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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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The NPD Group, which has launched yet another sales evaluation for the game industry in the United States for the month of March, has also released a new estimate about the whole of 2010, showing that that gamers have spent no less than 5.8 billion dollars on purely digital video games content.
During the entire y... |
15 April 2011
17:11 GMT |
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Free Realms, the free-to-play MMO aimed at a younger audience that Sony Online Entertainment finally brought to the PlayStation 3 in recent weeks, has the potential to get close to 100 million players in the coming years, according to at least one of the leaders of the company.
John Smedley, who is the president o... |
7 April 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Ben Cousens, who is the leader of the development studio that is creating the upcoming shooter Battlefield Play4Free, says that his company has determined that all gamers engaging with the genre are hardcore in their own way, competitive and interested in comparing their performance with that of other players.
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23 March 2011
05:42 GMT |
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Wargaming.net, a company that develops and publishes its own titles, has announced that World of Tanks, the MMO that it has built around tank battles, based upon those seen in the Second World War, is set to be officially launched in both Europe and in North America on April 12.
World of Tanks has been in a long b... |
21 March 2011
10:37 GMT |
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Video game publisher SEGA of America and developer Three Rings have announced that they are working together to develop and release a new free-to-play MMO called Spiral Knights, which is aimed at a younger audiences and aims to offer players a chance to experience old school adventure game content.
The new game wi... |
16 March 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Sony Online Entertainment has announced that Free Realms, its free-to-play MMO, is now slated for release on the PlayStation 3 home-gaming console on March 29 for the North American market, after being out on the PC and the Mac for close to two full years.
Sony says that there are about 17 million players that are... |
14 March 2011
08:30 GMT |
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The PC platform can become Electronic Arts' biggest and most profitable venture, as the company is forecasting a lot of profit opportunities in terms of online games.
PC gaming has been deemed a dying industry in recent years due to piracy and other such problems, but Electronic Arts is adamant that, with the... |
11 March 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Talkie, a social gaming firm, has announced that it is developing a social-based video game called Ecotopia that will arrive on Facebook and will focus on ecology issues, with backing from popular Hollywood actor Harrison Ford.
Ecotopia is a story and will task the players with taking on a series of missions using... |
8 March 2011
08:51 GMT |
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Publisher Paradox Interactive has offered more information on their alternate history online game Gettysburg: Armored Warfare, which will use the free-to-play model to allow gamers to engage in 32 versus 32 players battles that will mix real-time strategy and first-person shooter mechanics.
The concept of the game... |
2 March 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Petroglyph Games, a long-time developer of real-time strategy experiences, has announced that it is working on Rise of the Immortals, a free-to-play video game for the PC that aims to expand the multiplayer online battle arena concept. The team says that it aims to innovate a lot and create a game that expands on th... |
23 February 2011
13:31 GMT |
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A government ministry in the Asian country of Vietnam has asked those companies that offer Internet connections and services to block all access to online video games between the hours of 10 PM and 8 AM, with the clear intention of eliminating gaming during the night hours and forcing players to get a bit of sleep.
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23 February 2011
09:19 GMT |
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Cryptic Studios, as the developer, and Atari, as the publisher, have announced that, after morphing into a free-to-play game, their MMO Champions Online has managed to see an increase in user activity of more than 1,000 percent, with hundreds of thousands of gamers creating superhero avatars in order to see what the ... |
21 February 2011
03:23 GMT |
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Tencent Holdings, one of the most important Internet-oriented companies operating on the Chinese market, delivering instant messaging services, social networking and online video games to its customers, has acquired a controlling stake in developer Riot Games, the creator of League of Legends.
Brandon Beck, who is... |
8 February 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is looking to stay one step ahead of its competition in terms of online endeavors, as the company's Chief Operating Officer, John Schappert, confirmed that it would focus on launching more Facebook games in the future.
EA has been really pushing new profit avenues for its big franchises, inclu... |
8 February 2011
02:35 GMT |
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A new report from analysts working for the first eMarketer says that close to 69 million American will be engaged in regular social game playing in 2012, making up about 29 percent of the total Internet population in the United States. The research firm says that a player qualifies as a gamer interested in social ga... |
25 January 2011
13:31 GMT |
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The sequel to the download only first-person shooter Blacklight: Tango Down, which is set to drop the post colon part of the title, will be delivered as a free to play game, with revenue for the developer derived from microtransactions.
The original Blacklight: Tango Down has been created by Zombie Studios and was... |
19 January 2011
02:52 GMT |
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Codemasters Online has confirmed that it is working on a new Formula 1 based video game that will be online based and free to play, with a new team with the headquarters in Warwickshire, United Kingdom set to be in charge of initial development of the title and then in maintaining it and delivering more content.
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18 January 2011
09:44 GMT |
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Atari, as the publisher, and Cryptic Studios, as the developer, have announced that their superhero-based MMO Champions Online would be moving to a free-to-play and microtransaction business model starting on January 25.
The move had been announced for some time, with initial information coming out in late 2010, b... |
13 January 2011
13:41 GMT |
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A representative from developer Turbine has revealed the fact that The Lord of the Rings Online, the MMO based on the Tolkien fantasy universe, is now a free-to-play title with added micro transactions, bringing in three times as much revenue as when it had a business model based around subscriptions.
Adam Mersky,... |
10 January 2011
16:31 GMT |
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A new report from ABI Research says that the revenue generated by the online gaming industry will reach 20 billion dollars in 2012, fueled in part by the spread of mobile Internet connected devices that play online games and in part by the development of the genre in the Asia Pacific space.
The study is called &ld... |
3 January 2011
15:01 GMT |
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SEGA of America has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the company which handles media and the Internet for the sporting franchise, and the Major League Baseball Players Association in order to create and maintain a free-to-play sports simulation called MLB Man... |
20 December 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is being more welcoming to third party developers through its EA Games label, in an effort to deliver a more varied array of gaming experience to its customers while finding new ways of delivering content to the market, says one of the company executives.Frank Gibeau, who is the leader of the EA Games... |
14 December 2010
03:16 GMT |
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Despite all the talk of the rise of free to play social titles and the development of gaming on Apple made devices like the iPhone and the iPad the best way for a traditional publisher to invest its money is to fund the development of high quality core video games for the traditional market.A report from Cowan & Comp... |
29 November 2010
04:45 GMT |
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Turbine, as the developer, and Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment, as the publisher, have announced that the MMO The Lord of the Rings Online will get a new expansion, called Rise of Isengard, which is set to be delivered in the fall of 2011 and will significantly expand the scope of the game and add depth to the ... |
23 November 2010
03:23 GMT |
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A new survey from market research firm Newzoo has found that no less than 47.5 million Americans are playing persistent online games but, although the number is impressive, it is dwarfed by the 120 million players who are engaged in console gaming.From the total number 12.5 million are engaged in MMOs which have trad... |
19 November 2010
05:13 GMT |
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GamerFirst, a company which styles itself as the most popular publisher of free to play MMO titles, has officially announced that its subsidiary Reloaded Productions, Inc. has acquired all the intellectual property that is associated with All Points Bulletin, the game which was initially created by Realtime Worlds Lt... |
18 November 2010
03:21 GMT |
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The recently announced Battlefield Play4Free will be the "best of Battlefield", according to James Salt, the senior producer of the upcoming online, free-to-play first person shooter.EA is trying to once again succeed in the realm of free online PC games, after the lackluster Battlefield Heroes title, and has just re... |
10 November 2010
03:05 GMT |
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Atari, as the publisher, and Cryptic Studios, as the developer, have announced that their superhero based MMO Champions Online is set to become free to play for all those interested beginning with the first quarter of 2011, following the lead of other titles like Lord of the Rings Online.The base game will be offered... |
27 October 2010
04:20 GMT |
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Robin Walker, who is the lead designer working on Team Fortress 2, the multiplayer oriented team game from Valve, has said that his company is gathering data on whether the free to play and micro transaction model might be capable of supporting the game in the future.Talking to PC Gamer in the United Kingdom Walker s... |
4 October 2010
05:25 GMT |
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Gameforce, a German online games publisher, has announced that it will be launching Star Trek – Infinite Space, a free to play browser based casual title, that will be set in the Deep Space Nine universe and will allow gamers to explore space and engage in all negotiation and intrigue linked with the television... |
30 September 2010
05:23 GMT |
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Sanrio Digital, the creator if the Hello Kitty Online MMO, has announced that the game is now accessible to fans of the character who live in North America and in Europe and that a Premium Edition of the game is now available at retail, providing an alternative to the free downloadable client.The new officially named... |
26 August 2010
02:45 GMT |
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Microsoft, as the publisher, and Robot Entertainment, a development studio made up mostly of veterans coming from the regretted Ensemble team, have announced and shown off their upcoming digitally distributed strategy title Age of Empires Online.The Microsoft booth has many attractions, from Kinect to Halo: Reach and... |
18 August 2010
12:17 GMT |
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FIFA Online 2, a online game that has been developed jointly by EA Sports and Neowiz, has managed to get 220,000 players engaged at the same time in South Korea in July, with the South African World Cup serving as a backdrop.The player figure comes from a financial report offered by Neowiz, the South Korean company t... |
13 August 2010
02:44 GMT |
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Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it plans to launch a new EverQuest II service, called Extended, which is set to allow gamers to access more than five years worth of in game context for free. The new initiative will exist alongside the paid subscription model for the rest of the MMO, with players free to ... |
28 July 2010
08:06 GMT |
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It might seem like impossibility at the moment but the winds of change will not spare World of Warcraft, the MMO from Blizzard that is the leader of the subscription-based market. The fact that the game will at some point ditch the monthly fee in order to go free to play is labeled as “Certain” in one of ... |
3 July 2010
11:01 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is a huge video game. The developers at Blizzard are working on the third expansion, called Cataclysm, which will be arriving in the fall, with an open beta now testing the changes set to be made to the MMO.The title has more than 11 million subscribers, making it the biggest in its genre. But recen... |
1 July 2010
05:55 GMT |
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