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Forget everything you know about FireFall.

It makes for a good headline: “Free-to-play has a half life,” especially when it comes from someone as renowned and respected in the online gaming world as Richard Bartle, co-creator of the first MUD. (Side note: There are ...

Like it or not, Perfect World Entertainment is looking to carve out a major chunk of the free-to-play marketplace. Last week's news regarding PWE's intended purchase of Warframe developer Digital Extremes raised quite a f...

The word for the day was “Hossim,” a portmanteau of “awesome” and the new continent of Hossin, which was released for PlanetSide 2 last week. Well, it was mostly released.

Last week, Robot Entertainment found itself in a bit of hot water regarding their attitudes toward so-called “toxic” players in their upcoming MOBA-not-a-MOBA Orcs Must Die!...

Every man has his breaking point.

Defiance is what The Elder Scrolls Online should have been.

Dungons & Dragons is going free-to-play. Not Dungeons & Dragons Online.

I didn't want to keep making comparisons between War Thunder's Ground Forces expansion and World of Tanks, but it was impossible not to.

The hope of the next sandbox generation, ArcheAge, is finally here!...

It's been a long trip along the development roadmap for implants in PlanetSide 2.

We had the chance to sit in on a press roundtable with H1Z1 Senior Designer Jimmy Whisenhunt, who fielded questions about SOE's post-apocalyptic zombie survival extravaganza.

Will Transformers Universe have a smooth “roll out”?...

Eurogamer talked to Hearthstone Production Director Jason Chayes recently, who's not only happy with how the game's free-to-play aspects have been integrated but also also views the game as a “crucible” for understanding how...

So I Tweeted out something semi-amusing Thursday morning: I've got a game that's in such a pre-pre-pre-alpha state, I haven't even conceived it yet.

Zombies might actually be scary again. SOE gave gamers their first extended look at H1Z1 gameplay during a Twitch stream on Thursday.

What's in a name?...

How much can you learn about a game from a few hours in an alpha?...

In case you missed it, Sony had a few choice words to say at last week's GDC about their free-to-play business on the PlayStation 4.

Microtransactions are big business and they aren't going away any time soon. That's the conclusion one can easily reach by looking at the latest brief from market research firm SuperData, which puts a number on the console MT...

I'm an e-sports skeptic.

And then there were 16. Only one-quarter of the games that started on this journey still remain, so we thought we'd reflect on some of the stats we've seen in the first two rounds with a few “best of” lists: Most vot...

It's fully out in the open now.

Player housing is in the works for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

The first round of the MMOBomb Ultimate F2P Tournament is over!...