Yes, that's right - following some discussions over on our sister site The Icon Bar, we are now able to offer you copies of the Tom Cooper classic Ixion au gratis. The status of Ixion and a selection of other games were recently changed from commercial to freeware by their copyright holder Imparo, so we are greatly indebted to them for their generocity.

Ixion was originally released in 1992 by Software 42. The game provides a mix of action, role-playing, and puzzle solving, all with some quite tasty looking 3D graphics. The version available here should run fine on anything from a lowly ARM 2 running RISC OS 2 to the latest StrongARM running RISC OS Select, so unless you accidentally traded in your old Acorn while upgrading to an Iyonix you should have no problems at all (Although there have been reports of the music sounding different in-game to when it is played through a music player). Grab a copy of Ixion now from the free games section.

Expect a full list of games which have been freed of their commercial status to appear over the next few days.