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Free games for all, C&C, Far Cry, Prince of Persia and more

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Ubisoft and Electronic Arts have got all generous all of a sudden, releasing downloadable versions of some of histories favourites games, free.  What is the catch?

Okay so they are not exactly the newest games in the stable, and there might be some in game advertising to negotiated, but these are still great games now available for download in full.

Grab the ISO images and burn them to CD.

Firstly via ShackNews and developer Ubisoft, download the full versions of;

Far Cry (the tropical FPS)
Rayman Raving Rabids (crazy mini games full of humour and bunnies gone bad)
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon (lots of stealth followed by a short blasts of action)
Prince of Persia:Sands of Time (Take the Prince out for some wall-bounding fun)

Meanwhile Electronic Arts are celebrating 12 years of the Command & Conquer blowing little fellows up franchise by releasing the ISO images of  both the Global Defence Initiative (GDI) and their enemy, the cultish Brotherhood of Nod.

This ‘Gold’ edition of the original C&C is Windows XP compatible and available over at the official website.

Happy semi-retro game play.