Free Play Archive

  • PAX East 2010: The oddest Street Fighter battle you’e ever seen

    PAX East 2010: The oddest Street Fighter battle you’e ever seen

    You'll find no one here who's not down for a round or two (or 10) of Street Fighter. No one! In fact, I'm half-convinced that that's Greg under that helmet.

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  • Atari and Cryptic anger the people who bought Star Trek Online at launch

    Atari and Cryptic anger the people who bought Star Trek Online at launch

    Remember Star Trek Online? Yeah, it came out waaaaay back on February 2nd of 2010. Well, it's Cryptic's game, but it's published by Atari, and since there maybe hasn't been the level of interest everyone was looking for, they are running a sale. It's a pretty good deal too, since you get the game for $10 off (which isn't so bad) and you an additional 60 days of free gameplay (which is the frustrating part). That's a total of 90 days of free play, including the 30 days that come with the purchase of the game. That seems really unfair to the players who pre-ordered or bought the game when it first came out.

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  • Rubik’s Slide offers 10,000 puzzles

    Rubik’s Slide offers 10,000 puzzles

    I don’t want to be a Fussy Freddy here but these new digital Rubik’s Cubes make it impossible to peel off the stickers and rearrange them. So what you’re left with is the insurmountable task of actually completing the puzzles yourself. Some people like that, though.

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  • Free GTA IV multiplayer this weekend on Xbox Live

    Free GTA IV multiplayer this weekend on Xbox Live

    Good news, everyone. (I hope people understand that reference.) Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City comes out tomorrow, and to help grease the wheels a little bit, this weekend will be a free-play weekend on Xbox Live for GTA IV. That is, if you have GTA IV but don't subscribe to Xbox Live Gold, you'll be able to play online multiplayer this weekend.

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  • Civilization Network headed to Facebook next year, for free.

    Civilization Network headed to Facebook next year, for free.

    Sid Meier—yes, the Sid Meier—just posted a note to Facebook announcing Civilization Network, which “will allow you to join together with your friends to create the world’s most powerful, richest, smartest, or just plain coolest civilization.” It will probably be huge, yes.

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  • For Free! Play Unreal Tournament 3 all weekend, starting today

    For Free! Play Unreal Tournament 3 all weekend, starting today

    Two things I like about this: one, we can play Unreal Tournament 3 for free all weekend. Two, Steam’s weekend apparently starts on a Thursday. You can pre-load the full version of Unreal Tournament 3 into Steam right now and then starting at 1PM Pacific, 4PM Eastern today, the game will be available to play. [...]

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