Upcoming film sequel The Expendables 3 and Steam Early Access title Broforce have crossed over to form a new free-to-play title by the name of The Expendabros, publisher Devolver Digital has announced. IGN reports the expand-alone content is currently available to download for free on Steam, but will only be …
Read More »China firm Alibaba invests $120m in free-to-play dev Kabam
F2P firm pens deal to get games published in China
Read More »MMO title Neverwinter confirmed for Xbox One
City of Heroes and Star Trek Online developer Cryptic Studios’ free-to-play MMO outing Neverwinter is coming to Xbox One. The game was mentioned yesterday as a launch title for Xbox One in China. Eurogamer notes that the official press release for the game mentions ‘consoles’ in the plural several times, …
Read More »Romero: PC is decimating consoles and free-to-play is killing triple-A
While PS4 and Xbox One win the majority of the headlines, it’s the PC that’s actually bossing the games market. That’s according to Doom creator John Romero, who told Games Industry: "With PC you have free-to-play and Steam games for five bucks. The PC is decimating console, just through price. …
Read More »New Early Access game Robocraft rockets past 1m players
Indie title attracting 175,000 new users per month on average
Read More »F2P games can no longer be listed as ‘free’ in Google Play Store
Google has altered the way in which it displays free-to-play game listings on the Google Play store following pressure from the European Commission. A host of titles such as Angry Birds and Dungeon Hunter 4 which were listed as ‘free’ last week now no longer carry a price tag – …
Read More »European Commission issues new rules for free-to-play games
Google already working to implement guidelines, but Apple yet to commit
Read More »Something’s rotten in the state of free
Oscar Clark looks at the current state of F2P, and what the future should look like
Read More »Sony’s commitment to free-to-play may be a masterstroke
Chris Wright, CTO at analytics firm DeltaDNA, explains why embracing freemium games could propel PlayStation ahead of Xbox
Read More »Online game studio Motiga raises $20m for free-to-play PC title
US developer formed by ex-Blizzard, SmileGate, NetEase and NeoWiz staff
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