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Riot unveils Redesigned League of Legends Magma Chamber Map

To add to this weeks All-Star festivities going down in Shang-hai, Riot Games unveiled a completely redesigned Magma Chamber map. While the original was intended to provide 5 man teams with smaller, more tactical fights across a large map, this new iteration is designed for just 1v1 and 2v2 fights with the overall map significantly [...]

Added 3 hours ago - 2013-05-24 - 11 comments

Cryptic devs discuss life in Neverwinter Post-Caturday

For most games, Open Beta is a chance to iron out the last few bugs, balance issues, and UI problems before officially launching. Other times it’s a frustrating sea of glitches, exploits, and crashes that can wreak havoc at the peak of the MMO’s attempt at capturing their audience’s attention. Unfortunately for developer Cryptic, Neverwinter [...]

Added 2 hours ago - 2013-05-24 - one comment

F2P and Consoles: Has the Time Finally Come?

The question at this point, I think, isn’t, “Will consoles embrace free-to-play?” Rather it’s, “What possible reason is there for consoles to not embrace free-to-play?” For the longest time, consoles couldn’t do free-to-play for the simple fact that you needed a disk or cartridge to play, which generally require a real cost. But with consoles [...]

Added 4 mins ago - 2013-05-24 - 8 comments

Merc Elite Key Feature Trailer Gives First Gameplay Glimpse

It will always be a slow news day when the editor’s PC decides to have a meltdown. Computers seem so fickle today, one minute your changing out a fan and the next minute your having to replace your motherboard. But late news is better than no news and I aim to deliver. Prior to my [...]

Added 15 hours ago - 2013-05-23 - 13 comments

Dragon’s Prophet First Look Video

Dragon’s Prophet is an Action MMORPG developed by Runewaker, the same company behind Runes of Magic. Dragon’s Prophet focuses on giving players the opportunity to capture and train over 300 unique dragons each of which has its own abilities as well as strengths and weaknesses. Players can choose from 4 classes and chain both abilities [...]

Added 2 days ago - 2013-05-22 - 19 comments

Aeria Games’ Soldier Front 2 FPS Announces MOBA-Style Mode

Free-to-play shooters are nothing new. Neither are MOBAs. But a combination of the two? That’s crazy talk! Hero Mode in Aeria Games’ upcoming Soldier Front 2 will pit two teams of five players against each other in classic MOBA fashion, sent to destroy the enemy’s – er, “object.” That’s what they call it on the [...]

Added 2 days ago - 2013-05-22 - 14 comments

And Then There Were Two: What can we learn from Rift’s recent announcement?

Normally, I like to walk slowly into my articles and let people ease into my points. Not this time, though. In the wake of last week’s news regarding Rift, it seems there are two notions that are on most people’s minds. WoW and EVE will go free-to-play “soon-ish,” too: FALSE Now that Rift is making [...]

Added 2 days ago - 2013-05-22 - 18 comments

F2P Cast: Adding Rift to The Free-to-Play Roster (EP 69)

On this week’s episode we discuss the announcement of Trion World’s soon to be F2P MMO Rift, the recent misfortunes of Minimum developers Timegate (why didn’t they pay their pizza bill!), and Neverwinter’s never ending woes. All of that plus some update discussions and talk of EA’s newest MOBA before we top it off with [...]

Added 2 days ago - 2013-05-22 - 10 comments

EA’s MOBA Dawngate gets first early details, Beta Starts Friday

EA joined the bandwagon last week with the announcement of their upcoming MOBA Dawngate and one could instantly feel the collective groan of a thousand gamers. Obviously, the question was never “if” EA would make a MOBA, but “when” EA would do so. I think the most surprising aspect of the announcement is that it [...]

Added 3 days ago - 2013-05-21 - 24 comments

Dragon’s Prophet Open Beta Announced, Dragon Filled Trailer Released

Queue up the Pokemon theme, because in just a little over a week players will be able to fight, capture and train over 300 unique dragons during the Dragon’s Prophet open beta. Both SOE (NA) and Infernum (EU) the regional publishers of Dragon’s Prophet announced the MMO would be headed into Open beta starting on [...]

Added 3 days ago - 2013-05-21 - 25 comments

Obsidian working on new Free-to-Play MMORPG with Allods Online Devs

Not content with their recent $3.986,929 Kickstarter success Project Eternity, Obsidian Entertainment has been announced as the co-developers of an upcoming free-to-play MMO Skyforge. What’s more, the developers will be working in conjunction with Allods Online developer Allods Team.

Added 4 days ago - 2013-05-20 - 26 comments

Neverwinter Economy Disrupted by Currency Exploit

Anyone who’s played Neverwinter can tell you just how confusing the MMO’s currency system really is. The game utilizes at least 3 separate currencies (not including tokens earned to purchase gear sets) with the most important currency being the Astral Diamond. This is gained from doing daily quests and other means and is used for [...]

Added 4 days ago - 2013-05-20 - 40 comments

Valve Announces Entirely Community Created TF2 Update: Robotic Boogaloo

Valve’s long running F2P shooter Team Fortress 2 received yet another update today. What makes this one different is that the material, in this case 57 new cosmetic items, was completely created by the Valve community. This is the first ever community designed update, which leaves fans wondering, is it the only one? If Valve’s [...]

Added 7 days ago - 2013-05-17 - 6 comments

Foreign Fridays: Hounds Online Ep. 6

On this episode of Foreign Fridays, Spunkify tries to survive the alien zombie infested world of the third person shooter Hounds Online! Hounds Online pits up to 6 players in predominantly PvE scenarios where they must complete objectives against hordes of the alien infected. The game offers several classes, varied locales and missions, boss fights, [...]

Added 7 days ago - 2013-05-17 - 7 comments

The Force Is Sorta OK In This One: SWTOR Bucks The Recent Trend Of F2P Failure

Star Wars: The Old Republic seems to be doing well since its switch to a free-to-play model – very well, according to BioWare. But do we have anything besides the company’s word to go by? As we alluded to in last week’s F2P Cast, BioWare’s claims of doubling their revenue may stem from the game’s, [...]

Added 8 days ago - 2013-05-16 - 31 comments

Late to the Party: EA announces MOBA Dawngate

EA has had a less than stellar track record when it comes to Free-to-Play games and their recent business decisions in general. The company has been slowly expanding their F2P offerings with mixed reception in each notable genre. They have some F2P shooters (Battlefield Play4Free and Heroes), a racing game (Need for Speed World), an [...]

Added 8 days ago - 2013-05-16 - 42 comments

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