Ah, Halloween, the scariest holiday of the year, and an excuse to crack out some of your best cosplay creations to overly impress your friends who only bothered to slap a bit of white foundation on their face and call themselves a zombie. But given it's a Wednesday, and you may not be out partying t...
News just in, the original release of Metro 2033 has just been made free for the next 24 hours on the Steam platform, and as long as you download it within that timeframe, it's yours to keep for life.It's a pretty decent way to celebrate Halloween, and there's not too many occasions where games as e...
The real-time strategy/first-person action game hybrid BattleZone: Combat Commander, which builds upon the legacy of the 1998 game BattleZone, will have its multiplayer portion free to play until Monday, July 30th at 10 AM PDT. To access it, simply install the game through the Steam client or GOG Ga...
Blizzard is giving you another opportunity to try Overwatch for free next weekend, as it goes free to play between July 26th and July 30th!During the five free days, players will be able to access all 28 of the games characters, including Wrecking Ball, as well as 18 maps, with all game mods includi...
Scott Cawthon is infamous for releasing new Five Nights at Freddy’s games at an extremely quick rate, but despite something of a misfire with FNaF World, the majority of these games have brought the same high quality, compelling horror. I discovered Five Nights at Freddy’s after watching a series o...
Overwatch, the popular team-based First Person Shooter that was all the rage before these things called 'Battle Royale' games came along, is free to play all this bank holiday weekend, so if you haven't yet had a chance to try it, now is the perfect chance.It comes about as the game celebrated it's...
If you're one of the few remaining people never to have played Fallout 4, well, now is a good time to get hooked, as the game is currently completely free to play on the Steam platform this weekend, after which you can buy for a nice discount! So what are you waiting for? Despite the popularity of...
Remedy Entertainment's horror franchise, Alan Wake, has run into a bit of a horror of its own. An age old issue that has begun to plague games as of late - expiring licenses. The developers have lost a number of licenses to the songs included in the game, ranging from Roy Orbison's "Sandman", to Dav...
It's time for another free alert! You know, where we inform you of a deal so good that it's actually free? Yeah, that. This time around, it concerns none other than... Mass Effect 2! You're probably already well aware of EA's "On The House" program. If not, let me summarise it; every few weeks to m...
Here at FilesNation, we pride ourselves on the diligent reporting of modding news. But we also do, once in a while, report on non-gaming news, such as when a game goes free to play. Like right now. This is a time limited offer by Ubisoft, and it's quite a good one, at that. With Ubisoft turning thi...
Heads up, there’s a Steam sale! Game publisher Paradox Interactive, known for games such as Europa Universalis IV and Cities Skylines have many games on sale at the moment, with some titles having as much as 80% off. Given our intense focus on mods, it’s only fair to mention that most of the flagsh...
Swedish publisher Paradox Interactive, known for their Hearts of Iron, Magicka, and Crusader Kings series, published the sales numbers for their most recent titles earlier today. The numbers are coming after Paradox asked SteamSpy to pull their sales numbers, as they were not "representative" of the...
Ubisoft was founded in 1986 by the Guillemot family, and has since then bestowed upon us a whole host of great games, from the Assassin's Creed franchise, Call of Juarez, Driver, and the Rayman universe. This year, they'll be releasing the first movie based on an original Ubisoft game; the Assassin...