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Marvel Heroes 2015 developer Gazillion has suffered a round of layoffs, the studio has confirmed. Following the re-launch of its licensed free-to-play MMO last summer, Gamasutra – citing Marvel Heroes QA director Michael Parks – reports Gazillion had been hit by a lot” of redundancies. Gazillion responded by officially confirming …
Read More »WildStar’s free-to-play switch dated
NCsoft has confirmed precisely when its MMO WildStar will become a free-to-play title. The game, once touted as a possible World of Warcraft beater, will drop its subscription charges on September 29th. Current subscribers are already able to access the closed beta of the free-to-play version of the game and …
Read More »More free-to-play titles will fall foul of ASA, predicts Lovell
More free-to-play games will be criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority for trying to ‘exhort’ money from children. That’s what Nicholas Lovell, director of Gamesbrief and leading consultant on freemium games, predicts. Last week, the ASA ruled against 55Pixels’ Bin Weevils and Mind Candy’s Moshi Monsters for trying to persuade …
Read More »SoulCalibur Lost Swords to down weapons in November
Bandai Namco has said that its free-to-play fighting game SoulCalibur: Lost Swords will be shut down later this year. Eurogamer reports that the servers for the PS3 title will be shut down on November 30th, just a year and a half after the game was first launched. Sales of Continue …
Read More »Trion doubts it’ll ever do another subscription game
At the time of writing, six titles in the top 20 most played games on Steam are free-to-play. One of those games is Trion Worlds’ voxel MMO Trove, which clearly takes inspiration from one of the world’s biggest ever games, Minecraft. Speaking toDevelopat Gamescom, Trion Worlds CEO Scott Hartsman said …
Read More »Trion Worlds CEO: I don’t think I’d do subscription games again
Scott Hartsman on the huge success of Trove, making Defiance free-to-play and the blossoming console F2P market
Read More »Amazon Underground introduces new ‘pay-as-they-play’ business model
New venture by Kindle firm pays free-to-play developers based on the minutes gamers spend with their titles
Read More »Cliff Bleszinski reveals free-to-play multiplayer FPS LawBreakers
Cliff Bleszkinski’s studio Boss Key has unveiled LawBreakers, an upcoming free-to-play multiplayer FPS to be published by Nexon. Boss Key revealed the title – formerly known as Project Bluestreak – earlier today on Twitch with the debut of a live-action trailer to set up the game’s backstory: Warring factions battling …
Read More »Frozen Free Fall: Snowball Fight is heading to Xbox One
Popular mobile match-3 title Frozen Free Fall: Snowball Fight is releasing as a free-to-play title on Xbox One. The Xbox store says it will be released next week on August 25th. Like the mobile game, it will also support in-app purchases to aid player progression through its 195 levels. New …
Read More »Fallout Shelter arrives for Android devices
Bethesda has made good on its aim to bring Fallout Shelter to Android this month, with the game available to download now on Google Play. The game was revealed during E3 in June, launching on the same day for iOS. The company initially stated the Android version would hopefully be …
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