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The likes of GTA, CS:GO, Rocket League, Dota 2 and PUBG once again made it to the top of the Steam charts for 2018
Read More »Games-as-a-service and free-to-play top Steam 2018 charts
Free-to-play shooter Warframe has been downloaded one million times on Nintendo Switch
Digital Extremes hits milestone less than a month after Switch debut
Read More »Counter-Strike: Global Offensive goes free-to-play and unveils all-new Battle Royale mode
Existing players will get a free Prime Status upgrade
Read More »Free-to-play PC revenue doubles in five years to $22 billion though in-game monetisation
New data from analytics firm SuperData shows that, despite the outcry, gamers are generating double the revenue they did in 2012 in the free-to-play PC market
Read More »Interview: Swing King and the Temple of Bling
Creating a free to play game is one thing, creating a mascot to boot is another. Shedworks Games creative director, Gregorios Kythreotis talks us through the development of Swing King and the Temple of Bling
Read More »Opinion: The Kids are Free to play
Developer Byron Atkinson-Jones recently took a class with students from the Prince's Trust and found a surprising trend amongst the games designed by his pupils
Read More »Battleborn goes free-to-play in all but name
Following the almighty fuss last year over claims that Battleborn was going free-to-play, Battleborn has gone free-to-play. Except developer Gearbox isn’t calling it that. Instead, the studio is doggedly referring to it as a free trial”, despite that fact that the model sounds exactly like free-to-play. Starting today players can …
Read More »Awesomenauts is becoming free-to-play
Ronimo’s side-scrolling 2D MOBA Awesomenauts is making the transition to free-to-play. The switch will be made on Steam on May 24th, although an update that has overhauled the progression system has already gone live. Changes include an overhauled tutorial and ‘beginner experience’ designed to make it easier for newcomers to …
Read More »Anonymous source: Goodgame Studios to lay off 200 employees tomorrow afternoon
Latest in a string of layoffs for the company
Read More »Warface to be published by My.com from February
Crytek’s Warface has a new publisher for Europe and North America. Starting from February 2017, the first-person-shooter will be published by My.com in the above territories. Crytek, meanwhile, will remain in charge of updates as well as its ongoing support. With My.com taking over all publishing and operations duties, the …
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