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I was happy to stumble upon the free Kongregate game Midas today. Created by Melbourne-based Kongregate user wanderlands, it's a simple 2D platform/puzzler based around the story of King Midas. More »
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Yesterday Wayforward Technologies unleashed the majesty of Mighty Switch Force upon the Nintendo 3DS eShop, and while I only have a grand total of three codes to give away for the game, the wonderfully funky soundtrack is now available as a free download. More »
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A decade and a half ago a sublime blend of Eastern role-playing and Wild Western adventure was released in Japan. Today the talented folks at OC Remix celebrate that release with a free album featuring more than four hours of expertly twisted tunes from the soundtrack of the original Wild Arms. More »
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2K Sports is spreading holiday cheer with free codes for the "Legends Showcase" downloadable content for NBA 2K12, the extension that lets player go 1-on-1 with a raft of all-time greats in competitions such as HORSE, 21 and other blacktop basketball variants. More »
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What happens when 20 top video game music remixers take on 18 of the biggest, baddest bosses ever committed to CD or cartridge? That would be OC Remix's 30th free album, BadAss: Boss Themes. More »
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Announced back in July, the pin set Club Nintendo is giving free to its platinum members this year was met with the usual round of griping and complaining. One of our readers just received his and, you know, it's actually a pretty decent gift. More »
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Looking for a little intergalactic conflict music? Every day leading up to the game's December 20 launch BioWare is passing out free tracks from Star Wars: The Old Republic, perfect for endlessly looping while you stare at your calendar. More »
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Tomorrow Asteroid 2005 YU 55 will pass the Earth closer than the moon, a 1,312 foot chunk of rock slipping by a mere 201,000 miles away. For scientists it presents an excellent opportunity to study near-Earth objects. For Atari it's an opportunity to market their new free-to-play iOS game, Asteroids Gunner. More »
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There's probably a reason Act of Valor is being released in February, two months after the window closes for Academy Award nominees and generally the month in which distributors schedule their shittiest movies. The film may be visually interesting, but I have little hope for it being much more than a 120-minute Quicktime event. More »
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The world's largest dedicated video game retailer recently started selling GameStop-branded Android tablets, and now they've got their first exclusive, scoring Sonic CD a full month ahead of its wide release. More »
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People who are fans of words that mean what they're supposed to mean are probably not fans of the rhetorical loophole exploited by the term "free-to-play". More »
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Right now, the makers of Jetpack Joyride are running a Facebook promotion that gives you the game for free. Run over there, click like, get a download for the game on the iOS platform. This is a savings of only 99 cents because, like, the game is only 99 cents. For more on Jetpack Joyride, see our impressions of it from Gaming App of the Day. More »
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More than 100 independent developers gather together more than 300 games they deemed not "big" or "polished" or "real" enough to be worth the entry fee for the 2012 Independent Games Festival awards into one massive bundle, and you can download and play it for free. Everybody wins! More »
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Our good friends from Halfbrick have showered us with free Xbox Live codes for Fruit Ninja Kinect, both for the full title and for all of its downloadable content—the Storm, Art and Space packages of blades, shadows and new achievements. More »
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Tipped by commenter Mountanderson and verified by our own 3DS units, Zelda's 25th anniversary celebration is now in full swing four times over, as The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition is now available free in Nintendo's eShop and DSiWare. More »
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The colorful, imaginative online game from the team behind Flickr and the man behind Katamari Damacy goes live today at 1 p.m. eastern. More »
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If you're a fan of video game soundtracks, you can pick up a hefty 27-track compilation for free right now from The Gunstringer. Twisted Pixel just made it available on the game's official page. Head over there, click on "Downloads" atop the page and you'll see it. More »
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Super Smash Land, the PC 'demake' of the beloved Super Smash Bros. series is here in full, free of charge and looking faithfully Game Boy-esque. More »
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Available for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 September 13, the only reason you have for not picking up Red Dead Redemption's free Myths and Mavericks DLC is if you went and traded in the game for credit. You didn't trade in the game, did you? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5837996&view=rss&microfeed=true The first major dose of downloadable content for DC Universe Online, Fight for the Light goes live on September 6 in the U.S., with active subscribers donning green and yellow rings without having to pay a dime. Time to resubscribe! More »
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Rockstar's free thank you to the millions of fans that rampaged through the wild west in Red Dead Redemption drops September 13 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Now where's my warm and tender embrace? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5836580&view=rss&microfeed=true With more than 132 million paid downloads on mobile phones, EA Mobile gives the Tetris sales a rest and just gives it away for Android devices. It can be found in the Android Market right now. Go play. More »
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For over a decade Pokémon fans have been facing-off against one another in fierce trading card based battles around the world. Today those battles go online, and anyone with a web browser can play. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5834336&view=rss&microfeed=true Today is the last day for current Nintendo 3DS owners to register for the Nintendo 3DS Ambassador program. Just connect your Nintendo 3DS to the Nintendo eShop by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time to receive 20 free downloadable games. More »
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The End is like no other educational game you've played before. Commissioned by Channel 4 Education and produced by Preloaded studios, The End is a free online web-based platformer that probes into the player's philosophical and metaphysical opinions on morality and death. Combining physics-based puzzles with questions and battles with the world's Guardians, the game gives the player a deeper view at their own thoughts on important questions surrounding death. Scheduled for release this month, The End is worth keeping an eye on. More »
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I will play any game that pits the forces of magic against (relatively) modern military forces. Battlefield Heroes gets wizards today. I approve. More »
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Dark Horse is offering all of its Mass Effect comics for free, over the web, for the next 24 hours, a promotional move for both an upcoming Dark Horse Mass Effect series and surely tied to a panel at next week's San Diego Comic-Con. More »
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The astoundingly talented community at OverClocked Remix have released NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming, a free album featuring twenty-seven tracks and tons of artwork celebrating the 15th anniversary of Sega's beloved NiGHTS into Dreams. Download and love all over it. More »
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Thanks to the spare-time efforts of a single coder, Marathon the beloved FPS from the zenith of Mac gaming's days, will be released on the iPad by Bungie for the low low cost of zero dollars and zero cents. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5815438&view=rss&microfeed=true PlayStation 3 and PSP owners in Europe and the U.S. can now download the freebies Sony promised last month during the PSN outage. Keep in mind everyone trying to download inFamous at once is bound to cause some network congestion. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5808330&view=rss&microfeed=true Kicking off a two week exclusive launch at Amazon.com, Android owners can score Popcap's award-winning flower defense game Plants Vs. Zombies for free today only. Grab it before the price rises to $2.99 at midnight! More »
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While the brilliant and mostly dead scientific minds at Aperture Science aren't busy coming up with new ways for robots to kill you, they like to kick back and relax with a little testing music. Now you can too, with the first of three "downloadable aural stimulus packages" featuring the music of Portal 2. More »
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Microsoft wants U.S. high school, college, and university students to be productive, but not too productive. That's why they're giving away a free 4GB Xbox 360 to students purchasing a Windows 7 PC priced at $699 or higher. More »
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THQ doesn't want players spending too much time creating their custom sleazeball character when Saints Row: The Third hits the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC this holiday season, so they're releasing a standalone character creator before the game ships. More »
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Confirming reports earlier this week from the man himself, American McGee's Alice brings its insanity to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, with code for a free download packed inside every copy of its sequel, Alice: Madness Returns. More »
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Cinco Barnes has gone F-ing crazy and declared war on high prices!!! To celebrate their one year anniversary iPad, iPhone and android MMO Pocket Legends has made their "premium content" free, granting access to premium areas including a bunch of castles, crypts, swamps and sewers. Free ends on May 4, so get to it. More »
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BioWare celebrates the success of Dragon Age II by giving fans that purchase and register a copy of the game online before April 30 a free copy of the PC version of Mass Effect 2. How does the offer work? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5789110&view=rss&microfeed=true Episodic adventure crafter Telltale Games has dropped all charges for the first installment of its Back to the Future series, making it available for free download to anyone with a PC or Mac capable of playing it. More »
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We're just a day away from Kotaku's final Denver fundraiser, a party we're throwing to raise money for those in need following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. More »
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Microsoft wants to enlist your help in testing the Xbox Live network, rewarding volunteers willing to donate up to six hours of Xbox 360 time with crazy mad scientist goodies once the testing's done. Here's how to participate. More »
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