Sony just fresh from announcing a new online program that will look to compete with Xbox 360′s Summer of Arcade. The program, PSN PLAY which has been regarded as the first of an annual occurrence, will see the Japanese company releasing four downloadable PSN games and provide participants DLC for each game as well as new theme with each pre-order. To add the deal, if you purchase all four titles, Sony will be happy to give the fifth title absolutely free at no cost. The PSN promotion runs until September 20th, 2011 with pre-orders to kicks off on August 10th.

2011 lineup of games that will be involved in the promotion are Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition, Deathspank: The Baconing, Blood Rayne: Betrayal, and Renegade Ops. Purchasing all these four titles will get you a PSN voucher for the PayDay: The Heist.

With Payday: The Heist being the most tempting in this lineup, you’ll need to do the calculation on whether the other game’s worth of your interest or not. PSN Plus subscribers will get to enjoy a significant discount on the titles mentioned.

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Bored of using the same, dull fonts that come as standard with your operating system?

The chances are, your users are bored of them too! Typography is one of the most important ways in which you can pique a viewer’s interest in your website or other marketing materials – and yet many businesses ignore it, often because they presume that good fonts are too expensive.

But, while it is perfectly possible to spend hundreds of pounds on fonts, there is a wealth of high quality free alternatives available on the web. If you are looking for great free fonts, try some of the following resources.

1. The League of Moveable Type
A beautifully designed, straightforward site, The League of Moveable Type is dedicated to free, open source fonts. There are relatively few fonts on offer so far, but the site is growing all the time. Best of all, the fonts are ready for @font-face – meaning that you can use them on your website easily.

2. Font Squirrel
Font Squirrel boasts almost 700 font families, all of which are free for commercial use. You can search by popularity or by style, and you can also generate your own @font-face kits within the website.

3. DaFont
It might not look as pretty as its competitors, but DaFont still has a gret collection of fonts – many of which you won’t find anywhere else. Be careful, though, as not all of the fonts here are cleared for commercial use.

4. FontStock
FontStock specialises in free TrueType fonts. The site also gives you the opportunity to test the fonts inline, rather than having to download them to your computer first. Again, make sure you read the licence, as they do not all permit commercial use.

5. MyFonts
MyFonts claims to be the world’s largest collection of fonts and, while we can’t vouch for the accuracy of that claim, there is certainly a lot there! Not all of the fonts here are free, but the site allows you to search by licence in order to find what you need.

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Nintendo’s mea culpa to the people that bought the Nintendo 3DS at the original asking price continues. The maker of the Nintendo DS—the best-selling handheld video game system of all-time—were surprised when they discovered that its new system was doing poorly. Even though it had 3D! The lack of solid games was the most oft cited reason, and the dominant position of the DS made it tough to get people excited about the new 3DS. It also didn’t help that several of the features Nintendo had been touting for the new hardware, including Netflix, the Nintendo e-Shop and a web browser, weren’t available yet and no firm date of release dates were given. As far as product launches go, it was made of fail.

And then there was the price. $249.99 is a fairly reasonable price for a device that can do everything the 3DS claims it can do, but if there are no good games and some of the best features weren’t even out yet, that price tag becomes a bit harder to swallow. It also probably didn’t help much that Sony sort of kicked sand in Nintendo’s face by introducing the ridiculously more powerful and wi-fi friendly PlayStation Vita at a $249.99 price ($299.99 with 3G).

Not surprisingly the handheld did not sell well, and only 830,000 people have purchased the 3DS since launch. That number is a wee bit disappointing when compared with the Nintendo DS, which sold 144.6 million units as of December 2010, and a wee bit short of its projected sales of 16 million units in the first year.

So in response, Nintendo decided to try to win back the public buzz by significantly lowering the price of the 3DS to $170 as of August 12. But what about all the poor suckers that bought their supposedly fantastic and game-changing device (no pun intended) before that?

Before 830,000 began to wonder if they had been had, Nintendo decided to do what it could to appease them. Last week, the publisher/manufacturer/developer announced that it would be giving its loyal fans 20 free downloadable games from the Nintendo NES and Game Boy Advance library. Ten of those games were already announced, including five NES titles The Legend of Zelda, Balloon Fight, Donkey Kong Jr., Ice Climber and Super Mario Bros., and five GBA games including Mario vs. Donkey Kong, Metroid Fusion, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3 and WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame.

Nintendo claimed that the rest would be announced in the coming weeks, and the company appears to be good for it as two more of the titles have been announced via the website GamesRadar: Kirby and the Amazing Mirror and the mouthful of a title Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario 3 (which is a remake of the classic NES game, Super Mario Bros. 3). More titles will be announced in the coming weeks.

The free downloadable games is a good move from Nintendo, who have to know that the launch of the 3DS was muffed. There are several big name titles due out later this year, but the people that shelled out $249.99 for an incomplete and somewhat rushed product were left with a red face and figurative cartoon-like steam coming from their ears when their product loyalty and excitement for the 3DS was rewarded by paying $80 more and receiving substantially less than people buying it just a few months later. It also most be on Nintendo’s mind that with the with the Wii U coming next year, the company cannot afford to risk alienating some of their most loyal fans.

The 10 downloadable games from the NES library will be available on September 1 for early 3DS owners, and the titles will all be available to purchase for everyone shortly after. The 10 GBA games will be available by the end of the year.

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More than 20 children with Cub Scout Pack 79 of Chatham rode the bicycle trail from the Chatham Post Office to Scheels Sunday, July 31, 2011, to earn a year-star achievement award for participating in summer programs.

Scheels donated ferris wheel rides and game tokens to the Cub Scouts said Jeff Randall, community chair for Pack 79. “Amy Beadle, event coordinator for Scheels, was very helpful. The store provided us with water and gave us a place to cool down,” Randall said.

10-year-olds Austin Upchurch and Luke Boehler said the bicycle ride was tiring, but it led them to a shooting gallery, where they both earned a score of 150. “It was exhausting, but it was fun,” said Boehler. “The heat was bad. It was hard going up hill, but it was really fast down hill.”

“When we got here, we got pretty good scores in the shooting. Then we looked at the guns and the fishing rods,” Boehler added. The six-and-a-half mile trail ride started two years ago by former chairman of Pack 79, Lynn Bale, and cub master Rob Rapp.

“I’m an independent rider,” Bale said. “I enjoy the time alone in the saddle and it’s a good event for the kids.”Scouts can earn a year-star achievement award during the summer if they complete three of five summer activities, which also include bowling at Strike ‘N Spare in August and a campout at Henson Robinson Zoo in September.

Activities that have already been held were a swimming outing and dinner at Island Bay Yacht Club and a Memorial Day flag placement ceremony at Camp Butler National Cemetery.

Bob Croteau of Springfield, who participated in the ride with his sons, Ryan, 10, and Rene’ “Regie”, 9, said his family was going to make the ride back home as well. “We didn’t have to burn an carbon to get here,” Croteau said. “We’ll be riding home to Iron Bridge Road, too.”“We ride our bikes to Chatham for lunch a lot. It’s a good way to burn off extra energy.”Boy Scout troops 310 and 97 were liaisons for the summer activity.

Randall said the troop has a good backing of parental support for events like the trail ride, including the 10 adults that were on-hand to assist the Scouts that day. “We have a great group. No matter what den you’re in, we are a family. We can always depend on the den leaders and the parents.”

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Sparetime Recreation is inviting the public to bowl their first game for free in an attempt to break the current record of 923,948 bowling games played in a single day.

The 2011 National Bowling Week kicks off July 30 with the record-breaking attempt to occur on National Bowling Day, August 6. On August 6, anyone who downloads a free game coupon at www.gobowling.com may bowl one game for free and take part in the World Record breaking event. For their efforts, they will also receive a certificate to verify their participation.

“In Maine and across the United States, bowling has seen an incredible resurgence in popularity. We are proud to celebrate a great year for bowling and to thank all of the people who have supported our center," said Andy Couture, owner of Sparetime Recreation bowling centers in Augusta, Lewiston, and Waterville. “We are excited to join thousands of centers, from coast-to-coast across the United States, in attempting to set a new world record. We invite bowlers of all levels and talents to stop by and bowl for free as we try to help make history."

The World Record Event and National Bowling Week are sponsored by the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America (BPAA), Strike Ten Entertainment (STE), the International Bowling Pro Shop and Instructors Association (IBPSIA), the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) and the United States Bowling Congress (USBC).

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Penguin DT has released a new version of TAGAP 2, the sequel to TAGAP: The Apocalyptic Game About Penguins, a freeware game designed for Windows XP, Vista and 7, while it's proven to run smoothly on Mac with Wineskin. TAGAP 2 continues the story of cyber-penguins Pablo and Pedro, who now have joined forces. Following the events of TAGAP, our waddling heroes stumble on even bigger zombie penguin army, spearheaded by general Primo, the most epic cyber-penguin ever. TAGAP 2 expands the original action formula to new heights with variety of new gameplay features, diverse environments and bigger and more dynamic action. Pablo is more able than before tossing grenades, using new vehicles, utilizing electro-magnetism and being more bad-ass, while Pedro provides back-up via air strikes. If you have a game pad your friend can assume the role of Pedro and join you side-by-side in split-screen co-op play. A patch is also locally mirrored.

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In case you missed the news yesterday Nintendo are planning to cut the price of the 3DS portable console by around a third all across the world. According to EU regulations they're not allowed to set a price themselves but analysts are now predicting between £150 and £155 in the UK.
As we warned before there's likely to be a lot of variation in the price between different stores, with the price cut due to come into effect on 12th August. But if you buy and register a 3DS before that you'll be entitled to download 10 free NES games and 10 free Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games from the Virtual Console.

This is part of the new 'Nintendo 3DS Ambassadors' scheme, which you can find more details on at Nintendo UK's official website. The NES games will be available from 1st September and will include Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Jr., Balloon Fight, Ice Climber and The Legend of Zelda.
These will be available to ambassadors before they're released as paid-for titles, and if there's any change to them between now and when they go live for everyone else you'll still get the updated versions for free.

The Game Boy Advance titles are promised only before the end of 2011 and include the likes of Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Metroid Fusion, WarioWare, Inc.: Minigame Mania and Mario Vs. Donkey Kong, so again you're not being fobbed off with any old rubbish.

Nintendo are also insisting that they currently have 'no plans' to make the 10 Game Boy Advance games available to the general public now or in the future.

Most seem to agree this is actually pretty generous, but the financial markets have not reacted well to Nintendo's drastic measures. Nintendo's share price dropped 21 per cent yesterday, although that was more because of their financial results than anything else.

For the first time in the company's history they made a loss over the last three months - thanks to marketing costs (and a lack of sales) for the 3DS, falling sales of the DS and Wii, and the research & development costs of the imminent Wii U.

As a result former president Hiroshi Yamauchi saw half a billion dollars wiped off the value of his 10 per cent share in the company. Some reports even suggest that boss Satoru Iwata has taken a 50 per cent pay cut to appease investors, with other execs seeing their salaries reduced by 30 per cent and their bonuses reduced.

Although they'll likely never confirm it Nintendo are now thought to be making a loss on every 3DS sold, something they never usually do. If 3DS sells pick up this Christmas, and with a solid line-up of games on the way there's every reason to suspect they will, then all this will have been worth it. But if not, well… we wouldn't like to contemplate…

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Bingo Lottery have a new offer for their players, access to two new rooms and each offer free bingo games! It was purely by chance that we stumbled upon the new additions to the site and although not quite as impressive as some of the freebies on offer around the world of internet bingo, the daily free games at Bingo Lottery are definitely a bonus for the sites players. One of the two rooms is open to all players, deposited or not, whilst the other is reserved for players who have funded their account.

To access the free rooms at Bingo Lottery you simply have to login in to your account and visit the lobby. The no cost games can be found under the "Free Bingo" (as you would expect) and the schedule is as follows:

Free Bingo Funded - this room is open to depositing players only and is available from 3pm until 6.45pm. Games play every 15 minutes in this Bingo Lottery room and jackpots are £10 each and every game
Free Bingo All - this room is open to all players as the name suggests. It opens at 7am and closes at 7pm with a game every 8 minutes. All games in this room have prizes of £1

Of course Bingo Lottery isn't the only site to have these rooms available, you will find them at all sites on the Dragonfish network but we do have to ask, is this enough? To be honest whilst we are impressed that there is now more "free" stuff being offered by this and many other sites, there are rumours that the current £1 free bonus for registering with your financial details is set to end soon and the free bingo games are a replacement for the sign-up offer!

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