The COVID-19 situation is not looking great, if we are all being honest. In Malaysia, if you have not known yet, is under a state sanctioned Movement Control Order (MCO). In other words, we are on partial lock down. Only essential services and businesses are allowed to operate. You are not even allowed a stroll in the public park; at least you are discouraged to with summons from the authorities. Even kids are not exempted from this ruling.

In other parts of the world as well, the authorities have started encouraging self-quarantines and social distancing. Our neighbouring country has already started issuing fines for those who are not in accordance to their guideline of social distancing. In other words, everyone is doing their parts in combating this global pandemic. Even F1 teams have committed their resources and expertise in break-neck, cutting edge engineering to combat the disease with something they call Project Pitlane as we have covered yesterday.

There are plenty of tips out there about staying sane and productive at home. There are also plenty of guides about staying healthy at home with exercises and what not. One thing that everyone says they have more time for now that they are at home is gaming. We are gamers here too, and we agree; I sunk more than 50 hours already in Death Stranding in the first week of our MCO alone, before realising that I need to be a little bit more productive and active.

One thing people do not say about gaming though is that it costs money. You need money to buy these games. Some of these games can get quite expensive too. Imagine buying all the AAA titles you can find out there today. That would empty your back account very quickly.

Still, Ubisoft, one of the biggest game developers in the world and running their own UPlay curated game marketplace is doing their part in the battle against COVID-19. One of the things that was encouraged for these few weeks is self-quarantine and staying at home. Ubisoft is all for that and that is why they are giving out free games starting from the 30^th of March 2020.

They start with ‘Rayman Legends’ from the 30^th March to the 3^rd of April 2020 onward. After that they will line up other games to giveaway at least for a few weeks. That is good news for everyone. All you need to do is sign up for Ubisoft’s UPlay account and download they UPlay app for desktop. For us gamers, that gives us even more reason to stay indoors and even lock our doors to keep playing all the games we have not finished. Now, excuse me while I finish Death Stranding and get to all my other games.