Microsoft Flight Simulator is coming back in the guise of Microsoft Flight. Anyone who fondly remembers whiling away hours trying to master the billion levers and controls inside a Windows 95 rendered Boeing 747 will soon get to play a completely overhauled flight sim for free. Read more
Blizzard has taken a big step in luring more gamers to World of Warcraft addiction. With one eye on the spread of free-to-play MMOs, it’s announced a new way in to the game called World of Warcraft Starter Edition. It’ll allow you to download the game and play until your character reaches level 20.
There are some other restrictions – gold is tops out at 10 and trade skills at 100 plus the Auction House, mailbox and player-to-player trading are blocked as well as public and voice chat. As a free player, you’ll also be barred from joining guilds. Hit level 20 and you’ll need to upgrade to a paid subscription. Blizzard is betting you’ll be hooked by then.
Out now | From £free | World of Warcraft
LG is cock-a-hoop – it has just announced that the wildly popular (and soon to be made into a film) Angry Birds Rio will come pre-loaded on all LG phones.
The roll-out starts with the Canadian version of the Optimus 2X. Yong-seok Jang, VP of Business Strategy at LG’s mobile arm, said: “Angry Birds Rio will help showcase the power, smoothness and speed of LG’s Optimus series of Android smartphones to our customers.”
Bioware is celebrating. Dragon Age 2 has sold more than one million copies in the two weeks its been out in the world. To thank fans of Dragon Age 2, its offering a free copy of Mass Effect 2 for PC to all Dragon Age 2 owners. All you need to do is enter the code for the online pass that you god with the game (The Black Emporium DLC) at the Bioware site and it’ll show you the way to your free Mass Effect 2.
If you’ve previously registered on Bioware Social but have now lost the card with your code, just log in to the site and hit the “Lost my code” link. That’ll automatically activate it. Hit the headline and head for the comments to let us know how you’re finding Dragon Age 2.
Out now | £free | Bioware
The Sonos Controller for Android was meant to arrive at the end of March but we’re here and it’s not. Sonos’ VP of Quality has popped up on the firm’s forums to explain why:
“We know you’re anxiously awaiting the Sonos Controller for Android. Unfortunately, testing the app is taking a bit longer than we anticipated. The latest addition to our free controller-line up won’t arrive until April but when it does, it is going to rock.”
That’s encouraging and we hope that April deadline sticks!
The iPhone mini and the prospect of free Mobile Me are the latest Apple rumours to get firmed up by a report from Apple’s favourite journalist, Yukari Iwatani Kane. Kane has previously appeared to be a conduit for controlled leaks from Cupertino so the arrival of the iPhone mini rumours in the pages of the Wall Street Journal is worthy of comment.
Apple MobileMe is quite the neglected child. Sure Apple perked up the email and calendar interfaces recently but since Find My iPhone went free, subscribers have been wondering what the annual subscription actually buys them. One MobileMe customer sent Steve Jobs an email and in typical Jobbsian fashion, a succinct reply swiftly followed. Read on to see what Steve Jobs has to say about Apple MobileMe 2011. Warning: it is brief…
On the hunt for the best free iPhone apps? We don’t blame you. If you own an iPhone, you need something to run on it, but you might be feeling a little light of pocket after shelling out for the pricey fella itself. In these tricky economic climes, we know you’ll want to cut down on your expenses so why not start by checking out the best free iPhone apps Top 5? They’re all to the right of the full post.
