In recent days AMD, NVIDIA and HTC have initiated three new free game campaigns in an attempt to attract attention of gamers to their hardware. AMD will add a free copy of the latest Hitman game to its Radeon RX 470 graphics adapters, as well as Civilization VI and Doom to those who buy a Radeon RX 480 video card and Intel’s Core i5-6600K CPU. Meanwhile NVIDIA has teamed up with HTC to bundle three free virtual reality titles (including Serious Sam VR) to those who buy a qualifying GeForce GTX 1060/1070/1080 along with the HTC Vive VR headset.

AMD Game Bundles: Civilization VI, Doom, Hitman

AMD will include a voucher for Hitman The Complete First Season on Steam as a bundle with any Radeon RX 470 video card purchased from an eligible retailer or a PC featuring the adapter from a qualifying system integrator. The campaign runs globally (with exception of China and Japan) and lasts until February 22, 2017, or when AMD depletes its supply of codes.

AMD has also teamed up with popular retailers to provide Steam codes for Doom and Sid Meier’s Civilization VI to those who buy an Intel Core i5-6600K CPU and a select AMD Radeon RX 480 video card from MSI (in the U.S.) or Sapphire (in Europe) from a participating retailer. In the U.S., you must buy from Newegg and the campaign ends on December 31 or when AMD runs out of codes. In Europe, the list of participating retailers includes Overclockers UK, LDLC and CSL and the campaign runs through January 15 or while supplies of codes last.

AMD's Civilization IV, Doom and Hitman Campaigns
Hardware Game Campaign End Date
AMD Radeon RX 470 Hitman (Complete Season) February 22, 2017
AMD Radeon RX 480 Civilization VI January 15, 2017
MSI Radeon RX 480
Intel Core i5-6600K
(Newegg only)
Doom, Civilization December 31, 2016
Sapphire Radeon RX 480
Intel Core i5-6600K
(OcUK, LDLC, CSL only)
Doom, Civilization January 15, 2017
AM3+ Motherboard for $99+ Doom January 27, 2017

Keep in mind that AMD is also bundling Doom with select AM3+ motherboards priced over $99, as well as Civilization VI with all Radeon RX 480 graphics adapters. As usual, more information about all the current AMD promotions is available from the AMD Rewards web site.

NVDIA Game Bundles: Raw Data, Serious Sam VR, and Sports Bar VR

In a bid to lure early adopters of VR into their respective camps, NVIDIA teamed up with HTC to provide free game codes for Raw Data, Serious Sam VR, and Sports Bar VR to those who buy a GeForce GTX 1060/1070/1080 graphics card (or a PC featuring one of the GPUs) along with an HTC Vive from a participating retailer or system integrator. The campaign runs globally (except China) through January 31 or while supplies last. At press time, the list of NVIDIA’s partners for the campaign in the U.S. included Newegg and Microsoft Store, but NVIDIA said that the number of participating partners would increase over time.

NVIDIA's VR and Watch_Dogs 2 Campaigns
Hardware Game Campaign End Date
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060/1070/1080 Raw Data
Serious Sam VR
Sports Bar VR
January 31, 2017
Desktop/Laptop Featuring GeForce GTX 1060/1070/1080
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/1080 Watch_Dogs 2 December 19, 2016
Laptop Featuring GeForce GTX 1070/1080

It is also noteworthy that NVIDIA is still bundling Watch_Dogs 2 with select GeForce GTX 1070/1080 video cards and laptops carrying mobile versions of the graphics processors through December 19. Unfortunately, the two offers may not be combined and you are not going to get four free games with one huge purchase.

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Sources: AMD, NVIDIA.

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  • TheFlyingSquirrel - Thursday, December 15, 2016 - link

    People building new gaming PC's in the short term are going to be using an Intel Processor. Zen's not here yet so that just leaves people with either AMD or Nvidia for the GPU. Get a free good game with Intel+AMD is a nice hook rather than Intel+Nvidia but no extra game
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  • Samus - Friday, December 16, 2016 - link

    Keep in mind AMD and Intel are much closer partners than NVidia and Intel. If AMD wants to push VR, they have nothing to lose partnering up with Intel to sells PC's with Intel CPU's and AMD graphics cards.

    As the OP said, this is a realistic move on AMD's part. Even if they gave people a bundle of free games that came close to the value of an AMD CPU, most people aren't going to go for it because as it is right now AMD has such a terrible reputation in the CPU market that nobody except for diehard fans would go for it. Sure some people could be swayed on price but anybody shopping for high end GPU's or VR aren't concerned about price.
  • tamalero - Friday, December 16, 2016 - link

    Most of these Nvidia bundles are bullshit.
    I was engaged into a game of "find who is responsible for your game" betwen different groups when I purchased a 1070 thru amazon... amazon sent me to amazon mexico, amazon mexico sent me to nvidia, nvidia blamed amazon, yet they ended sending me to a third party provider.. who claimed that I should contact amazon.. amazon MEX said they wont provide codes (which is bs again, since amazon has given me codes of many games before.. be promotionals, dlcs etc..) then sent me yet to a another provider which said my purchase "did not apply".
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    I was really disappointed with Serious Sam The Last Hope in VR. There is no movement. You are stuck standing in place like a glorified shooting gallery. Oculus Store was nice enough to return my money for that purchase. Also be aware there is another VR version of Serious Sam called the First Encounter which to my understanding is a port of the original Serious Sam for VR. Reading through the Forums seems to indicate it's still half baked though. I'm waiting for some real VR titles to come out like the latest Doom and Fallout 4.
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