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Free games, free games; where for art thou, free games? They’re here, and this time with collectible card gameMad Crown for Steam. What do you get when you mix an RPG, collectible cards, skill progression, dieselpunk aesthetics, monsters, dungeons, roguelike elements, and turn-based fighting? A run-on sentence, for starters. Also, you getMad Crown, which celebrates its graduation out of Early Access this week. To celebrate, developer S-Game is giving out 25 copies of the full game for you to dive into....

Princess Zelda wants you to Pokemon Go to the polls My fellow Hylians,years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free....

German PC magazine PCGames has some spicy new details onCrysis 2, that big PC games that nobody will ever be able to run … oh, wait, it’s on consoles as well? Yay! Now more than three percent of the population will get to play it! Crysis 2is set three years after the original and based in a ruptured New York City. A whole bunch of surprises and a deeper storyline than Crytek’s usual fare has been promised, so look forward to a more story-driven experience this time around....

And here’s how to do it Tomorrow, January 22,Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witchfinally arrives on US shelves. The PlayStation 3 role-playing game is a collaboration between developer Level-5, and animation house Studio Ghibli — two companies that are among the most consistent in their medium in terms of quality. Any joint effort from these two powerhouses demands attention. I demoedWrath of the White Witchat E3 and came away quite tickled....

I didn’t The rating that the ESRB gives a game prior to release isn’t the one that it’ll necessarily have forever. No Goblin found this out recently whenRoundaboutwas reclassified from Teen to Mature. As No Goblin detailed on thegame’s site, the bump in rating came from the “volume of blood” found inRoundabout. The developer cheekily noted that it is obviously a more violent title thanDark Souls II, which has a Teen rating....

The Remember Klaiber Evolution is now live inEA FC 25, and you can complete the upgrade to boost one of your lower-rated items. This evolution is based on Klaiber, who was originally an RB item but was popular as a CB in the community. The evolution can be used on only one card of your choice, but it’s available for free. Let’s take a look at the requirements, followed by the upgrade conditions and the best players to use....

Publisher does a good turn for gay rights Electronic Arts has thrown its lot in with theHuman Rights Campaign, a coalition of business allied to help repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. The act, for those not in the know, is bigotry dressed in the coward’s garb of traditionalism, seeking as it does to stifle the legality of same-sex marriage for noactualgood reason. The publisher joins the ranks of such companies as eBay, Thomas Reuters, and Marriot, as well as many other Fortune 500 companies that are championing their own counter to DOMA, the Respect for Marriage Act....

Well, someone had to do it! EA went and had a particularly poor press conference at E3 this year, with tons of droning on about sports titles, mobile games, and things we already knew about. While I’m actually a fan of the sports and mobile arena, the way it was handled today is just poor form all around — full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. How about thatStar Wars: Battlefrontfootage though?...

Square Enix’s music department has promised an extensive celebration to commemorateFinal Fantasy’s25th anniversary, starting with two albums dedicated to the first six titles in the series. The first is titledPIANO OPERA FINAL FANTASY I/II/IIIwhich features 13 piano arrangements of Nobuo Uematsu’s early works and is due out on February 29th, 2012 (an early review of the album can be found onOSV). Of note is the fact that while Square Enix has released a piano arrangement album for nearly everyFinal Fantasygame to date under the ‘Piano Collections’ series, the first three games never enjoyed this treatment until now....

Jump Forcecame out this past February and introduced a few new characters into the mix: two of which (Kane, Galena) were boss characters. Much to the chagrin of the community, however, Bandai Namco did not make them playable, even as unlocks…until now. Due “the week of July 22” (so any day now),Jump Forceis getting a huge free update that adds Kane and Galena as playable fighters, as well as a type D sword style, and online raid boss battles....

Requiem for a Dying Song Activision has quietly announced thatGuitar Hero Live’sonline video service, GHTV, will be shutting down on Jun 15, 2025. This will see the termination of any semblance of DLC the game once had (since no content packs were ever released for the title). The ability to purchase more “Hero Coins” actually ended a few days ago (on Jun 04, 2025) along with the iOS version ofLive(which is now unceremoniously gone from the App store)....

22 minutes, if you want all of that We sat down with Cliff Bleszinski at PAX Prime last week to talk about his studio’s new gameLawBreakers. We chatted about thegameplay mechanicsand thefree-to-play model. There’s still more to come from that interview. However, one thing we didn’t get to do was actually play the game. All we’ve been going on is theinitial gameplay trailer. It’s fine, but these things tend to be heavily scripted and edited....

Flashback Far Cry 5is undergoing a major change of scenery for its first add-on. It’s ditching the culty backwoods of Montana for theAgent Orange-ravaged jungles of Vietnam. Just this morning, Ubisoft released a teaser trailer forFar Cry 5: Hours of Darkness. This DLC is a flashback to the Vietnam War as Wendell Redler saves prisoners of war and goes guerrilla to fight the Viet Cong. Redler is an ally in the main campaign ofFar Cry 5....