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Welcome to www.kudos-network.co.uk. A website that I made to let you know that you can receive the very latest gadgets completely free! Sound to good to be true? Well it isn’t, and is in fact one of the easiest things that you’ll do in your life. All it takes is 3 easy steps, and you’ll receive your high value gadget for nothing, whether it be a free iPhone 3G, free iPod, free PS3, or XBox 360 Elite it will be free. Even the delivery costs are free, so you don’t have to worry about any exorbitant P&P fees. Follow the instructions on this blog, and you can get your hands on a free item of your choice.

To date, I have received in excess of £4500+ of freebies, either actual physical goods, or in Amazon Vouchers. My first gift was a Canon Digital Ixus 950IS from Freepay (see photo below), quickly followed by a 8GB Apple iPod Touch. Since then then the money that I’ve received has helped pay for a Panasonic 32″ HD LCD TV, a Panasonic HD Camcorder and a top of the range Laptop. Without the “freebie scene”, I wouldn’t have been able to buy these items because money is tight, especially since I was made redundant. Don’t let yourself become a victim of the credit crunch, so that it affects your families spending. Get on the freebie bandwagon, and you’ll not look back!

Here are some photo’s of my first free gifts:

A Canon Digital Ixus 950IS from Freepay

8GB Apple iPod Touch from Freepay

A £500 Amazon Voucher from the Kudosnetwork

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So How Do I Claim My Free Gift?
This is where the 3 easy steps come in.

1. Sign up for your free account at a site like consoles.kudosnetwork.co.uk or gifts.kudosnetwork.co.uk and complete one offer. I would highly recommend the free Love Film non-commital 2 week DVD rental trial offer, where you only have to receive at least one DVD to complete the offer.

2. Get the required number of family and friends to complete offers using your referral code (issued when you sign up). The number of people you require depends solely on the gift that you choose when you sign-up e.g. a free Wii Fit is only 4 referrals, whereas a XBox 360 Elite is 11, and a Sony PS3 is 14. Very easily obtainable, believe me!

3. Claim your free gift, which is delivered for free to the address that you registered with at the time of sign-up.

That is all there is to it. As I said earlier, 3 easy steps, and the gadget of your dreams will be in your hands absolutely free. Where else could you get a free Apple iPhone 3G, free Apple iPod Touch, Shuffle or Nano completely free?

The following trailer was released today, and mentions 2/15 as the official release date of Plants Vs Zombies for the iPhone.

Like most Popcap games, Plants Vs Zombies is available for the Mac and PC and currently can either be purchased directly from Popcap online or nearly any brick and mortar store that stocks PC games. You can expect a full review from us as soon as the game is released on the App Store.

Our final scores are not the product of any traditionally objective measures such as graphics or sound, but simply reflect the games we would most recommend to others.

5 Stars

Broken Sword – The remake of this 1996 point and click adventure was wonderfully brought to the iPhone. The story and all around high-quality production values of Broken Sword sucked us in. Whether you're an old fan of the original game, a newcomer to the series, or even someone who's never played a point-and-click adventure before, Broken Sword is a game with mass appeal that will draw you in. (Review, App Store)

Sword & Poker – Mix poker with a loose RPG and you get one of the most surprisingly compelling games from January. The variety of monsters, weapons and levels adds enough content to kept us coming back throughout the month. Even if the premise sounds strange to you, give the Lite a try. (Review, App Store, Lite)

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars – A great adaptation of a DS/PSP game, Chinatown Wars offers a level of depth rarely seen on the App Store. If you complete everything in game, playtime will need to be measured in days, not hours. The weapon targeting system can use improvement, but barely detracts from an otherwise phenomenal game. (Review, App Store)

4.5 Stars

Cogs – Cogs is a mechanical puzzler that challenges you to bring to life a series of increasingly complex machines by way of arranging sets of tiles, gears, pipes, and the like in such a way as to connect varying energy sources to their ultimate outlets across 50 different 2.5D and 3D environments It has become one of our favorite iPhone puzzlers. (Review, App Store)

The Deep – The Deep is all about exploring environments and finding important items that allow access to other parts of the map or give unique abilities to the main character. Unique level designs, the pleasant art, and that addictive, upgrade-focused exploratory gameplay kept us captive for hours (Review, App Store)

The rest of January game ratings can be seen in their respective rating categories (also found in the sidebar navigation): 5 Stars, 4.5 Stars, 4 Stars, 3.5 Stars, 3 Stars, and 2.5 Stars.

As always, we expect there will be some debate about relative scores, but keep in mind that everyone's personal ratings may vary based on individual tastes.

Tapulous has launched a new game for the iPhone called Riddim Ribbon. Tapulous is the company behind the popular TapTap Revenge games on the iPhone.

One of the most iconic characters in the Sega portfolio is Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is rumored to be coming to the iPhone this summer.

Hudson Entertainment just released an iPhone version of the classic turn based strategy game Military Madness (or Nectaris). The hex map strategy game predates Advance Wars and was originally released for the TurboGrafx-16 back in 1989. The game has since seen a number of revisions including last year's revival for WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network.

The iPhone version is an adaptation of Military Madness 2 and is said to take full advantage of the iPhone's touch control and graphics capabilities.

Military Madness: Neo Nectaris delivers a complete, turn-based strategy game from the masters of the genre. Through 50 levels of blistering tactical gameplay, you'll be wrapped up in every battle, every move, every step of the way.

We'll take a closer look at this game later this week.

App Store Link: Military Madness, $4.99

The objective of Riddim Ribbon is to guide a ball down a track, and tilt your device to follow a green line that moves left and right to one of the three songs you select on the main screen. When you stray from the track, the music begins to fade out until you're only hearing the faint backbeat to the song. Laid out on the green line are silver spheres to pick up, ramps to jump over, and hoops to jump through. All of these different pickups and obstacles are arranged so you're hitting them with the beat of the song, an experience that's actually pretty cool if you haven't played a similar racing rhythm game before.

As you're rolling down the tracks in Riddim Ribbon, you will be faced with both forks in the road and ramps that lead to secondary portions of track that allow you to mix the song by turning or jumping up on to the same portion of the song remixed by one of a number of different DJ's included in the game. By replaying individual songs and choosing different paths to take, you can come up with a number of different remixes of the same song.

Riddim Ribbon is a game that sounds really cool when you describe it, yet it somehow manages to be not that fun at all when you're playing it. The way the music is visualized is great, and the tracks are laid out very well to match each song. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long to get bored of the three included songs, and the tilt controls are frustrating.

Instead of like most racing games where you tilt to move right or left, then hold your device level straight to go straight, the amount you tilt directly translates to your position on the track. This causes you to spend most of your time holding your device at an awkward angle instead of making small tilting movements to steer as you're probably used to if you've played many racing games on the platform.

As mentioned previously, the way you interact with the music in the game is really neat but by default an announcer is almost constantly talking over it telling you how "dope" and "ill" your performance is along with announcing the many checkpoints on each song. It likely won't take you long to turn this off in the options.

Riddim Ribbon is a great idea for a game that ultimately is ruined by frustrating controls and gameplay which is too easy to get bored of.

App Store Link: Riddim Ribbon feat. The Black Eyed Peas, $2.99

We covered an early development video of this game, but at that time didn't know if this would ever become an official release, until now:

“We are very honored to be working with industry pioneer like Apogee Software to bring this groundbreaking game from the 90’s to platforms of the 21nd century,” said Yevegeniy Goyfman, co-founder of Mobilia Interactive. “It is exciting to be a major part of re-introducing classics like Rise of the Triad and allowing fans to re-live the experience, as well as share these true entertainment treasures with a new generation of gamers.”

Features include:

• Original game soundtrack.
• A number of customizable control schemes.
• Four full game episodes containing 32 super huge levels – up to one million sq. feet, and up to 16 stories high!
• Secret levels, hidden rooms, and other surprises.
• Play as one of five players, each with unique attributes and abilities.
• Look both up and down, up to 45 degrees, to see what is above and below.
• Ten unique, real digitized enemies (actual Apogee employees!)

A new gameplay video shows the it in action:

The game is due in "early 2010".