Well, Nintendo has announced today that those who paid said fee will be getting credit towards any NES game this October while the Internet Channel will be free to use for all.

What’s more, Nintendo has also let us know that they are updating the browser’s Flash from 7 to Flash Lite 3.1, making for a whole slew of new found usability.

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EA has revealed a new trailer for the game, this time with a catchy song and full on robot dances. The trailer gives brief, humorous descriptions about the classes in the game and dazzles you with a bunch of bright colors. Anyways, the trailer is pretty entertaining so check it out.

Already with one million players, Battlefield Heroes is looking to be a very popular free-to-play game. Be sure to check out our review on Battlefield Heroes in case FPS veterans are iffy on the cartoony presentation of the game.

Without announcement, the Pure DLC pack for Mirror’s Edge on the PlayStation Network appears to be available free of charge. The DLC originally costs £7, but it has since become free. The Pure DLC includes challenging time trial levels, including:

• Kinetic
• Actino Rise
• Razzmatazz
• Actino
• Reflex
• Chroma
• Flow
• Velocity
• Synethesia (PS3 Exclusive)

So, what are you waiting for? Go download the content while you still can!

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With the new MechWarrior title on its way, one can’t help but to look back on previous installments of the franchise. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of BattleTech, MechWarrior 4: Vengeance will be made available free to download. All of the game’s existing expansions, Black Knight and Mercenaries, will also be included in the offer.

The game was released nearly nine years ago, so it will be interesting to see how far the series has come since then. No word on when the download will be up, but it will hopefully be available in the following days. MechWarrior 4 will be exclusively distributed by MekTek Studios.

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In celebration of The Elder Scrolls 15th anniversary, Bethesda Softworks is offering the The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, free of charge. The download clocks in at around 148 MB, and requires a DOS emulator. The game was released back in 1996, so if you’re worried that your computer can’t handle it, you can relax.

The classic RPG can be downloaded over at the Elder Scrolls website. In case you already haven’t, The Elder Scrolls: Arena is also available for download in a small 9MB package.

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If you’ve read, heard, or watched any form of media in the past couple of days you’ll know that Michael Jackson aka The King of Pop has passed away. To commemorate the artist’s greatness Microsoft decided to offer the music video for his hit single Thriller free over charge during the weekend.

Well, during the 2 days it was offerent MTV Multiplayer reports that the video was downloaded over 50,000 times. They then go on to point out that 50,000 is just 0.25% of Xbox Live’s 20 million subscriber base. Of course, Michael Jackson might be considered a bit old school to the majority of those 20 million.

Nonetheless, Michael Jackson’s legacy shall live on.

If you don’t already own Left 4 Dead, Steam is offering players a chance to play the game for free starting 12:01AM GMT this Friday. The game clocks in at around 4GB, so you should pre-load the title now so you have time to play tomorrow. The survival horror FPS retails for $39.99 on Steam.

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NCsoft has recently made public a whole slew of information regarding an upcoming expansion for their popular MMORPG Lineage II.

Entitled Gracia Final, this free expansion will include an entire new continent for players to explore. But that’s not all as NCsoft is also adding the ability for players to use new aerial transformation skills such as Aurabird Falcon, Aurabird Owl which will allow players to view Gracia fro an all new angle.

Gracia Final will expand the game’s Olympiad tournament to allow for 3 vs 3 matches along with a new arena that allows players to duke it out against random opponents. Also included is a new PVP mode pitting players against eachother in capture the flag inspired games.

Kotaku is also reporting that the expansion is playable now in a beta form on the game’s public test servers which you can get by swinging by FilePlanet, here.

Just as previously reported, the trial for Crysis Wars has officially went live today. The will will run until April 17th and will allow players to play both online multiplayer along with LAN multiplayer.

That’s not all as Crytek has went ahead and announced the entrance of Crysis Maximum Edition marketed towards latecomers on the Crysis scene, hitting May 5th. Included in the Maximum Edition is Crysis, Crysis Warhead, and Crysis Wars priced at an honest $39.99.

Honestly though, Crytek, will all of your games have titles that are just variations of “Crysis“?

You can get more information on the Crysis Wars trial, here.

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I admit, that while on Kongregate, I found a game that turned out to be a whole lot different from what I expected.  When you walk in on a game that calls itself Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (WTF for those of you who don’t know radio lingo), you don’t exactly know what to expect out of it.  So when I got a mild Space Invaders clone, I was somewhat relieved if a bit disappointed.

In Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the White House is under attack, and you’ll take command of what might be a tank and what might be a column to fire random blobs at threats that fall from the sky, everything from paratroopers to UFOs to bombs and all the way up to enormous cruise missiles.  You’ll go up in rank for every wave you survive (I personally got as high as major), and every enemy you miss adds to your threat level, which will end the game upon reaching a certain height.
Certain things could have improved the game vastly–different weapons, various other threats besides the standard four that I’ve already listed, even a way to lower the threat level as you proceed would’ve made for a deeper gameplay experience.  But no, we’re stuck with a fairly bare-bones shooter that doesn’t bring in a whole lot of fun.

It’s not exactly a bit of long term fun, but I don’t necessarily regret giving it a try.  I’d likely never go back so I really can’t recommend it, but if you do feel like giving it a try, you might not be terribly disappointed.

Released for free, the mission was originally intended to be the third mission in the game’s Global Liberation Army campaign; it proved to be a bit too edgy to be included in the final release. Dubbed “Black Sheep”, the mission entails:

…Players were given command of the Toxin Tractor, a slow-going farm vehicle modified to spray a deadly corrosive agent, and ordered to eliminate a town that had been "corrupted beyond salvation" by the USA’s propaganda. While the mission was ultimately removed from Generals, the Toxin Tractor was available in other campaign missions, as well as in multiplayer and skirmish modes.

If you have the game, be sure to check this unethical (and also immoral) mission out.

If you didn’t already know the beta for browser-based FPS, Quake Live, has been unleashed onto the public. 

To sign up for the beta just head over to www.quakelive.com, click on Play Now Free and sign up.

The beta has been more that successful with 113,00 users already registered and another 20,000 put in a queue. It’s been so successful that the id was forced to temporarily turn the servers off. Impressive.

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The content comes as the latest update to the game which has been running for quite some time now. It now has a complex financial ecosystem and population, with CCP recently reporting that its previous record for concurrent EVE players was broken when over 45,000 users were recorded to playing the single-shard game simultaneously.

Mission 1: The Morrocan
This mission sends you into the most heavily guarded region of the Leboa-Sako territory. Hiding out at the old Legion fort is a Moroccan who might be able to help you locate the Jackal. Your objective is to locate him and find out what he knows.

Mission 2: The American
Your predecessor has tracked down the American informant to the Dogon village in the rocky northern ranges. Your objective: follow his trail and find out what the informant told him.

The publisher is yet to say if the content will be released for the console editions. Far Cry 2 has been released for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. The abovementioned missions can be downloaded from any major download site.

The company has apparently hit an “unexpected delay with getting the content online from Microsoft” and “have suspended sending out the token codes until the content becomes available,” according to a forum post.

"We hope to have this resolved in the next 24 hours and apologize profusely for the delay," wrote community manager Sean Baptiste. "Again, we apologize for the delay and are working our butts off to get the content out to you."

PS3 owners will start to receive their codes later this week.

Developed by Media Molecule, the game has players creating levels, characters and whatnot using tools provided with the game. It will also offer various multiplayer opportunities.

To celebrate the game’s release, a pair of free bonus downloads will be available for the first week of its retail presence. Gamers will be able to download a free, limited edition Spacesuit costume for SackBoy, as well as a rare ‘I was there Week One’ t-shirt.

To be published by Emote Games, the game will enter a beta phase scheduled for next month. It intends on supplying players with social networking tools to build a community of hunters online. Sarah Palin might be interested in that…

The game will use Avalanche’s in-house technology and is said to be partly played in a web browser.

Look for it later this year.

In the mean time, however, Maxis will be releasing a free trial version of the Creature Creator. The software will allow players to create, you guessed it, creatures. It will contain around 25% of all of the available creature parts of the full retail game. The trial software will be included in the SimCity Box, which is slated for a June release. Alternatively, you can download the trial separately on the official website around the same time.

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