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To celebrate the upcoming launch of Modern Combat 5: Blackout, Gameloft is running a special Time Limited Event in its Gold Award-winnning arcade racer Asphalt 8: Airborne.

The race takes place on an MC5-modified Venice track, which now features explosions, collapsing buildings, and lots and lots of helicopters.

There's also a prize. You can win a free copy of Modern Combat 5: Blackout if you do really well at driving around a city being destroyed by a fictional war.

If you think you're up to it you can grab Asphalt 8 from the Google Play Store [download] and the App Store [download] right now for nothing.

Modern Combat 5: Blackout is out July 24th. Or Thursday, if you like to do things the easy way.