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Download free games from FilePlanet and Electronic Arts
Looking for a good video game to spend the rest of your long weekend with, but don't want to break the bank? Electronic Arts has released its classic strategy game Command & Conquer as a free download. This week marks the game's 12th anniversary, and throughout the month of September Electronic Arts plans to offer special promotions, including a free download of Command & Conquer Gold.Strategy games not your thing? FilePlanet has released free (advertising supported) versions of four popular games:
Of course, nobody makes it easy to download these games. We started downloading Command & Conquer a few minutes ago, and it looks like we should have the whole file in another 18 hours. We assume Electronic Arts' server is getting hammered right about now.
And FilePlanet requires you to sign up for a free (or paid) account in order to download games. If you don't want to shell out the money for a monthly subscription, you'll get shoved off to the back of the line and have to wait about 45 minutes to begin your download. So much for instant gratification.
[via Uneasy Silence and Just Another Mobile Monday]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jfjb said 5:21PM on 9-02-2007
nope, it ain't working
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Hypter said 11:00AM on 9-03-2007
EA has linked directly to the ISO's, so no waiting for file planet now... Works fine =)
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jfjb said 12:03PM on 9-03-2007
yesterday I got an almost empty screen at EA... servers full?
A knee way, I got fast working links at http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/48749 All is well in 1995.
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Jake said 1:07PM on 9-03-2007
I downloaded all four of the games from Ubisoft and I installed Rayman. There are ads for McDonald's everywhere, and as soon as you finish a mini-game, you watch a video. I would be able to tolerate this if were a different ad once in a while, but the same ad was going to drive me nuts!! And for McDonald's too. It seemed like they wanted people desperate enough to play the game, and have their minds subconsciously rerouted into supporting the McDonald's totalitarian cause. In a nutshell: not worth your time to download.
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ali said 4:34AM on 10-03-2007
helo
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marko said 1:41PM on 10-17-2007
I think to you get more games!!!
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