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EA's Origin occasionally offers certain games completely free as part of their 'On the House' promotion. As they've offered a few pretty good games in the past, I'd like some way to get notified when a new one is available so I don't miss out.

I'm not really looking for something to tell me about upcoming free games, unless it's from an official source, as many websites are happy to post erroneous or out of date information, or even just rumours.

I would prefer something like an RSS feed or email notification. The best solution I've found so far is to simply keep an eye on various gaming blogs and perhaps create a custom filter for 'On the House'. Is there a better solution?

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  • Concider the many deal sites that monitor for deals - hotukdeals is one that's mainly aimed at UK retail but they list online games too - add a filter for free + steam and you're away (or origin, psn, xbox live, etc).
    – djsmiley2kStaysInside
    Commented Sep 16, 2015 at 10:28
  • You could try turning on the "EA may email me about products news and events ..." setting under Account & Privacy -> Privacy Settings -> Contact Preferences. I don't know how many other e-mails this will generate though.
    – user86571
    Commented Sep 16, 2015 at 14:52
  • @RossRidge are you sure that includes info on the 'on the house' games?
    – Alex
    Commented Sep 16, 2015 at 18:53
  • Nope, but it would be odd if it didn't.
    – user86571
    Commented Sep 16, 2015 at 19:04

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Use a website monitoring tool (like these). I used Page Monitor for Chrome.

  1. Install the plug-in
  2. Visit the 'On the house' page
  3. Activate the plug-in by clicking the icon in the upper right
  4. Drag a selection box around just the free game image and it's title (you don't care about anything else changing)

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  1. Set an email to be notified at

Let the free games roll in.

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  • Really nice answer!
    – ave
    Commented Feb 19, 2016 at 0:44
  • Sadly this no longer works, VisualPing doesn't load the page correctly.
    – intgr
    Commented May 21, 2017 at 11:33
  • @intgr, The answer is general to using a website monitoring tool, with a specific example using VisualPing. Have you tried a different tool?
    – House
    Commented May 21, 2017 at 12:44

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