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Welcome to Freeware Friday, a weekly column showcasing excellent games that you can play free of charge!

We don't cover free-to-play games often on Freeware Friday, generally because they are bad. This column is, after all, for good freeware games. However, every once in a while, a game comes out of the blue and clocks us across the face with its quality, regardless of transaction status. League of Legends is such a game, and while it is not completely free (it sports microtransactions), it's excellent and offers free players enough variety to sidestep the problem of most free-to-play games. It is also, arugably, the best of the Defense of the Ancients (DotA) clones.

Those looking forward to the new pseudo-MMO League of Legends now have more to look forward to. Developer Riot Games has unveiled two new heroes for players to command, including Rammus the Armordillo (pictured above) and Anivia the Cryophoenix. Rammus falls into the classic tanking archetype, while Anivia is more of a damage-dealing caster.

Along with the announcement of the new heroes, Riot Games also announced that they would be giving an exclusive skin for Rammus the Armordillo to all League of Legends closed beta testers as a reward for all their hard work. The closed beta is still ongoing, but it was not indicated whether this would be just for current testers or for all testers that participate in the closed beta. Full release regarding the two champions after the cut.