If you’re like me, you think of many free-to-play games as free trials. If it’s not something you’re hotly anticipating or something you’ve just recently heard of, you’ll try a game out to see if it hooks you in the first few hours. If it does, you’ll stick around and maybe spend money on it. [...]
Relying on a proven name to sell merchandise is hardly a concept that’s unique to the gaming industry. Whether it’s TV show spinoffs, movie and book sequels, or anything that starts with “From the makers of…”, the general conversation goes something like this: “That thing you like? You’ll like this, too, because it’s the same, [...]
Caught up in the Hearthstone hype? While you’re waiting for that beta key, you might want to check out Ubisoft’s Might & Magic – Duel of Champions. The online TCG was released in March on PC/iPad and already has three expansions under its belt, including last week’s release, Forgotten Wars. While the basics of the [...]
Let’s start by saying I don’t disagree with anything Jeremy Gaffney said. The WildStar executive producer said in a recent interview that his game wasn’t going free-to-play because: “Different games with different business models work in a very different fashion. If you look at City of Heroes [which Gaffney produced] compared to Guild Wars, it [...]
Every free-to-play game has them. You know who they are. You might even be one of them. Warning, incoming satire You’re a free player, who refuses to pay for your game. Less charitable names for your ilk are “freeloader” or “moocher.” How dare you take all the hard work the game developers go to to [...]
Red 5 Studios CEO Mark Kern took to the Firefall forums early Thursday morning to deliver the sad news that they were temporarily cutting out the PvP aspects of the game so the company could “completely rethink our PvP and re-implement it to the highest standards “ While clearly disappointing to fans of Firefall’s PvP, [...]
I know a few people who play Trials (and one who makes really awesome videos of it), so when I saw there was a F2P version of Trials, I cheered! Then I saw it was for mobile devices, and I was sad. Then I read about how it monetizes, and I was really sad. We [...]
Pax Prime brought more news regarding SOE’s first of two sandbox MMOs, Everquest Next: Landmark. Something I have to admit, I was not expecting. Just a few weeks ago SOE had devoted a large portion of their own convention revealing EQN. Everyone would understand if SOE needed a breather before divulging much more. But, SOE [...]
Extraction is a tactical team-oriented first person shooter from one of the original pioneers of class based shooters, Splash Damage. Being a big fan of most Splash Damage’s other works, I had a chance to try several rounds of the shooter at this year’s Pax Prime. Splash Damage has a rich history when it comes [...]
Helmets will be shattered! Blood will be spilled! And that’s only in the first quarter of this weekend’s NFL action! Last week, we got a sneak peek at the next expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online, Battle of Helm’s Deep. As you might expect, the pivotal battle of The Two Towers is the [...]
Damion Schubert, Lead Designer on Star Wars: The Old Republic has a blog. I didn’t know that until yesterday, when someone on my Twitter feed pointed me toward a recent entry where Schubert analyzes last week’s news regarding the subscription model announcements for The Elder Scrolls Online and WildStar. The first point to take is [...]
Although there wasn’t much in the way of Free-to-Play news, it’s always a great experience visiting Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. Like E3, this year’s Gamescom, was also primarily focused on next-gen consoles and like we mentioned previously, the Playstation 4 is still poised to deliver a F2P smack down on the Xbox One. A snowy [...]
During this year’s Gamescom I had the opportunity to talk with Nic van’t Schip, product manager at Perfect World and all around good guy. Although Perfect World has yet to officially confirm what’s up next on the publisher’s plate, Nick and I had an interesting conversation concerning what the future may hold in store for [...]
For all our readers who’ve been following the console war closely, the news of the PlayStation 4′s dominance in the Free-to-Play console space may come as no surprise. The console’s dominance was made even more clear once we arrived at this year’s Gamescom convention in Cologne, Germany. It was with great pleasure that I found [...]
WildStar isn’t going to be free-to-play when it launches. Of course, that won’t stop people from speculating about when it will, because all subscription-based games that have come out over the last several years have either made the switch or wilted away into nothingness. And it’s tempting to say that Carbine Studios plans to do [...]
I was walking around Gamescom in the entertainment area when to my surprise, I stumbled upon two huge lines for the Oculus Rift booth. They were showing two games on the Oculus, a NASCAR related racing game and the Free-to-Play mech shooter, Hawken. I had already been lucky enough to experience the Oculus earlier this [...]
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