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Overcooked 2 gets a free Chinese New Year update today that adds new kitchens, chefs, and recipes. Most notably, it also brings a new survival mode where you try to cook for as long as possible as each new dish adds more time to the clock.

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Ubisoft’s recently-released toy spaceship game is lovely, but it needed more enemies and activities. Today’s free holiday update for Starlink: Battle for Atlas adds more enemies and activities, as well as a photo mode to capture all that sweet alien flora and fauna action. I love it when an update gives me everything

The latest from Bastion and Transistor developer Supergiant Games is a rogue-like dungeon crawler called Hades. It’s got a cool animated look, fast action and a sardonic hero. The best part? You can play it on PC right now for $19.99 in early access via the Epic Games store.

Once upon a time, the makers of Minecraft worked on a card-based strategy game called Scrolls. Today, Mojang re-named it Caller’s Bane and made it free. While the new title isn’t as cool (Bethesda sued over the original) the game is still a unique mix that’s worth checking out.

Free!, the swimming anime with shirtless anime boys, is getting a new series this June. It’s called Free!-Dive to the Future- and, if the teaser art is any indication, it won’t disappoint in the shirtless department.

Kingdom: New Lands got a free DLC expansion called Skull Island today. It adds a new territory to the pixel-animated, side-scrolling medieval strategy game as well as a new win condition apparently. According to the developers it’s also “challenging AF. Yeah, that’s right, capital A F. Fuuuuuuuuuuuu.” 

Grim Fandango Remastered is free on GOG right now as part of the digital store’s winter sale. You can go download the LucasArts point-and-click adventure game for zero dollars from now through December 14 at 9am EST.

If you picked up on Xbox One X during launch, check your console messages. Microsoft’s been passing out codes for a free download of The Lego Batman Movie in all its ultra HD glory. HDR really makes the darkness pop.

On Friday Atlus Japan teased a side-scrolling 2D Castlevania-style game starring Jack Frost and Jack O’Lantern of Shin Megami Tensei fame. Called Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue, it’s a real game PC gamers can download and play for free right now. It’s lovely.

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