Beat The Coronavirus Blues With Free Movies Magazines Audiobooks Video Games And More

id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Crackle is home to hundreds of movies you cánido stream for free -- and some of them are actually worth seeing!Crackle For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website.Welcome to our new abundantly cautious coronavirus reality, in which social distancing is the new normal and everything is closed or canceled. Already bored? Have no fear, I've rounded up a bunch of ways you cánido entertain yourself, all of them free. (You will, however, need things like a phone or tablet, a TV, an internet connection -- and possibly a yoga mat.) I'll keep this updated in the coming weeks with new offers and services; find the latest additions at the bottom. Free ordenador gamesWorld War Z is free for you and me.Epic Games Tired of bite-size phone games? This is the perfect time to reconnect with (or discover) computer games, which perro deliver richer, deeper experiences. If nothing else, you'll love playing on a bigger screen. Here's what you cánido get absolutely free right now: Drawful 2: A super-fun Pictionary-like group game from the folks behind the beloved You Don't Know Jack series. The object is to sketch a picture on your phone or tablet based on a text prompt, and then everyone gets to vote on what the picture represents. And because we're all social-distancing right now, you cánido play this not only at home with family, but also remotely with far-flung friends and relatives. The free version is available vía the Mac Aplicación Store and Steam; Nintendo Switch owners cánido buy it for just nueve cents.Figment: A whimsical action-adventure game that normally sells for $ 20. It's free from Epic Games, provided you have an Epic account and accompanying software client (also free). You just need to claim it before April 2; then it's yours to keep forever.GOG is giving away a whopping 27 PC games, including classics dating back to mil novecientos setenta y nueve (!) and a playable prologue of the brand new city-building sim Builders of Egypt. All titles are DRM-free and compatible with Windows; some are also available for Mac or Linux.  Rayman Legends: Grab this from Ubisoft between now and April tres and it'll be yours to keep forever. This beloved platformer normally sells for $ 30. It requires a Ubisoft account and the Uplay client software, both of which are free as well.World War Z: A cooperative shooter for you and up to three friends. Mow down wave after wave of zombies in this game inspired by the movie inspired by the book. This is another Epic freebie; same requirements apply.Read more: Best gaming notebooks for 2020CNET Coronavirus UpdateKeep track of the coronavirus pandemic.Free streaming TV and moviesRevisit classic Bond, for free, on Pluto TV.Pluto Just want to veg out in front of the TV? Don't blame you one bit. While I think Hulu for dólares americanos 6 a month is arguably the single best streaming deal you can get, here are some other options that won't cost you a dime: Start with this list of diez totally free movie streaming services. Over at Pluto, Office DESCARGAS GRATIS for example, you cánido find an entire channel of James Bond movies, while Kanopy is home to notable largos like Captain Fantastic, Midsommar and The Great Buster: A Celebration. Next up: The best free TV streaming services.IMDb TV just added the first five seasons of Schitt's Creek to its lineup. Previously you had to subscribe to Netflix if you wanted to watch that increasingly beloved espectáculo. While you're there, check out Friday Night Lights and The Middle in their entirety.Good news for parents: Amazon is now offering a bunch of free streaming kids espectáculos, including Arthur, Caillou and The Dangerous Book for Boys. You don't need an Amazon Prime subscription to view these, just an Amazon account.I wouldn't call this the feel-good espectáculo we need right now, but if you don't have an HBO subscription and want to check out a notable series, the Roku Channel is currently offering Westworld season 1 for free. It's also available vía the Apple TV aplicación, even if you don't have an Apple TV Plus subscription. What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: I don't hold this "middle child" Trek series in such high regard as most Trekkies (I always preferred Voyager; don't @ me), but I was definitely interested in seeing the new documentary, What We Left Behind, when it debuted last year. You cánido rent it for dólares americanos 2- dólares americanos 3 from nearly anywhere, but it's now streaming free on Tubi. I'm only about treinta minutes into it; once you get past the weird introduction, the interviews are pretty good.Here's a freebie you don't have to "wrestle" with: Wireless carrier Cricket is offering a free tres-month subscription to the WWE Network when you provide your name, e-mail address and phone number. The subscription info will be delivered to you vía e-mail. The offer is good for new and past subscribers only; you can't apply it to an existing subscription.  It's still unknown whether we'll get a delayed dos mil veinte baseball season or none at all. But if you need your baseball fix (and watching some sports -- any sports -- sounds pretty great right now), here's good news: MLB.tv is offering free streaming of dos mil dieciocho and dos mil diecinueve games when you log into or create an account.  It's not Rick and Morty, but Adult Swim is offering the entire Samurai Jack series free to stream vía its website and apps.Starting April 2, the UK's National Theatre will stream a different play every Thursday. You can find the streams on the National Theatre at Home YouTube channel. First up: One Man, Two Guvnors, starring James Corden.Read more: Westworld season 3 review  Free exercise classesThe Peloton aplicación gives you full access to all Pelotón fitness content, but for a much lower price ( dólares americanos 13 a month) than bike owners pay. And right now it's free for 90 days.Rick Broida/CNETOK, maybe it's not entertainment, but it's definitely good for you. With many gyms now closed indefinitely, many services have stepped up with free home-workout options. Echelon is offering a free noventa-day trial of the FitPass app, which, like Peloton's (below), offers a wide variety of live and on-demand classes. You'll find cardio and core workouts, pilates, Zumba and so on. The app is available for Android and iOS. If you choose to continue after the trial, FitPass costs $ 20 per month.Peloton is offering a free 90-day trial of the Peloton aplicación. Available for Android, iOS and Amazon Fire TV, it provides unlimited access to a wealth of live and on-demand classes: treadmill and outdoor running, strength training, high-intensity interval training, yoga, meditation and so on. If you choose to continue after the trial, the subscription costs $ 13 per month.This might be the perfect time to take up yoga, one of the greatest stress-relievers ever. You perro find countless free beginner classes -- and plenty for more experienced yogis as well -- on YouTube. I recommend starting with Yoga With Adriene, which has literally hundreds of videos for all skill levels (and all categories, like Yoga for Bedtime and Yoga for Wrist Pain). While you're at it, you can search YouTube for meditation classes -- also not exactly entertaining, but a useful way to pass the time and keep stress at bay. Read more: Gym closed? Here are some of the best home workout optionsFree magazinesRBDigital is home to lots of magazines you perro download and read for free on your ordenador, tablet or phone.RBDigital Call me old-fashioned, but I still enjoy reading magazines: Cook's Illustrated, Family Handyman, Men's Health, Reader's Digest, Wired and so on. I'm not a paid subscriber to any of them; instead, I use RBDigital, a service offered by my public library, to read all those titles on my phone and tablet. The selection varies, so you may not have access to all the same titles I do, but you should definitely investigate using RBDigital to get free magazines from your library. Meanwhile, DiscountMags just started offering free digital single issues of dozens of magazines. These aren't subscriptions; you can pick and choose as many individual titles as you want. Once you redeem them, you'll use the Zinio app to read. Free ebooks and audiobooksHere's an example of one of the great ebooks you may be able to check out from your library. (Seriously, read this one, it's awesome.)Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNETSpeaking of libraries, yours can probably hook you up with a selection of free ebooks and audiobooks as well. Right now, for example, I'm using an app called Libby (formerly OverDrive) to read a novel by Richard Russo, and before that I used it to alisten to Martin Short's thoroughly entertaining autobiography I Must Say (read by the author). You may have to wait a bit before the title you want becomes available, so add a bunch to your queue so you always have something ready to go. Meanwhile, good news for parents: Amazon is now offering a bunch of Sesame Street libros electrónicos for free. As you might expect, they're all Kindle editions, so you'll need a Fire tablet or any any device capable of running the Kindle aplicación. Read more: Best e-reader for 2020Free virtual museum toursAnyone for a virtual tour of the American Museum of Magic?Google How about a little culture in the mix? Google's Arts Launchers & Shutdown DESCARGAS GRATIS Culture collection can take you on virtual tours of hundreds of museums around the world, from Japan's Nagoya City Art Museum to Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC. Within each you may find one or more "stories" you perro browse. You perro sort the collection alphabetically or view them on a map. One particularly great example: Posters from History's Greatest Illusionists at the American Museum of Magic.  Free night at the operaThe New York Metropolitan Opera will stream a different encore Live in HD performance every day. Each performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. ET (4:30 p.m. PT) and remain available for streaming for veinte hours. You can watch the streams in a browser, or use one of the Met Opera on Demand streaming apps available for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku devices. (Take note, however, that the site is noting unprecedented high demand, so there could be delays or glitches.) Free musicAmazon Music HD aims to challenge the high-fidelity likes of Tidal and Qobuz. Here's your chance to try it free for 90 days.Amazon Tired of the same old Pandora playlists and the ads that frequently interrupt them? Several services are offering free premium subscriptions. 90-day Amazon Music HD subscription: Wait, Amazon Music has an HD option? I honestly had no idea. And what does "HD" orinan? In this case higher bit rates, otherwise known as better sound quality. Spotify maxes out at a bit rate of trescientos veinte kilobits per second, while Amazon HD delivers up to 850Kbps for its cincuenta-million song library -- and up to a whopping tres,730Kbps for millions of songs in "Ultra HD" format. This extended trial is available only for new Amazon Music subscribers. After that, you'll get billed at the regular rate of $ 14.99 a month (or dólares americanos 12.99 if you're an Amazon Prime subscriber) unless you cancel. Sirius XM free streaming: Between now and May quince, SiriusXM is offering unlimited free streaming through its web portal and mobile aplicaciones. Normally $ 13 monthly, the plan includes not only all the regular channels, but also Howard Stern. Read more: Best music streaming: Spotify, Apple Music and more, compared    Free audiobooks for kids and teensAudible is offering free streaming audiobooks for kids of all ages.Audible To help keep out-of-school kids occupied, Audible is offering a big selection of streaming audiobooks at no charge. You'll find the likes of Winnie-the-Pooh, Anne of Green Gables, White Fang, various Perceptible Originals and even some modern titles like Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. The service just made the first Harry Potter book available as well.There are books available in different languages as well, including French, German and Spanish. For the moment it looks like a browser is required for this; the streams don't seem to be available within Audible's apps. There's also no login or even registration required, and I was able to listen on my phone vía my mobile browser.Free audiobooks for adultsScore some great Perceptible Originals for free.Audible Audible is now offering a bunch of Perceptible Originals for free as well, most of them rated four stars or higher. Here's the list: The Absolute Brightness of Leonard PelkeyAn Act of GodEvil EyeFeeding the DragonThe Half-Life of Marie CurieProof of LoveSakina's RestaurantNeedless to say, you'll need an Perceptible account to access these. Free Crayola coloring pagesNeed some new pictures for the kids to color? Crayola is offering a wealth of free-to-download (and print) coloring pages, all of them organized by season. Free tres months of guitar lessons from FenderThis has "Rick Broida" written all over it: I own a guitar and had every intention of learning to play, but for various reasons just never got going. Now, with ample extra time on my hands and Fender's three-month subscription freebie, I perro take lessons on-line. The site offers classes for acoustic and electric guitars and ukulele. Note that although a credit card is not required, this promotion is limited to the first cien con cero sign-ups. Other ideasWhat else perro we do with all this stay-at-home down-time? Some suggestions: bake bread, organize the junk drawer, start a new hobby, revisit an old hobby, break out the board games. (Need a new one? Walmart currently has Ticket to Ride: London for just $ 9, nearly dólares americanos 11 off the regular price.) In other words, use this time to unwind, disconnect and hopefully find some calm. Read more: Best dos-player board games for 2020  Now tell me your ideas for staying busy and entertained -- ideally without spending any (or much) money. 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