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Companies Offer AAA Games For 'Free'

Posted by Zonk on from the depends-on-your-definition-of-free dept.

Both Ubisoft and EA are offering up free games to cash-conscious gamers this week. For the low, low cost of nothing you can play titles like Command and Conquer Gold, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and Far Cry. The catch? Well, EA's offering is totally gratis; 1995's C&C Gold is a gift to gamers for supporting the series for all these years. The Ubisoft games, though, are only "free". They're available from Fileplanet in ad-supported format.

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  1. Re:Sort of like Valve? by Odin_Tiger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can't play DoD / CS anymore, for some reason. It always seems sort of laggy, but more like keyboard lag or something...I call it 'CS / DoD On Ice' because that's what it feels like; you sort of drift around instead of sharp movements. I first noticed it over a year ago, and have used 3 video cards and essentially 2 entire systems in that time. CS:S / DoD:S and Condition Zero all work fine, tho. It's bizarre.

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  2. Re:Sort of like Valve? by Thansal · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    set hl.exe to low priority, this should fix it.

    more on it here.

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