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It’s a kung fu kind of week on the Epic Games Store, thanks its latest headline freebie: developer Sloclap’s acclaimed Sifu, which arrives alongside several other free titles for mobile and PC.

In total, Epic is giving away three free games across PC, Android, and iOS this week, and they’ll be sticking around for the next seven days. The full list looks like this:

Sifu (PC)
Deliver At All Costs (PC)
Gigapocalypse (PC/mobile)

Sifu’s launch trailer from back in the day.Watch on YouTube

Sifu’s the biggie, of course, even if it’s not the first time it’s been free on the Epic Games Store. For those unfamiliar, it takes players on a cinematic rampage of revenge through the streets of China. It’s a game of pulverising, cathartic martial arts action, with the twist being its protagonist gets steadily older each time they’re resurrected by their magical pendant upon death, despite the world around them staying the same.

“An elegant martial arts meditation on temporality and self-possession”, is what Eurogamer contributor Edwin Evans-Thirwell said in his Sifu review back in 2022, and given all the improvements it’s seen since then, it’s well worth the (free) entry fee.

Epic’s other two PC freebies this week come in the form of the newly released Deliver At All Costs – a game of bizarre delivery challenges across highly destructible environments, set somewhere in the 1950s – and Gigapocalypse. This latter title sees players customising their own giant monsters, Kaij&umacr; style, and then setting out on a mission of mass destruction developer Goody Gaweworks describes as “loud, punk, metal, anarchy and a lovely homage to the game and movie classics.”

Gigapocalypse is also currently free for iOS and Android via Epic’s mobile store, but you’ll need to be in the EU to access it on Apple devices.

All the above are available to download and keep via the Epic Games Store right now and will remain so until next Thursday, 29th May. After that, a fresh batch of (still mysterious) freebies will take their place.

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If long-time The Last of Us fans have learned anything watching HBO’s second season, it’s that knowing something is coming doesn’t make it any less painful to watch a second time. The live-action adaptation of The Last of Us Part II has been divisive (I fucking hated it, personally), but it’s still putting everyone through the emotional wringer by recreating the same deaths and carnage featured in the PS4 game. As such, those who have played the game know what to expect in an upcoming episode when they see moments they recognize in the previews, and that means Last of Us veterans are bracing themselves for the finale because they know something painful is coming.

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HBO has released a brief 40-second preview of the finale ahead of its premiere on Sunday, and it includes a voiceover from Jesse (Young Mazino) about the war between the militaristic Washington Liberation Front and the cult-like Seraphites. He says he’s “not dying out here” in the middle of the Seattle warzone. But the irony is that homeboy probably is dying out here, and in the next episode.

In the preview, we see a clip of Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Jesse running up the aisle of the theater that the group has made into their home base while in Seattle. We don’t get any context as to what the pair is running toward, but anyone who’s played The Last of Us Part II knows what’s coming.

Jesse is another unfortunate casualty in Ellie and Abby’s revenge tour, and for a game that loves to drag out character deaths, his end is pretty quick, but no less brutal. As he and Ellie run into the theater lobby, Abby, who found the group’s hideout, shoots Jesse right in the face, killing him instantly. Based on the preview, it looks like this scene is in the finale, unless the show decides to handle Jesse’s fate differently. The show has mostly followed the core events of The Last of Us Part II, albeit with some annoying script embellishments and misguided structural changes, but if Ellie’s horse Shimmer can avoid her violent fate, maybe Jesse can, too? Either way, fans are preparing themselves for the emotional damage.

The Last of Us’ season finale will premiere on Max at 9 p.m. Eastern Sunday, May 25.

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