Help Us Pick Our New Pet!

By Free Ride Gamer Team on May 2nd, 2013

Our Amazing Designers Need Your Help to Create the Cutest Pet for us to keep at FreeRide Games!

Choose new pet

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Clean bill of health for FreeRide Games!

By Free Ride Gamer Team on June 30th, 2011

Who says? TRUSTe, that’s who! So if your anti-virus program has ever detected FreeRide Games as a threat, we’d like to assure you that the FreeRide Games Player and games are safe to download and we guarantee that our service is virus and spyware free.
All downloads from FreeRide Games use our TRUSTe certified installer and Player. Find our more

All downloads from www.FreeRideGames.com use our TRUSTe certified installer, EXEtender Player. TRUSTe is an important organization that partners with major online consumer portals and other industry leaders in order to develop safe download standards and certify downloadable consumer desktop applications. You can learn more about the Trusted Download Program.

All downloads from FreeRide Games use our TRUSTe certified installer and Player. Find our more

Our Security team works closely with many anti-virus software providers to make sure they support the latest versions of the FreeRide Games Player, so if your anti-virus program is detecting our Player or games as a threat, you might want to check whether you have the latest versions of both your anti-virus software and our Player.

Here are some handy Q&A’s you may find interesting in relation to this matter:

What is an anti-virus?
Anti-virus software is used to protect your computer from harmful programs by preventing them from being installed and removing them if they perform a harmful operation.

What is a Firewall?
A Firewall is a type of software that monitors the Internet traffic on your computer and blocks harmful programs from accessing your computer from the Internet.

What is a Security Pack?
A security pack is a bundle of security software from the same brand. A security pack may include an anti-virus a firewall and additional software as well.

How can I tell what security software is installed on my computer?
Go to your computer’s start menu –> Settings –> Control Panel –> Security center
Or
Press the “Start” key simultaneously with the “R” key –> write “control panel” and click ok –> Security center.

What is a “False positive”?
A “false positive” – also known as a false detection or false alarm – is when antivirus software identifies a non-malicious file as a virus.

False positives usually occur when an antivirus program detects a known virus string in an uninfected file. The file, while not infected with an actual virus, does contain a string of characters that matches a string from an actual virus.

A false positive can also occur when a program performs an action, which appears to the antivirus program to be a virus-like activity.

Why our software may mistakenly be detected as harmful?
Some security software may detect our games as a threat because of their copy protection system, or our Internet based delivery system. We work with many anti-virus software providers to ensure that they support the latest version of the FreeRide Games Player in order to prevent such threat detections. We assure you that our games and software are not harmful in any way.

 

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Thankful for Thanksgiving

By Michelle Casey on November 22nd, 2010

Thanksgiving


The Thanksgiving holiday is filled with many festive traditions embraced by millions of Americans each year.


So what is it that makes this holiday so special and loved?

Is it the travel?
Family members come from far and wide to be together on this holiday.  Believe it or not, Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day of the year!

Is it the food?
Traditional foods such as turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, gravy, sweet potatoes, cornbread, mashed potatoes pumpkin and pecan pies are popular Thanksgiving staples. Just typing these words is making my mouth water!  And if you like cooking, then making all of these scrumptious treats (or at the very least eating them) is also part of the Thanksgiving fun.

Is it spending time with family?
People make an effort on Thanksgiving to spend time with their loved ones, and often, it’s the only time during the year that families separated by long distances actually see each other.

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Game Review: The Magician’s Handbook 2 – Blacklore

By Free Ride Gamer Team on November 19th, 2010

People – grab your wands and let the Hidden Object magic begin as you play The Magician’s Handbook 2: Blacklore!

After saving Cursed Valley and becoming a pupil of the wise Wizard in The Magician’s Handbook: Cursed Valley, our hero was looking forward to a life filled with adventure and mystery. Unfortunately the Magician’s Handbook became useless and our hero returned home to his unexciting life. Now, two years, later the Magician’s Handbook is starting to come alive again with the voice of Corrigan, the fairy helper to the wizard and he desperately needs our hero’s help!


 
It’s now your job to help free the captured magicians and trapped fairies by stripping the extremely powerful and evil magician pirate Blacklore from his powers.

However, as our hero wasn’t born with magical powers, his aim is to collect enchanted objects, which will allow him to cast spells. The brilliant thing about the game is that the hidden object lists in the various chapters are randomized, so if you play the game or chapter again you will most likely have a different selection of objects.

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Game Review: Amazing Heists – Dillinger

By Free Ride Gamer Team on November 4th, 2010

Amazing Heists: Dillinger tells the exciting true story of the infamous John Dillinger, an American gangster and bank-robber who was at the height of his “career” in the era in which Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd and Bonnie & Clyde were on everybody’s “Most Wanted” list.

 

Dillinger robbed two dozen banks and four police stations and incredibly managed to escape jail twice! While doing time, he became resentful towards society and hooked up with other criminals, preparing himself to dive right back into criminal activities when he was released. The game tells the story of his life after being released from his eight and a half year prison sentence.

 

This hidden object game begins as you join the gang at their hide-out at Little Bohemia Lodge, looking at potential banks to rob and casing joints. Each level of the game has a different bank to rob but each bank robbery has the same structure:

  • Casing the Joint
  • Block the Egress
  • The Robbery and
  • Breaking the Bank.

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