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Strictly Come Dancing: The Game. It’s real. And it’s free to play. And you can play it now. It may not be as obvious and natural a fit as the BBC’s other gaming license – Doctor Who – but as BBC Worldwide digital entertainment and games boss Robert Nashak observes: …
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Browser game's creators provides no data on monthly active users
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Former developers launch new studio Vostok Games
Read More »DOTA 2 to be a "new kind" of free-to-play
Valve will pursue its experiment with the free-to-play games model with a new plan to release its upcoming game DOTA 2 for free, the company’s managing director has said. Gabe Newell claimed Valve is not applying a wholly conventional freemium model for the online action strategy game.Usually, freemium games are …
Read More »Valve: DOTA 2 will be a new kind of free-to-play
Gabe Newell returns to issue of charging players based on how likeable they are
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New Frankfurt-based studio to release first 3D title in the summer
Read More »Temple Run reaches 10m downloads on Android
Free-to-play title reaches milestone in three weeks
Read More »EverQuest virtual item sales double after going F2P
Unique user log-ins increase by 150%, whilst concurrent usage also rose by 40% since last month
Read More »Angry parents sue Apple over in-app purchases
Minors 'induced' by tech giant to buy game currency 'without parental authorisation', claims lawsuit
Read More »World of Tanks surpasses 24m users in a year
Wargaming.net claims more than 450,000 concurrent players on single server
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