Back at the beginning of November 2025, we announced our ad-free Siliconera+ subscription would be back. Now that we’ve gotten things situated, we’d like to announce a free-trial. Starting immediately, anyone joining Siliconera+ will get a two month (60-day) free trial if recurrent payment is enabled. So if someone would join on November 17, 2026, then the $1.99 subscription fee would kick into effect on January 16, 2026. 

As a reminder, here is everything you get with a Siliconera+ subscription:

1. No ads appear on the site. 
2. Automatic monthly entries in our contests for a free game. Each month, we’ll give away one PC game to one random Siliconera+ subscriber. (The one for May 2026 will be the PC version of Gumball in Trick or Treat Land.) People who don’t subscribe are also able to enter via a form found in our free monthly newsletter, which you can sign up for at any time. The link to enter for free will appear in that email that shows up on the last Friday of every month.
3. Monthly survey access to help suggest future news and feature coverage. On the last day of each month, the members-only article that announces the free game contest for the next month and winner of the previous month’s game will include a survey that allows you to help weigh in on what we could cover. This will also include an open-ended “any other feedback” short answer portion for additional outreach. While we will still prioritize some topics we know bring in traffic (like Hatsune Miku, Sanrio, and some figure and anime stories), this will allow you to offer additional insight into things we might have otherwise missed.

We’d really love to expand what we offer and keep serving the community as we did before, and we hope the support from Siliconera+ will allow us to run more news, reviews, previews, interviews, and playtests each month. If you have any further questions, comments, or concerns, please let us know in the comments below. 

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