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Freebies and vouchers for gamers and gadget lovers
Free online text games.
Feb 23rd
I’m a huge fan of text games. Iron Realms runs a good selection of online text games, including Achaea – a medieval role play world with an interesting economy and a complex class system.
You can play Achaea in your browser or you can download an special application – such as zMud or cMud, to play it with. Most people start the browser way and then upgrade to a standalone client when they feel that they’ve outgrown the browser plugin.
Achaea is a free role play game – there are microtransactions, but you can do pretty much everything in-game without spending any money, which is always good.
Champions Online Goes Free to Play from Jan 25th
Jan 12th
Atari Europe announced today that the Free-to-Play update to the superhero MMORPG Champions Online™ will be available worldwide on Tuesday, January 25, 2011.
Champions Online: Free For All also features additional premium content for purchase. Adventure Packs, items, powers and costume pieces can be selected a la carte inside Cryptic’s innovative C-Store. Additionally, current players may continue subscribing as Gold Members, while new players may also optionally upgrade to Gold status, which unlocks most of the game’s content and includes extra features for a set price of £10.34/€14.94 per month.
“It’s a genuine pleasure to be able to announce our release date for Champions Online: Free for All,” said John Needham, CEO, Cryptic Studios. “On January 25, 2011, any gamer or would-be superhero can play within the ever-improving world of Champions Online for no cost whatsoever.”
Champions Online has been lauded since its launch for the nearly limitless options it gives players. The completely free to play Free For All update offers even more:
- Play Everything – With the exception of special Adventure Packs, all the content in Champions Online: Free For All is available to every player. Once a player enters a location within the MMO game world, nothing is off-limits!
- Unlimited Play Time – Play as much as you like, as long as you like, at absolutely no cost. No subscription or credit card required.
- Your Own Hero, Your Own Story – Become a hero, encounter his or her Nemesis, and advance to maximum level at no cost.
- Play Your Way – Utilize the optional web-based and in-game C-Store to purchase gameplay upgrades or additional premium content.
Champions Online brings epic heroism to the MMORPG genre with depth that challenges the most experienced online gamers, while its fast-paced action engages new entrants to the online superhero universe. Join with Defender and the legendary Champions to stop Dr. Destroyer and his minions in the ultimate showdown between good and evil.
To learn more about Champions Online: Free for All, please visit:
Great Deals in the Steam Sale
Dec 24th
Have you forgotten someone’s Christmas present? Want to send a guildmate a gift they’ll love, but missed the post? Check out the Steam sale! Theres some great game offerings including Half Life 2 for less than £2, and some nice indie bundles – Hacker Evolution, Uplink, and other classics in one bundle for less than £3!
Other discounted games include Torchlight (under £4), Bat Man Arkham Assylum (under £10), and Mafia 2! You can buy the games for yourself, or gift them to another Steam user – giving them a nice suprise in their inbox tomorrow morning!
Get DRM Free Games in the GOG Sale!
Dec 21st
GOG.com – the site which offers DRM free classic game downloads, is offering some deals for the holiday season, with up to 40% off 171 titles, including Duke Nukem 3D, Fallout, and Beyond Good & Evil, and Castles!
They’re also offering Access Games’ Tex Murphy 1 & 2 for free until December 24th for anyone who registers with GOG.com. There’s a huge list of discounted titles on sale now – with many games for £3 or less. All the games in the sale (and all of the games on GOG for that matter) are completely DRM free (and can be installed on as many computers as you want), and many of the classics have been packaged with DOSBOX, so you can play them without having to worry about fiddling with the setup yourself.
If there’s any games you’ve wanted to revisit, now is your chance.
A Free Game A Day With Big Fish
Nov 2nd
Big Fish Games are offering a free game download every day! Check out their offerings here. The offerings range from puzzles to platformers, and you can subscribe to their email list to get updates on what the game of the day is.
They’re casual games – small downloads, and good fun – especially to while away the hours on patch day!
LOTRO Sale – One Day Only!
Oct 12th
If you play the Lord of The Rings Online, you’ll love this offer – especially if you’re a F2P player that purchases quests as you go. There’s a 24 hour sale starting at midnight that’s going to feature three zones — the Lone-lands, Evendim and North Downs — with a massive discount – 75% off the quest packs! Considering that these three zones are where you spend most of your time from 20-39 so it’s a great idea to snatch them up for just 386 TP instead of the normal price of 1540 it would cost.
The best news is that if you do the deeds in these three zones, you’ll end up with 550 TP – so you’ve made a profit on TP by buying the packs!
Definitely check it out if you’re a free-to-play LOTRO user.
Win a Netbook With World Play Day
May 2nd
The Ubuntu Women Project is organizing a special competition for World Play Day. If you have daughter under the age of 12 who loves computers, this competition is ideal for you.:
A pivotal issue within computing cultures of today is the overemphasis on boys and men as the primary consumers of technology. Children learn by example and since the majority of media images consist of boys playing computer type games and girls playing with stereotypical princess type dolls; this contributes to the lack of involvement in science and technology by our young women.
It hurts us all to have this subconscious of pigeonholing of our children, and to help counter this for Ubuntu’s community, we would love to have a collection of examples of young girls (toddlers through to 12 years old) playing with — and loving, and being encouraged to pursue — Ubuntu. This would allow parents of girls to demonstrate that it really is ok to be intrigued by the shiny screens, blinking lights, tappity-tap of keyboards, and faint whirs of computer fans.
The girls do not have to be alone in the photos, and photos taken prior to this announcement are eligible. We are not expecting any particular pose, but we would much prefer candid shots — they say SO much more. We do prefer that the images come at a large resolution, in a standard format (JPEG, PNG) and not embedded in documents.
Please email your photos (or links to flickr, etc.) to ubuntuwomen.competition at gmail.com by UTC 23:59 14th of May 2010.
Get Free Games on Steam
Mar 12th
ATI and Nvidia are both running a limited time offer to give you some cool free games on Steam.
NVidia graphics card owners can get Peggle: Extreme, Half Life 2: Lost Coast, Half Life 2: Deathmatch, and Portal: First Slice (which features the first 11 levels of Portal. To redeem the offer, click here.
If you’re an ATI graphics card owner, there’s a similar offer for the two Half Life 2 games, which can be redeemed here.
Great Planet Gizmo Voucher Codes
Mar 11th
Get 10% off a iHome iP1E Studio For iPod\iPhone at Planet Gizmo – just use this voucher code:
Code: 10PIE
Expires: 12/04/10
Free Pair Of AKG 312 With Purchase Of Fatman Red I at Planet Gizmo – use this voucher code:
Code: 312
Expires: 31/03/10
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Mar 11th
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