GameTap has officially gone live with its free service. Though those who sign up won’t be able to access all the games, it will give them a nice taste of what the service has to offer. The GameTap library will rotate for those who are participating in the free service, while those who pay will have access to all the games and without the advertisements.
Also up is the GameTap digital retail store. Here you can purchase not only new games, such as the much anticipated Tomb Raider: Anniversary (available today), but older titles as well. To see what content will soon be available go here.
More awesome than just the fact that there is a free service is the additions to the GameTap page. Now players can get a free account and have access to GameTap forums. The new version of the GameTap page feels much more community oriented. There are forums for all kinds of topics including one that is dedicated to setting up matches between players.
Don’t go getting your hopes up though that you’ll be playing all the best the service has to offer for free. The non-Gold GameTap service does not currently offer the Sam & Max games and it will not offer the new Tomb Raider game. For these my friend, you must go Gold.
While I can’t say that the pay service of GameTap is something that everyone will enjoy enough to feel that the monetary investment is worth it, I can say that it is something worth a try. If nothing else you should just check out the improved site and see what it’s all about. We’re pretty big fans so far, but we’re also big enough suckers to pay.
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