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Joymax, a developer and publisher, has announced that it has launched the open beta testing period for Silkroad-R, specifically designed to attract newcomers to the franchise and allow them to enjoy an experience that is free-to-play.The beta was so successful that the developer quickly added the Gobi server to keep ... |
29 December 2011
13:51 GMT |
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The developers working on the free-to-play MMO World of Tanks have announced that there are more than 18 million gamers playing the game at the moment.The game was initially launched in Russia on August 12, 2010 and since then it has been also released in Asia, North America and Europe, with the Guinness certifying t... |
22 December 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Publisher GamerFirst has announced that APB Reloaded, the action oriented MMO that was re-launched during last week, has managed to get more than 3 million registered players in less than seven days, mostly because of its use of the free-to-play business model.
The company also revealed that APB Reloaded was the sec... |
16 December 2011
22:31 GMT |
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Publishers NCsoft and Gameforge have announced that their MMO Aion will be making the switch to the free-to-play business model in February 2012, allowing all interested players to download the full version of the game for free and then play it without any restrictions.The creators of the game have acknowledged that ... |
15 December 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that it has launched yet another update for its MMO DC Universe Online, called Season’s Greedings, which will see the game world invaded by a group of Orange Lanterns and their leader, Larfleeze.The group is made at Santa Claus (also sort of a superhero, isn’t he?... |
14 December 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Research firm Newzoo has put out a new report which shows that 84 percent of the United States gamers who are interested in science fiction themed MMOs are more interested in playing free-to-play games than in paying for subscription products.The report says that there are 14 million players who are engaged with game... |
7 December 2011
08:42 GMT |
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Dusty Welch, who was a senior vice president and the leader of publishing at Activision, has created a new games studio called U4iA Games, with the ultimate aim being to create a free-to-play and browser-powered FPS that will be more popular than the Call of Duty series.
Speaking about his new studio and his next pr... |
30 November 2011
02:29 GMT |
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Video game developer Riot Games has announced that it was ready to launch the second season of its eSports competition, with 5 million dollars (3.71 million Euro) offered in prize money for the best League of Legends player in the world.Season Two of the competition will introduce a number of new features, including ... |
23 November 2011
04:36 GMT |
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John Smedley, who is the Chief Executive Officer at Sony Online Entertainment, has announced that DC Universe Online, the superhero supported MMO that went free-to-play on November 1, has seen an increase of revenue of more than 700 percent since it no longer forced players to pay a monthly subscription.On Twitter Sm... |
22 November 2011
10:42 GMT |
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A new report from Niko Partners shows that six Asian emerging markets will generate more than 1 billion dollars (741.1 million Euro) in revenue for video game companies during 2015.Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore represent some of the fastest growing markets for games in the worl... |
22 November 2011
09:27 GMT |
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Video game publisher Atari has confirmed that its MMO Star Trek Online will be moving to the free-to-play business model on January 17 of next year, allowing all interested players to explore the entire game without paying any subscription.This is just the latest of high profile MMOs who are ditching the subscription... |
15 November 2011
10:13 GMT |
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It seems that when superheroes are not attractive enough for gamers all can be made right by making them free, as Sony Online Entertainment discovered after moving its DC Universe Online MMO to the free-to-play business model, allowing anyone interested to get into the game and experience the content for free.Lorin J... |
14 November 2011
14:01 GMT |
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A new report called the MMO Games Market Report from analysis firm Newzoo is showing that most of the MMO players in the United States are playing browser based experiences while also spending money on client based experiences.The report also shows that 47 percent of all MMO spending on the United States market, whic... |
10 November 2011
09:06 GMT |
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Video game publisher Sony has announced that it will be adding more servers and will develop the infrastructure supporting its MMO DC Universe Online in order to deal with the increase in player interest which followed the title's move to the free-to-play business model.John Smedley, who is the Chief Executive O... |
9 November 2011
13:31 GMT |
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South Korean video game publisher NCsoft has announced that it is working on a new game in the long running Lineage franchise, called Eternal: Twilight Resistance, which will use a new and improved combat system.The MMO will offer three classes to play around with, the standard warrior and mage and an exotic elementa... |
9 November 2011
09:28 GMT |
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The LEGO Group has announced that it will be closing down the MMO LEGO Universe on January 31, 2012, a little over one full year after it was initially launched.A statement from The LEGO Group says, “In spite of very positive player feedback and a large number of players in the free play zone, it has not been p... |
7 November 2011
15:11 GMT |
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John Smedley, who is the president of Sony Online Entertainment, has announced on Twitter that the MMO DC Universe Online has received more than 120,000 new players since the title made the switch to the free-to-play business model.The Twitter message reads: “wow. Over 120k PC registrations in 2 days for DCUO P... |
4 November 2011
11:10 GMT |
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Free-to-play MMO projects are all the rage these days, with developers reporting growing player numbers and higher revenue, but at least one leading MMO developer believes that subscriptions are still important.Speaking during an interview with Eurogamer, Mike Morhaime, who is the president of Blizzard, stated, &ldqu... |
28 October 2011
05:48 GMT |
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Markus Persson, the developer behind Minecraft, has revealed that his upcoming Scrolls video game will feature a monetization system which is close to other free-to-play titles, except that players will have to pay initially to get the game.It seems that those players who pay the initial cost will get new scrolls to ... |
25 October 2011
10:28 GMT |
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Dark Millenium Online, the Warhammer 40,000 based MMO, has seen a flurry of speculation lately and now a leading executive at THQ has said that the company is keeping its options open when it comes to the business model for the game.Speaking to Shacknews Danny Bilson, who is the leader of the core games division at p... |
17 October 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning might have launched with high hopes and talk of World of Warcraft slaying, but since then the game has lost players and seemed to be destined to be turned into a free-to-play project to get increase gamer numbers. At the GDC Online event Eugene Evans, who is the leader of the Mythi... |
14 October 2011
02:51 GMT |
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Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it has launched the fifth content update for its MMO DC Universe Online, called The Fate of the Fortress, allowing players to get their heroes next to characters like Superman, Lex Luthor and other superheroes as they deal with the threat posed by Brainiac.
This is the ... |
5 October 2011
09:03 GMT |
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City of Heroes, the superhero powered MMO from developer Paragon Studios and publisher NCsoft, has gone free-to-play and the two companies have put out a new batch of screenshots and a trailer showing off what players can access for free.Brian Clayton, the executive producer at Paragon Studios, said, “Our fans ... |
28 September 2011
08:20 GMT |
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John Smedley, who is the president of Sony Online Entertainment, has announced that the upcoming PlanetSide 2 MMO will adopt the free-to-play business model, allowing interested gamers to experience most of the game universe and mechanics without paying a monthly subscription.The executive has used the PlanetSide Uni... |
13 September 2011
16:41 GMT |
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I can remember writing the news story about The Lord of the Rings Online going free-to-play and wondering how long it will take before the Turbine made MMO is closed down and the business model again retreats to the peculiar games of the Far East.I also remember writing news about how well The Lord of the Rings Onlin... |
3 September 2011
02:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher Perfect World has announced that it plans to make the Star Trek Online MMO free-to-play before the end of the year, joining one of the most popular trends for the genre.
It's not yet clear how much of the game world players who chose not to pay will be able to access or what are the advan... |
2 September 2011
13:31 GMT |
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The press conference that publisher Electronic Arts held in Cologne at the Gamescom 2011 trade show sought to promote upcoming launches like Need for Speed: The Run and Battlefield 3 more than announce important new games.
But the company also talked about some new properties and one of the more interesting ones i... |
17 August 2011
03:50 GMT |
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LEGO Universe, the massive multiplayer online game built around bricks, has launched its free-to-play content, allowing all players who are interested in a sneak peek at the experience to jump in without paying anything and see what the game has to offer.The free-to-play space of LEGO Universe includes two of the adv... |
16 August 2011
04:20 GMT |
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Video game publisher Trion Worlds, one of the companies aiming for success in the MMO space, has announced that its upcoming title End of Nations will be launched using a free-to-play system, allowing gamers to get access to a premium game experience without needing to subscribe.The developers are saying that those w... |
12 August 2011
03:22 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has announced that it has replaced the previous demo for the Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty real-time strategy game with a new Starter Edition , which allows players access to more content without asking them to pay anything. All that's required to access the new Starter Edition fo... |
4 August 2011
05:44 GMT |
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The PC gaming space has recently seen a big increase in the number of video games, especially those who are heavily oriented towards multiplayer, that are ditching subscriptions and adopting a free-to-play model with the potential for microtransactions.
But at least one major executive believes that the same model... |
2 August 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Video game developer Valve has announced that all those interested in Defense of the Ancients 2 will be able to see the official reveal of the video game at a tournament that will be taking place between August 17 and 21 at the Gamescom trade event in Cologne, Germany.
Valve is calling the tournament “The In... |
2 August 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Developer S2 Games has announced that it is starting to transition its multiplayer-oriented mix between action and role-playing game Heroes of Newerth towards the free to play business model, becoming the latest developer to abandon subscriptions and offer most of their game without requiring the players to pay.
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1 August 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Social gaming, be it based around social networks like Facebook or powered by the big selling smartphones, seems to be one of the hottest trends in the video game world, but at least one high-level executive believes that at the moment the hype level does not match the realities of the market.
Speaking to Gamasutr... |
25 July 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Developer Q-Games has announced that PixelJunk Monsters, a game that has been so far only offered on the PlayStation Network from Sony, will be launched on social networks in the coming months using a free-to-play model.
The announcement was made at the Casual Connect conference that took place in Seattle.
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25 July 2011
09:07 GMT |
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For a long time the Ghost Recon franchise only received ports on the PC and a lot of fans complained that they failed to deliver the same quality as the home console bound versions of the shooter, but now publisher Ubisoft says that the market is right and makes the new Online experience perfectly suited for the PC.
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19 July 2011
15:11 GMT |
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The video game arm of LucasArts, the company that holds the Star Wars license and it implicated in all projects that use it, has announced that it has thought about making Star Wars: Galaxies a free-to-play title and has decided that the model is not suited for the MMO before taking the decision to close it down befo... |
18 July 2011
17:21 GMT |
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CivWorld is the latest attempt by a major franchise to adapt itself to the demands of social gaming and Facebok while also creating an exciting gaming space for those who have loved the Civilization series on the PC or the Revolutions console outing.
The game is now fully playable although the team says that it is... |
11 July 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher Ubisoft seems to be planning to launch yet another free-to-play video game, called Castle Empire, which will have a medieval theme and will apparently fill another niche in the line up of the publisher.
It seems that Castle Empire will be played entirely in a browser and will not require gamer... |
11 July 2011
03:27 GMT |
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Video game publisher SEGA has officially announced that its free-to-play video game Spiral Nights has managed to pass the one million mark for registered accounts all over the world, just a few months after the official launch during April.
The game is set to get a bunch of new content to celebrate the achievement... |
7 July 2011
03:31 GMT |
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The EA Play division of video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that its free-to-play cartoon-powered shooter Battlefield Heroes will be getting a new map later during the month, the very popular recreation of Wake Island that has already been available in other installments of the franchise. The company ... |
4 July 2011
04:47 GMT |
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Paragon Studios, as the developer, and NCsoft, as the publisher, have announced that they are working to transition their superhero powered MMO City of Heroes and its expansion City of Villains to the free to play and micro transaction model starting later this year.The two companies are saying that those who do not ... |
22 June 2011
13:41 GMT |
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The LEGO Group has announced that it plans to introduce a free to play option to the LEGO Universe MMO, designed to make the game more accessible to those who love to create complex stuff out of virtual bricks.The free to play options will allow gamers to try out the experience before they commit to a paid membership... |
22 June 2011
04:59 GMT |
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The world of free to play games is getting larger and soon Steam, one of the most innovative developers in the world of video gaming, might be the latest company to launch a project in the field and see how it fares in the long term.While talking with Barre De Vie about the recent initiative to launch free to play vi... |
20 June 2011
15:01 GMT |
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High-profile publishers like Electronic Arts and Ubisoft are now eager to get into the free-to-play and microtransaction-powered gaming space while Steam has just launched a new section that features them, but it seems that in the near future Nintendo is not interested in bringing any free-to-play titles to its conso... |
16 June 2011
10:37 GMT |
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Video game developer Valve, the creator of the Steam digital distribution platform, has announced that it has introduced a new Free to Play Games category to the service, and that it is adding five video games that can be played by any gamer without paying any money.The five games initially added to the category are:... |
15 June 2011
04:37 GMT |
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Wargaming.net, the developer of World of Tanks, has announced that the World War II focused MMO has managed to attract more than 2 million players on the Russian market and has close to 1 million registrations on Western markets.
The game has long been in beta stage and has seen an official launch on April 12 in the... |
25 May 2011
13:31 GMT |
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French video game publisher Ubisoft has announced that it's Singapore-based studio is working on the development of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online, a new free-to-play multiplayer-focused shooter that does not currently have a launch date.
Ubisoft said that the game would offer players a chance to choose b... |
25 May 2011
09:54 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that Age of Empires Online, the free-to-play online strategy game, created by Robot Entertainment and by Gas Powered Games, will be launched this fall both in boxed form, for players to pick up at retail stores, and via digital distribution, although the company has not said where players will... |
11 May 2011
15:01 GMT |
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DC Universe Online from Sony Online Entertainment has managed to chart a path for success for the superhero-powered MMO, but the team behind the upcoming competitor Marvel Universe are saying that their game will raise the stakes by allowing players to actually inhabit the personas of well-known characters from the M... |
5 May 2011
05:37 GMT |
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