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US studio working on Facebook multiplayer racing game
Read More »Oscar Clark leaves Papaya for Appifier
Hats off as Clark moves to Finnish mobile studio
Read More »TOYLOGIC: AAA games will shift toward free-to-play
Toylogic has touched on the indications of launching Xbox Live’s first free-to-play game Happy Wars, predicting that the release marks further expansion of the model – specifically into the AAA market. Studio president Yoichi Take spoke on the trending method ahead of his game’s release this Friday. "I believe it …
Read More »Finnish F2P mobile dev making $500k a day on iOS
Tablets 'are the ultimate game platform', says Supercell exec
Read More »World of Tanks fires past 40 million users
Wargaming.net claims more than 500,000 concurrent players on a single server
Read More »15 ways to make free-to-play pay
Gamesbrief's Nicholas Lovell delivers a guide to success at the F2P Summit
Read More »Warner reveals pair of free-to-play Hobbit titles
Upcoming Hollywood outing The Hobbit is to get the free-to-play game treatment. Warner has revealed a pair of titles – The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth for mobiles and Hobbit:Armies of the Third Age for web browsers. Both are due for release in autumn of this year, with the film itself …
Read More »Blizzard considers F2P Starcraft 2 multiplayer
But developer currently unsure how to successfully monetise game, says lead designer
Read More »Blizzard considering free-to-play option for Starcraft II multiplayer
Blizzard is looking into potentially offering a free-to-play option for Starcraft II’s multiplayer mode, according to the game’s lead designer Dustin Browder. Browder was asked during a panel at the Valencia eSports Congress (via pcgamesn) if Blizzard had any plans for f2p for the popular strategy franchise. [We’re] looking at …
Read More »Ubisoft’s digital boss on free-to-play, mobile games, eSports and the new UPlay
Ubisoft showed off its download line-up at its Digital Days showcase in Paris earlier this month, and MCV caught up with worldwide director of online games Stephanie Perotti. The publisher’s digital boss shared with us the plan for the newly-relaunched UPlay downloads service, the ever-growing free-to-play sector, the promising eSports …
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