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An internet rental specialist has promised to share its used game profits with publishers. OnePlayS offers a video game rental subscription service similar to LoveFilm. The difference is it lets users buy the game they’ve rented – second-hand – if they like it. Then it shares the money with the …
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MCV readers can now get a free trial of sister publication, Music Week – followed by substantially reduced subscription rates. Intent Media, MCV’s parent company, bought the world renowned industry bible in the summer and has already made significant improvements to the mag and website – including the appointment of …
Read More »EA releases subscription-supported Tetris
A new version of Tetris has been released by EA on iOS that offers additional features for those willing to subscribe. EA’s previous Tetris game has been removed from the Apple App Store. The new 69p game allows users to sign up for a premium subscription called the ‘Elite Tetris …
Read More »Apple pulls iOS games subscription app
After just a couple of days of availability, Apple has without explanation removed a first-of-its-kind games subscription service from the iOS App Store. Just yesterday MCV reported on the pioneering streaming games service from Big Fish, which used new subscription functionality introduced in Newsstand and was fully approved by Apple. …
Read More »iOS to get its first streaming games subscription service
Big Fish Games has secured an agreement with Apple for a first-of-its-kind subscription games servcie on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It will use the subscription functionality introduced to iOS as part of the Newsstand app. Bloomberg reports that access to dozens” of titles will be offered for $6.99 a …
Read More »F2P switch sees DC Universe revenues soar 700%
Sales for the DC Universe MMO has jumped sevenfold in around twenty days since the game turned free, according to new data. Microtransactions for virtual goods has driven the game’s growth, with a flood of new players accessing the title. PS3 users make up a half of all the game’s …
Read More »‘The Old Republic will be the last big MMO’
LONDON GAMES CONFERENCE 2011: Free-to-play model is the future, says Nicholas Lovell
Read More »DC Universe usage surges 1,000% after going F2P
Over 330,000 new DC Universe Online players in eight days since move from subscription model
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Intent Media has extended its offer of a free subscription to MCV magazine for all of its Twitter followers. MCV is not only the UK’s only weekly games trade mag – it’s also the only video games trade publication in the world to be released every seven days. If you …
Read More »Star Wars Old Republic "will be the last large-scale subscription MMO"
EA’s Star Wars: The Old Republic will, whenever it eventually arrives, be the last large scale” MMO to monetise itself via monthly subscriptions. That’s the opinion of Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley. We see some very interesting trends in subscription gaming,” he told GamesIndustry. In our cancellation surveys for …
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