider, has just announced that users of jailbroken iPhones that are subscribers to its Free brand will be able to make unlimited calls to French land-line numbers. Those who wish to benefit from the offer will need to install a SIP-VoIP application developed by Touchmods, called Siphon, on...

8 February 2008
09:12 GMT

Blueface and Fring Offer Free Mobile Phone Service

Blueface, a leading VoIP phone service provider, just announced the launch of the first free mobile phone service for Ireland. The new service also offers consumers a mobile number that can be called at landline tariffs, reducing the cost of staying close to family, friends or colleagues via mobile conversations. Fo...

5 February 2008
03:21 GMT

Valve Offers Steamworks for Free

First of all, don't get too excited yet: it's not a free game, nor something that you should download right away and have fun with. But, in the long run, it is something that will most likely bring a lot of benefits to the game world: Steamworks is a complete suite of publishing and development tools rangin...

30 January 2008
03:44 GMT

Buy a Blackberry Smartphone and Get Other Four For Free

Bell Mobility, a leading Canadian mobile operator, launched a new offer that gives subscribers the chance to buy a Blackberry handset and get other 4 for free. Customers who buy a BlackBerry 8830 World Edition or a BlackBerry Pearl 8130 will also receive other four BlackBerry 8703e handsets. The offer is available ...

28 January 2008
04:59 GMT

Yahoo! to Give Free Music Online!

Talks have been held in the direction of allowing Yahoo! to offer DRM-free music for free or in exchange for a small fee, as a part of a service that's self-supporting. Although in the early stages, the discussions were pretty straightforward about what the Sunnyvale-based company wanted, a couple of record comp...

24 January 2008
18:31 GMT

Free Wi-Fi Internet Connectivity From AT&T

AT&T, the largest US mobile operator, announced yesterday that it will offer free and unlimited access to its nationwide Wi-Fi network for more than 10 million broadband subscribers. The offer will be available from the beginning of 2009, to both new and existing customers who subscribe to any of the carrier's ...

24 January 2008
04:06 GMT

Playyoo Launches Its Free Mobile Gaming Platform

Playyoo Limited, a UK-based company, officially announced the release of its public beta website, Playyoo, that works as a social networking platform, allowing users all over the world to create, share and download casual mobile games. The website offers mobile users free and quick access to Adobe Flash Lite games, b...

23 January 2008
11:47 GMT

Legend: Legacy of the Dragons Goes Live

We're living in a fully expanding MMO era, a free MMO era, to be more specific. Legend: Legacy of the Dragons is the latest title to join the family and it comes from Waygate Publishing, a London based company specializing in the operation of Eastern European online games for the Western market. If you think thi...

21 January 2008
06:00 GMT

Free MMORPG Mabinogi Getting Ready for an US Release

Nexon America has announced the release date of Mabinogi, a free massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG). The game will be available to play starting this summer, but those who can't wait that long can try their luck and subscribe to take part in the closed beta, scheduled to start on the 30th of...

17 January 2008
05:52 GMT

FlipMail Brings Free Email to Any Mobile Phone

TeleFlip, a US-based Internet and telecoms company, announced that this year's holidays bring email and cell phones closer than ever with the advanced service called flipMail. The service enables mobile users to send and receive emails from cell phones, by converting the emails from and into text messages. With ...

20 December 2007
08:49 GMT

Nokia Brings Hollywood to Your Mobile Phone

Nokia announced the availability of its new video streaming service - Medeo, the next episode of mobile entertainment. The service is especially designed for Nokia handsets and delivers video and media content directly from Hollywood, everyday. Wanna know what Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been doing lately, or m...

12 December 2007
02:51 GMT

Free Christmas Mobile Content from AT&T

Good Christmas news for AT&T's subscribers: the largest mobile operator in the US announced a series of holiday promotions that allows its customers to receive free ring tones, answer tones and a free mobile game. To get the free content, any AT&T customer can send an SMS with the word "gift" to the 7230 number ...

30 November 2007
10:51 GMT

Thousands of Free Gamerpoints Now Available Through Easy As Pie Achievements

I guess that you've pretty much figured what's all the fuss about, since every major Xbox 360 fan knows by now that the Avatar: The Burning Earth title allows gamers to score 1000 gamerpoints in just one minute. As if it weren't enough, the points will be earned by pressing one single button. Now we s...

20 November 2007
16:58 GMT

Free Xbox Live Gold Membership Thanks to Xtival 07

Microsoft have just announced that we're all going to be invited to a major Xbox 360 event called Xtival '07. It's an online event that takes place between November 23 and November 26 and it will be available on your console for free bringing you tons of exclusive demos, downloads, competitions and al...

1 November 2007
07:28 GMT

Download the Free Guitar Hero 3 Xbox 360 Demo Here!

Big thumbs up for Neversoft and their original initiative! All of you rockin' gamers out there have been waiting for Guitar Hero III more than you've waited for a Metallica concert and finally here it is, in its demo version. We're pleased to let you know that you can download the Xbox 360 Guitar Hero...

19 October 2007
03:56 GMT

Free New Eurochocolate PS3 Consoles Surface in Italy

Finally "Go eat a PS3!" does not sound like an insult or an impossible task anymore thanks to the craftsmen at the Eurochocolate Festival in Perugia, Italy. They've created a full scale set of PS3 consoles made out of chocolate plus giant SIXAXIS controllers. We were surprised to find out that a couple of choco...

16 October 2007
11:08 GMT

Free Wi-Fi in McDonald's Restaurants in the UK

McDonald's has just decided to do a great favor to all those burger-loving customers that drive their profits sky high. They will provide from now on free wireless Internet access in its more than 1,000 restaurants across the UK.It looks like McDonald's would do just about anything to keep their customers i...

8 October 2007
13:58 GMT

Do You Have Penetration Problems?

A lot of people are facing penetration problems nowadays and even though many refuse to admit it, everyone who has a connection to the Internet has had this issue at least once. The problem is that normal users can't always tell if their security has been breached or if they are part of a vulnerable network. Sur...

8 October 2007
04:40 GMT

Free Toyota Yaris Game on the Xbox 360

We've seen in-game commercials, hot Halo 3 advertising campaigns, but this may be the first time that a great company advertises its product on the Xbox 360 with the aid of a specially designed game. You'll drive a new Toyota Yaris in the title that will be made available over the Xbox Live today. Keep in...

8 October 2007
03:41 GMT

Free Mobile Phone Calls for Young People, through Blyk

Remember all the things that you have received until now for free, but every time you were asked in return to support some advertisements? Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) will rent airtime from France Telecom's Orange and provide subscribers with free calls in exchange for their agreeing to receive ads on...

25 September 2007
04:12 GMT

SEGA Rally Demo Released!

Log on to Xbox Live Marketplace right this instant 'cause the free demo of SEGA Rally is up for grabs as of now! The demo features two quick race tracks: the steep sided Canyon and the downright dirty Tropical track. Two great tracks should go nice with two great cars, right? Right. The two cars you'll be a...

17 September 2007
08:05 GMT

Free MMO Game on the PS3 Console - Angel Love Online

Before you start with the questions, keep in mind that this is no Final Fantasy XI or World or Warcraft, as it's one of those cute titles that usually appeal to a younger audience or the feminine public. We'll see Angel Love Online being released this December for the PS3 and you'll be glad to find ou...

17 September 2007
04:27 GMT

Award-Winning Mobile Games for Free

Greystripe, the leading distributor of ad-supported mobile games and applications and the creator of the first mobile in-game advertising network, will contribute to delivering seven major titles for the first time, all free of any charge. This will be possible as a result of the partnership that Greystripe has signe...

11 September 2007
08:58 GMT

NBA LIVE '08 FREE Demo of up XBL Marketplace!

Basketball fans should start up their 360s just about now as Microsoft has just made available a playable demo of NBA LIVE 08 up on the service. The demo of course is free, but you won't have many teams to choose from. The demo of NBA LIVE 08 features just two playable teams: the Cleveland Cavaliers and the San ...

7 September 2007
03:39 GMT

Helio: That's Enough! No More Fees for YouTube!

The story so far: Helio, a mobile carrier that provides mobile access to several social websites, allowed its consumers to access Google's online video sharing service YouTube for a monthly fee of $5.99. The access was based on a special application that enabled the users to access the clips straight from their ...

4 July 2007
04:10 GMT

How to Download ANYTHING for FREE Using Google and Rapidshare!

Rapidshare is one of the most useful Internet websites because it allows users to upload anything and share it with friends or anybody else. At this time, Rapidshare has a huge database of files as a considerable number of users connected to it to upload music, pictures, movies and even larger files such as games or ...

3 June 2007
08:06 GMT

Free Will Found in Fruit Flies

It seems that even microscopical brains have free will. Or at least a behavior that may hint at it, as in the case of the minute fruit fly, new findings could explain the nature and evolution of free will in humans.If researches could develop robots with free will, it "may lead to more realistic and probably even mor...

16 May 2007
03:53 GMT

Kino Review

If you thought there is no powerful video editor for Linux, think again. Kino hasn't ceased to impress a lot of people from its first release up until now. And reaching the 1.0 final version, Kino has shaped up to be a great free and open-source alternative to various (proprietary or not) programs such as Micros...

13 March 2007
06:58 GMT

Apple Saved 400 Million $ with iPhone's Early Release

According to Harvard's Business School professor David Yoffie "no other company has ever received that kind of attention for a product launch. It's unprecedented". The attention Apple got from all the televisions, newspapers, websites and every other type of publicity source you may think of saved them a gr...

12 March 2007
12:31 GMT

Freespire Released First Ubuntu-based Alpha

We've talked some time ago about a new partnership between Linspire and Canonical, and two days ago, Freespire (the free version of Linspire) development team has made the first steps in this partnership by announcing a new development cycle of their operating system, this time based on Ubuntu Linux: "This is ...

10 March 2007
07:01 GMT

How to Get a Free Nokia N95

If there is something that will give people a blood rush that thing surely has something to do with being porn or free. Our subject is about something that is completely free, about a Nokia N95 multimedia cellphone.Wondering how come Nokia gives away free handsets? Because they need people to test their phones and, g...

8 March 2007
11:56 GMT

Unlimited Free SMS Service Available

SIPphone Inc., the makers of Gizmo Project and Gizmo Call, announced earlier this week the launch of its web-based SMS service Gizmo SMS, located here. Gizmo SMS lets people easily send SMS text messages to mobile phones around the world, from any web browser, for free. No registration or account setup required. Gizm...

8 March 2007
10:31 GMT

Buy a Pizza and Get a Free LG Chocolate

The places you can get a cellphone from have become more numerous each day but never in my whole life have I thought or even heard about getting a mobile phone from some shop selling pizzas. Although Pizza Hut isn't exactly your usual small grocery store, I'm sure no one would ever think they can get in, bu...

1 March 2007
11:02 GMT

Softpedia Goes Freeware Only - Part I: The Basics

Let's say you've just bought a brand-new computer with Windows XP, but you don't have any money left to buy additional software. Windows tries to offer its users most of the applications they would usually need, but the ones included are not enough. In these cases, the best solution is the use of freew...

16 April 2006
08:03 GMT


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