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I have to say, I appreciate games that let us know what they’re all about upfront. These days, the industry revels in adding subtitles to subtitles, but there’s something to be said for simplicity, grace, and handsome elegance. That in mind, DEATH RALLY. It’s a rally in which everyone dies. Constantly. Beautiful. It is, of course, a remake of Remedy’s top-down classic with a new paint job and a few tweaks under the hood, which probably explains why it’s not called, say, Race Carr’s Armenian Fastdrive. Also, it’s free this weekend. Huzzah!

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Death Rally v1.00.20.064 release notes:

* Several bug fixes for multiplayer matchmaking.
* Bug fix for weapon and car unlocks.
* Steam leaderboards are working.

Remedy Entertainment's strange, live-action video series celebrating the PC release of Death Rally has concluded with one last video, filled with awkward dance moves and lots of fire. Now available on Steam, Death Rally is on sale until August 10 for the promotional price of $6.99 - down from $9.99.

Ryan and Jeff love it when a plan comes to shareware, then to iOS, and then back to the PC.

Superb acting and expert testimonials are the highlights of this Death Rally trailer. In development by Remedy, the makers of Alan Wake, the top-down racing game will head to PC on August 3.

Oh Remedy, how we missed you during those few years when you just stopped and absolutely didn’t make any games on anything ever. Perhaps you traveled to the furthest corners of the world in an attempt to find yourself. Maybe you struggled with a crippling addiction to some illicit substance and became embroiled in an inspirational struggle to reclaim your own life. Maybe I just accidentally reverse-engineered the plot to Max Payne 3. Regardless, we’ll probably never know exactly what you were up to, but – with Alan Wake, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, and now a remake of top-down sunshine-and-rainbows racer Death Rally – it’s good to have you back. Details and one of the more bizarre announcement trailers I’ve ever seen after the break.

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If you've been waiting to check out Remedy's successful racer, Death Rally, now is probably the time to do it. The car-combat title is currently free on the Apple App Store. It's only free for "a limited time" however, so get it while the gettin's good.

Remedy is also giving away an iPad via the Death Rally Facebook page. To enter the giveaway, users have to simply "like" Death Rally on Facebook. You should probably actually try the game first, of course. Not that we're suggesting anyone would ever "like" something dishonestly.

After a preliminary launch in Canada earlier this year, Death Rally is now available on Android worldwide (a bit later than expected). Android users can grab Remedy's little racer that could from Google Play for the reasonable price of no dollars. Should you desire, upgrades and the like are available via in-app purchases.

Check out Death Rally's device requirements after the break.

Remedy's downloadable darling Death Rally is pulling off the iOS highway and heading for Android country. A preliminary launch goes down in Canada today, ahead of Death Rally's planned worldwide release in March.

Death Rally boasts 4 million users on iOS in addition to featuring one of our own as an opponent, Mike Schramm. And now Android users will finally get a chance to de-pimp (un-pimp?) Schramm's ride by downloading the free app next month, which sports all of the flashy rims and gigantic spoilers of its iOS counterpart.

Alan Wake wasn't the biggest hit at retail. Developer Remedy needed to refill its coffers after that expensive project. Death Rally achieved just that, recouping its own development costs in three days and going on to build an audience of millions.

A new Forbes feature details just how Remedy got Death Rally to take off. The developer spent only $10,000 on marketing, the article notes -- $5,000 on PR, and $5,000 on a FreeAppADay offer. Two months later, the price dropped to $0.99, at which point the game hit a worldwide #1 on the App Store.

Then the game went free, and any losses have been offset by in-app purchases.

The rest of the story is familiar for iOS hits -- frequent updates and expansions, and a potential Android release. Remedy EVP Aki Järvilehto told Forbes that he estimated Android gamesto generate roughly 30% of the revenue of the same iPhone game.

In a recent interview Remedy Entertainment 's Oskari Häkkinen mentioned that the company's iOS experiment, Death Rally, has moved 1.8 million units. The game launched early last year, with Remedy Managing Director Matias Myllyrinne telling us at E3 that the game recouped its development costs in three days and took eight months to develop.

"Death Rally was our first step into that direction, and I'm sure that we'll do something else in the future as well," Remedy creative director and writer Sam Lake told Edge.

Remedy is currently working on another smaller scale experiment with Alan Wake's American Nightmare, an XBLA-based pseudo-sequel to the critically acclaimed psychological thriller, which will finally hit PC early next year.

If you're starting to get tired of seeing the same old rallies and the same old deaths in Remedy's iOS racer Death Rally, a new update freshens up the game with a new track, the ice-covered "Eureka." The method through which you get new tracks is new, as well: you now collect track parts.

The latest update also brings in-app purchases to the Rally, in the form of a "Shadow Man" who can "help you progress faster." Sure, in-app purchases that make the game easier might be considered a slippery slope, but the Eureka track is literally a slippery slope. There are also some bug fixes and improvements, which you can read about after the break.

Death Rally returns for iOS devices!

Gameplay from the new Eureka update.