Harbinger points out in the forums that you can now get your hands on some Command & Conquer action, completely free of charge.

Why? Shameless promotion, of course. EA has decided to give away some of its older, better games to promote one of its newer, unanticipated ones - being Command & Conquer 4, which is now in public beta.

Hit the jump for the games list and download link......

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Creator of Supreme Commander, Gas Powered Games, has just announced their 'next big thing'. It's Kings and Castles, which they've just started video blogging about. I'm not big on fantasy, and I'm a terrible RTS player, but this should generate a lot of excitement amongst fans of either.

"It's an epic RTS that will let you take on the role of one of three powerful kings vying for control of an all-new, original fantasy world. For more info, plus a video of Chris Taylor being bitten by a horse" tells the studio's website. Hit the jump for the full press release......

IGN have set fighting fans alight with anxious curiosity revealing an exclusive scoop on Street Fighter IV coming to the iPhone. But not the hardcore fighters, of course. They think the idea is kind of a bad joke.

There is some real promise, though. As the article explains, "this is no quickie, banged-out port. Capcom has taken months to come up with suitable controls for a platform with no physical buttons, employing a virtual pad and move buttons to recreate the arcade stick right on the touchscreen."...

DICE were courteous enough to let us know there's some scheduled downtime today, from 8PM to 11PM AEST (9PM to 12AM AEDT). During this time work will be done on the EA master servers - hopefully fixing the friends list once and for all? With any luck the outage won't be as long as forecast. For those of you who jump on once they've wrapped us, let us know if there are any clear network performance differences or fixes...

PopCap Games hugely popular Plants vs Zombies, previously only available on the PC and Mac, has made its way to the iPhone with much community applause. "We've stayed true to the original computer version with the full-featured gameplay of Adventure mode, and have optimized this adaptation around a seamless touch interface" said Andrew Stein, Director of Mobile Platforms.....

Downloads of the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demo have eclipsed 2 million. That's a lot of players, and that's just the demo on the PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE Marketplace - PC beta users are not included.

To help get even more of you into the action, DICE have followed Rebellion's lead and released a demo tutorial trailer which outlines how the game should be played. It certainly can be a bit confusing initially at least, so with any luck this will help new players hit the ground running, quite literally....

ABC's Good Game have had the pleasure, or displeasure, of interviewing South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson. Unsurprisingly, his paranoid ignorance has delivered another few gems of conversation, including his explanation that he feels his family is more at risk from gamers than the motorcycle gangs who also hate him.

I'm certain that bikers state-wide are up-in-arms that they've been likened to such a broad demographic of society. Who knows, maybe they'll now want to make a point that they're far scarier minority than Atkinson suggests......

The Interactive Games & Entertainment Association (iGEA) lodged its official submissionheated R18+ discussion...

For just $49.95 USD, unil February 19th, you'll be able to grab the entire THQ Complete Pack on Steam. This includes Company of Heroes, Dawn of War II, Saints Row 2 and many others. Because S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is included, you'll also be able to get 30% off of its sequel; Call of Pripyat....