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The publishing giant is rebranding its Play4Free label to add free-to-play games into its growing Origin offering. EA has announced plans to integrate established F2P portal Play4Free and its titles into its flagship download games service, eventually putting everything under the new Origin Free To Play label. Popular Play4Free games …
Read More »Valve opens Steam Community Market
Beta allows customers to buy and sell in-game merchandise with their Steam Wallet
Read More »Ubisoft: ‘Players trust High Street more than online’
Some gaming enthusiasts find buying games on the High Street safer than via online, says Ubisoft. The firm’s free-to-play publishing director Thomas Paincon said that some consumers trust the High Street over online services and free-to-play games. And that’s why the firm is launching a boxed version of digital F2P …
Read More »Crytek’s Gface to be an open platform
Social platform for games open to third-party developers, says Cevat Yerli
Read More »Free-to-play and retail can co-exist, says Yerli
Crytek CEO details the studio's vision for the future of gaming
Read More »Ben Cousins’ mobile studio named Scattered
First title to be console-quality FPS for mobile devices
Read More »Adhesive breaks open Hawken beta
Community members get access to much anticipated PC shooter
Read More »Bigpoint passes 300 million registered users
MMO giant holding competition for new and current users
Read More »Has Eyeo put paid to freemium?
Intel Developer Blog: A look at the impact ad-blocking software could have on free-to-play
Read More »Kongregate now offers free-to-play downloadable titles
Online games portal Kongregate has introduced downloadable free-to-play games to its catalogue. The GameStop property says it will help developers with monetization and promotion, as well as providing visibility for titles. "This is a huge evolution forward for Kongregate, our gamers, and game developers,” said Kongregate CEO Jim Greer. We …
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