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Freebies EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Forza 3 gets new DLC packs: Free and not so free 13 Developer Turn 10 has just announced two new content packs for Forza Motorsport 3, the first being a free Hyundai Genesis Coupe car pack. This one is available on XBL now to Gold members, free of... Free (temporary) Xbox LIVE Gold for all! 32 Since I haven't booted my Xbox 360 up yet today, I haven't seen the glory that is the new dashboard update. From what I hear, it's decent. Not super useful, and not really good or bad, just "dece... Shattered Horizon getting a freebie map pack 14 It sounds like Futuremark Games Studio, the folks behind the newish zero gravity PC FPS Shattered Horizon, have plans to give back to all of the guys and gals who downloaded the game. The first d... Funcom is practically giving Age of Conan away 17 Desperate times call for desperate measures. Funcom is looking to gain more Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures subscribers by offering crazy deals to anyone who's played but has since stopped. If ... Here's the lucky winner of the PS3 Slim from Kia! 9 We teamed up with Kia to promote their Kia Forte Koup, the first coupe in its class to include MP3, USB and Bluetooth connectivity standard in all models. They wanted people to check out the new ... Play Killing Floor for free this weekend 26 Here's another free weekend courtesy of the cats at Steam. This time, it's Killing Floor. The promotion will start up tomorrow, so now would be a good time to commence pre-loading the game while ... Destructoid Exclusive: Dungeon Fighter Online's Fighter 31 What does it feel like to be a super hot chick who can deftly kick the asses of large groups of thugs all while looking great and managing not to rip the small amount of clothing you are wearing?... Twitter Party time: Uncharted 2 Fortune Hunter edition! 30 Ridiculously rare game related items for free? Why yes, this is Destructoid, where we give away things like that on a regular basis. Welcome and thanks for staying. Today, we're going to have a T... Brutal Legend is out today, we've got stuff to give away 2205 Electronic Arts has not sent me a copy of Brütal Legend, but would still like me to help promote their game for them. Not sure how that works but Hell, I've already agreed and we've got two ... A free LBP Norse pack from your favoritist weekend editor 30 Dear Destructoid Community,I want to thank you for being awesome so I'm going to give you free LittleBigPlanet stuff. It's a Norse Mythology pack and it comes with viking costumes and "creat... Battlefield Heroes: 2 million served and counting 15 The free-to-play -- or Play4Free, as EA dubs it -- Battlefield Heroes has reached 2 million registered player accounts. While such a number seems awfully high, when you take into consideration th... Last call: Win a PS3 Slim and the Watchmen Blu-Ray 121 Goozex has kept me happy for some time now with its game trading services, and I was excited to hear that they recently added movie trading as well. Hooray! The list of reasons to leave my house ... Contest: Nab some Uncharted 2 beta codes right now! 361 Our friends over at GameDaily got a bunch of Uncharted 2 codes to giveaway and felt like spreading the wealth around to us! So, we have 20 codes to giveaway and all you need to do to win a code i... Arkham Asylum 'Prey in the Darkness' DLC out tomorrow 14 Following last week's "Insane Night Map Pack" for Batman: Arkham Asylum is the "Prey in the Darkness Map Pack." Similar to the previous free content, this bundle will contain ... Flash-based Plants vs. Zombies is tiny, still awesome 10 For a while, Plants vs. Zombies was everywhere you looked. People wouldn't shut up about it -- myself included -- but sure enough, the pure gaming excitement everyone was dispensing finally died ... World at War PC patch 1.6 with more (free) maps out now 22 Another patch for the PC version of Call of Duty: World at War, another round of free maps. This time, it's the three maps from Map Pack 3: "Battery," "Breach," and "Revo... Live in Florida? Want to attend Infinite Bits for free? 37 Miami is a notoriously non-nerdy place -- in fact, wearing a Mario t-shirt around here could even earn you a few weird looks. Thank the gods, some people choose to ignore that and make their own ... Unreal Tournament 3 goes free for the weekend 12 Steam and Epic Games are throwing another one of those Unreal Tournament 3 free weekends, and even though it isn't the weekend just yet, UT3 is now free to play until Sunday.If you like what you ... Demon's Souls Deluxe edition is pretty incredible 52 Well, let's see, what do we know about Demon's Souls so far: Atlus game, hard as hell (this should be a given from the first thing I listed), packed with extra goodies if you preorder it (also a ... Rocket Riot winners and who's a Zimbabwe millionaire 6 I was going to use a regular screenshot of the game for my header, but then I found the picture above, which was actually titled "Rocket Riot". No lie. Obviously, it wins. Look at all t... Win free copies of Xbox 360 flight sim IL-2 Sturmovik! 47 Free stuff -- I has it! Today we have five prize packs to give away, each containing a copy of the new aerial combat game IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey, and a code which nets you two exclusive in... Did you win a Cursed Mountain prize pack? Follow me... 23 You know what I did this morning? I got up early and read a hundred and seventy separate comments about the survival horror you guys remember. No, I didn't skip any. I read them all. While it did... Sing the Rocket Riot theme song and win ten million! 23 Rocket Riot, which was released back in June, is one of those games you really shouldn't miss if you have a soft spot for retro and like multiplayer titles. I was chatting with the fine people ov... Wii Internet Channel is free now 37 When the Wii first launched, there was a brief window of opportunity in which customers could download the Internet Channel for free and browse the net via the gift of motion control. However, de... Grab six songs from the Little King's Story soundtrack free 2 Little King's Story is a delightful, stunningly pretty game, and if you read our review you know that we enjoyed it quite a bit. If you enjoyed it a smuch as we did, you've surely noticed that it... Comment on survival horror, win Cursed Mountain swag 172 Seriously, I have never seen this much swag in my life. It's everywhere. It's awesome. It's really cool stuff too, as you can see from the gallery -- thick, high quality hoodies, really nice cott... And now, five proud new owners of Resident Evil shirts are.. 17 Sometimes I feel like all I do is hand out free stuff. I guess this is good in that people probably want to be my friend because I have lots of free gaming swag to give them. On the other hand, m... Invincible Tiger released today, get the soundtrack free 11 Somewhat under the radar, Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao appeared for download on Xbox Live Arcade and PSN today. It's a side-scrolling beat-em-up notable for being the first console gam... Threadless gaming pack winners announced! 14 Let me tell you, it takes quite a while to read 343 haikus. But I did that this morning, and it was a total riot. Choosing only two winners out of all that was ridiculously difficult, and I ... Preorder A Boy and His Blob, get a squishy egg with a face 17 I understand that GameStop means well with all these preorders bonuses, but when it comes to this latest one for the upcoming Wii game A Boy and His Blob, well, it just seems like it could have b... Nvidia will give you Arkham Asylum for free... with a catch 15 If you're thinking of picking up a new graphics card anytime in the near future and you also have a hankering to get down and dirty in the halls of Arkham Asylum, freeze: it may be you can get on... Marvel Vs Capcom 2 Mix Tape now available free on PSN 26 Remember that collection of hip-hop tracks and remixes compiled as an alternate soundtrack for MvC 2? It was released on a super-limited 12-inch vinyl LP, and I was going to recruit a bunch of yo... First look at 'Splosion Man's Avatar Awards 9 Back when I was regularly playing 'Splosion Man on Xbox LIVE Arcade, I put a great deal of thought into trying to guess what the unlockable Avatar items would be. A scientist outfit? A mini 'Splo... Europeans getting Metroid free with Metroid Prime Trilogy 28 Often getting the short end of the stick when it comes to release dates, bonus items and even games themselves, Europeans are going to have an opportunity to get a little something from Nintendo ... Win a free beta codes for League of Legends! 148 [Editor's note: We have given away the 100 codes -- thanks for participating!] Here we go with the free stuff again! Today what I have for you is a virtual f*ckton of closed beta codes for the ne... The average Battlefield Heroes buyer spends how much!? 15 A Battlefield Heroes "buyer"? What's that? It's someone who not only plays the free-to-play Battlefield Heroes, but also manages to spend real money on microtransactions for the game li... Free Flipnote Studio now available for Nintendo DSi 27 Nintendo's free Flipnote Studio application for Nintendo DSi has snuck its way onto the Nintendo DSi Shop today. That's right, if you have a DSi and a wireless Internet connection, you can get it... Enter our Pangya contest and win a PSP 3000! 58 In case you didn't read our glowing review of Pangya: Fantasy Golf, I'll give you a quick refresher course: imagine a hybrid of a golf game and an anime-styled fantasy RPG with bright, sunny char... Free Xbox 360 Call of Duty: WaW Map Pack 3, also Chipotle 106 Okay, so there's no free Chipotle. That would be too amazing. As you know, I teased yesterday about giving out Call of Duty: World at War Map Packs today. Now we are. We just gave away some PS3 c... Show us your favorite gaming shirts and win Glitch apparel! 102 Longtime Destructoid readers already know how I feel about gaming apparel: for every great t-shirt out there, there's a dozen bad ones that are simply cliche, ugly or just plain stupid. Being a g... Watch Mindfreak, get free couch in Home 24 Are you tired of sitting on things not shaped like coffins in your virtual home in Home? It's just a pain, isn't it? But who wants to go out and buy a virtual something shaped like a coffin? Ther... Dungeon Fighter Online goes into Closed Beta 24 As the launch of the Closed Beta of Nexon America's newest free-to-play MMORPG, Dungeon Fighter Online, drew closer, I found myself still interested in the game but wondering if it would push all... Capcom releases video and details for MvC2 Mix Tape 18 Capcom posted some information on the Unity Blog about the upcoming release of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Mix Tape, a collection of hip-hop songs that acts as an alternate soundtrack for those players w... World at War PC gets a patch, 'Map Pack 2' for free tomorrow 10 Call of Duty: World at War's "Map Pack 2" was extremely popular with the console crowd. So popular, in fact, that the premium $10 add-on was downloaded more than one million times in it... This may or may not be the greatest Resident Evil shirt ever 41 When it comes to videogame-related t-shirts, there seems to be a hell of a lot more crappy designs than there are good ones. Slapping a giant, usually unattractive game logo on a black shirt? I'l... League of Legends will be free starting this September 11 Here's a piece of good news on the League of Legends front: the Defense of the Ancients-style game is launching in September as a free-to-play, microtransaction-supported PC title. This offer com... Give us your best Overlord captions and win your own minions 225 Look at that header picture. No, don't just look -- GAZE upon think. Think hard. There's a lot going on there. Lots of different minion faces, the Overlord's pose, his body language ... this pict... MechWarrior 4 plus its expansions for free? 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Twitter Friday: Serious bunny, Cell Factor (winner update) 21 And the winners are in!  Congratulations to the quickest to tweet back about our mysterious psychokinetic powers.  Our winners are: tr0tsky0 + DarthMazza + milereb + Bug42 + ZombieEmily... Celebrate July 4th with a free iPhone version of Columns! 14 I was planning on spending this weekend drinking beer and grilling food up on my balcony considering it's the fourth of July and all, but after hearing about this, I couldn't help but think I mig... Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time gets pre-order incentives 18 Pre-orders for Insomniac’s upcoming Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time are going to have you making some tough choices. You see, there are a lot of pre-order bonuses; four of them, i... Twitter Friday: Bustin' makes me feel...aw, nevermind 25 Update: Congratulations to Bug42 and NVmisfit, you're our Twitter quickest reply winners! So that's it for this week. Next Friday we're going to try something different -- we're going to give som... Battlefield Heroes finally comes out of beta 18 Pigs apparently can fly after all. DICE's microtransaction-supported, free-to-play Battlefield Heroes silently launched today after being in beta for what, five years? Alright, so it wasn't reall... The Drink Up, Rock Out guitar goes to ... the tongue guy! 6 When we asked you to show us how you rock out in our Drink Up, Rock Out contest, we expected some people to get creative (and as expected, you did), but JoeCamNet took the rocking out very litera... Zeno Clash getting free DLC, 50% off promo this weekend 10 Everyone's favorite decidedly weird, indie first-person brawler Zeno Clash is getting a dash of downloadable content this weekend, along with a lovely little promotional deal for players who have... Twitter Friday: Win a Puzzle Quest Galactrix code for PSN! 24 The glory of Twitter Friday RETURNS! 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