Tag Archives: freemium

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

The terms ‘triple-A’ and ‘freemium’ still don’t often go hand-in-hand, but it looks like that’s a route Bethesda is intent on exploring. IGN reports that a job listing for Bethesda’s Montreal studio is advertising for a game performance manager… to join the team that is pushing the bleeding-edge AAA freemium …

F2P Summit speakers share their experiences of the widely-used business model and explain why “it’s not a licence to print money”

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The Voxel Agents launched with an early and wildly successful mobile arcade hit Train Conductor.

EA’s Q3 financials have revealed the extent to which the smartphone market has shifted from full price to freemium and microtransaction titles. Overall mobile grew 18 per cent to $120m for EA for the quarter ending June 30th, with smartphone and tablets accounting for 90 per cent of that. Within …

Chris Wright, CTO at analytics firm DeltaDNA, explains why embracing freemium games could propel PlayStation ahead of Xbox

Platform holder "committed" to making its devices a viable market for freemium devs

Free games are not a threat to triple-A console releases. That’s according to experts from the biggest free-to-play companies. Execs at CCP and Wargaming dismiss the idea that all games in the future will be free, but tell MCV that free-to-play is a great way to break new IP. It …

F2P Summit: More than a third of paid players still spend after one month in top grossing apps