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Article #696804Re: Beyond Good and Evil is FREE this month
From: MetalGuru
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 06:35
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 06:35
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On 10/12/2016 4:04 PM, Ross Ridge wrote: > Metal Guru <themet...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You missed out on a string of very good and free games these past few >> months. I hope they give Silent Dogs for free next month, but something >> tells me it's going to be one of the older Far Cries or Assassin's Creed >> games. > > It seems unlikely they'll be giving away Watch Dogs for free though. > It would make sense to help promote Watch Dogs 2, but next month is too > late, they'd be giving it away a couple of days before the release of > the sequel. You'd want to do it a fair bit in advance to help build up > hype for the new game. That's what they did with Beyond Good and Evil, > it was no coincidence they announced its sequel just after announcing > it would be free this month. Oops I meant to say Sleeping Dogs but that's not even an Ubisoft game IIRC. I don't think they'll be giving Watch Dogs away either although I wouldn't complain much if they did :) As a side note here's the link to get BGAE running on modern machines (this free version is NOT the HD remake that came out for the PS3/360 but the ancient original PC port, unfortunately) http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Beyond_Good_%26_Evil
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