F2P Cast: Blade & Soul UE4, Astellia Dies, Krafton's IPO Flop, And Google Tried Buying Epic? Ep 399

On this week's show, the financials are in for many companies and Q2 looks a bit like it did last year...with some surprising swaps, but losing $40 million on bitcoin hurts, Krafton's IPO isn't the success they had hoped for, Astellia is closing, Blade & Soul's Unreal Engine 4 upgrade is almost here, and did Google really try to buy Epic?! All that and more on this week's Free to Play Cast!

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Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro
04:20 Blade & Sour Unreal Engine 4 And Astellia Closing
18:25 Nexon, NCSoft, Krafton, And Other Financials
41:25 Did Google Try To Buy Epic
44:10 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb)
55:15 Questions and Answers of the Week

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Free-To-Play Cast is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about free to play multiplayer online games. Free-To-Play Cast takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

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