Video Game News: The Freebie Games Of February

Published January 29, 2016

Ah the month of love. I can’t think of a better month for console subscription services to give some quality games to keep us on our couches and away from all that icky flowers and chocolate business.

Without any more gushing over the commercial significance of February, let’s check out what free games will come with your Xbox Live Gold and Playstation Plus subscriptions.

Instant Game Collection:

Helldivers (PS4/PS3/PS Vita) – Strap into your Hellpod and get ready to face mankind’s ultimate enemies on their own turf as the Helldivers in this high-octane, top-down shooter.

Nova-111 (PS4/PS3/PS Vita) – NOVA-111 is a sci-fi themed turn-based adventure game with a real-time action twist. Explore alien worlds and combat fiendish alien creatures in your quest to restore the flow of time, all in the name of SCIENCE!

Nom Nom Galaxy (PS4) – Welcome to Soup Co., Astroworker! After crash-landing on an alien planet, explore the environment, create huge factories and ship delicious batches of soup into space to earn gold for weapons, vehicles and more!

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax – ATLUS and Arc System Works team up once again to produce the next deadly broadcast on the Midnight Channel! The P-1 Grand Prix tournament is barely over, but the P-1 Climax has already begun. A mysterious red fog settles over the real world and the Persona-users assemble anew to apprehend the culprit once and for all. The time to settle accounts has come.

GRID Autosport (PS3) – Experience an intense, authentic and deep world of professional motorsport – specialise in your favourite racing style or conquer them all across 100 routes at 22 incredible locations. GRID Autosport features a huge career, advanced rival driver AI, the return of in-car view & the most exciting high-performance racing cars. Extensive multiplayer options include clan-style Racing Clubs for online team competition, new challenges every week powered by RaceNet plus 2 player split-screen racing.

Lemmings Touch (PS Vita) – Yippee! The much-loved Lemmings return, as their puzzle-filled adventures are reimagined and redesigned specially for PlayStation®Vita.

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Playstation Plus subscribers have a pretty good spread to look forward to for February. There is something for everyone here so I doubt you’ll feel hard done by with this month’s selection. I will say this though, I’m jealous of anyone with a PS3 as Persona 4 Arena is not only the continuation of the beloved Persona 4 story but also an incredible fighting game. I’ll be taking donations of PS3s if anyone feels they need to send theirs to a new home.

Games With Gold

Hand of Fate (XBO) Feb 1-29 – Beyond the thirteen gates at the end of the world, the game of life and death is played. Draw your cards, play your hand, and discover your fate. Hand of Fate is a hybrid roguelike/action-RPG/deck builder, in which the player builds a set of cards into a deck, which is then used to deal out the dungeon floors through which they adventure. Upon entering a combat, all of the cards the player has collected fly into their hands as fully modelled 3D assets, and combat begins.

Styx: Master of Shadows (XBO) Feb 16 – March 15 – Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements taking place in a dark fantasy universe. Guide the goblin assassin Styx through the vertical and multi-layered Tower of Akenash, home to the World Tree, source of the Amber – a powerful and magical golden sap – prowling through the shadows with aide of a host of special abilities refined throughout Styx’s 200 years of history.

Sacred Citadel (XBO/360) Feb 1-15 – Sharpen your axe, string your bow, brew your potions! Ancaria needs heroes like you. Grab your friends to join the resistance! The once peaceful land of Ancaria is in grave danger. The evil Ashen empire has enslaved its population and is using the orc-like Grimmoc to wipe out the Seraphim, who swore to protect it. In order to defeat the empire you will have to prove yourself as a warrior by riding terrifying mounts, acquiring earth shattering skills and looting powerful weapons and valuable treasures. Grab your friends and join the resistance!

Gears of War 2 (XBO/360) Feb 16-29 – The highly anticipated sequel to a blockbuster action game and one of the most popular Xbox 360 games in history. “Gears of War 2” picks up six months after the events of “Gears of War,” and thrusts players back into a harrowing story of human kind’s ongoing battle for survival against the nightmarish force of underground creatures known as the Locust Horde. Players continue as Marcus Fenix, a reluctant war hero and leader of Delta Squad, and are taken on a journey of survival, loss and retribution.