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Even as free-to-play seems to be taking a beating in recent weeks, there was an interesting talk at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco yesterday that bolstered its outlook for the future.

Perfect World Entertainment announced today that its free-to-play flagship MMO, Perfect World International, will be receiving its largest expansion to date.

Gajin Entertainment announced that the next update for its free-to-play WWII game, War Thunder, will introduce a sizeable amount of new content for players.

Hit survival game Ark: Survival Evolved is taking the H1Z1 approach and splitting into two, introducing a free-for-all, battle royale-type standalone game alongside its survival mode.

If your Radiant items haven't been doing it for you lately, the Trove developers have some good news.

Neverwinter's latest expansion, The Maze Engine, is officially live on the servers.

Forge of Empires developer Innogames announced today that the Funatics Software GmbH team has been added to the company ranks.

The English version of IMCgames' free-to-play MMO Tree of Savior is nearing release -- kind of.

In case you missed it, World of Tanks jacked up its in-game physics in Update 9.14 this week, bringing even more realistic tank-smashing action to gamers.

So far, Hearthstone's alternate heroes have required a cash purchase.

UPDATE: Thanks to commentor Grimsbane for tipping us off to the message from Jagex that the sale to Shangdong Hongda is not yet finalized, but is "in early stage discussions." Here's the statement from Jagex: As you may hav...

WildStar had a rough go of things last week, as Carbine Studios laid off reportedly 40% of its staff on Friday.

Former EQ franchise director Dave Georgeson has -- naturally -- been being questioned by his fans about the recent cancellation of EverQuest Next.

A new system designed to help players always be sure they have someone to team up with has been added to Riot's free-to-play MOBA League of Legends.

A brief change on the Diablo III site -- which is now being called a "display bug" by the game's social team -- recently seemed to indicate that the vanilla version of the game might be going free-to-play.

As of this morning, founders packs for Epic's free-to-play MOBA Paragon are available for purchase.

Star Wars: The Old Republic's most recent major update is now live and ready to play.

A new champion was introduced during the Paladin's Closed Beta patch 18 livestream this week.

UPDATE: According to a source at Carbine speaking to Polygon, employees were told that they should expect additional layoffs and that they "only have a couple months left before Wildstar 'coasts into the sunset.'" It's not ...

The next Hearthstone expansion has been revealed!...

A new skin celebrating basketball is coming to Blizzard's free-to-play MOBA, Heroes of the Storm, this April.

The Star Trek Online dev team is ready to show off the new Skill System coming in Season 11.5.

In what comes as either no surprise at all or as the biggest surprise of 2016 so far (depending on your thoughts for the last year,) Daybreak Game Company ended speculation today when their President, Russell Shanks, officiall...

Aeria Games is going to stream for 24 hours straight starting early Friday morning, cycling through its stable of games and donating proceeds from the event to charity. Starting at 3 a.m.

Trion World's free-to-play fantasy MMO RIFT is turning five, and the team is ready to celebrate.