No one backed Warframe to be a success, but five years on it's going from strength-to-strength
So just how did work-for-hire studio Digital Extremes use the free-to-play model to take control of its own destiny?
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Free-to-play shooter Warframe has been downloaded one million times on Nintendo Switch
Digital Extremes hits milestone less than a month after Switch debut
Steam’s top sellers of 2018 to date: Jurassic World, Vermintide 2 and Warframe all go Platinum
Steam reveals the biggest sellers and most-played titles of the year to date
Digital Extremes puts The Amazing Eternals on the shelf
All staff are safe and will be redeployed to work on Warframe and refunds will be issued
Digital Extremes infiltrated by random gamer
Reddit user spends whole day at Warframe studio, uncovers secret game, enjoys free lunch
'Self-publishing is critical to survival': Why n-Space teamed up with Digital Extremes
CEO Dan O'Leary talks us through the studio's partnership with the Warframe dev for new RPG Sword Coast Legends
n-Space teams up with Warframe dev Digital Extremes for mysterious RPG
Work-for-hire studio hires Dragon Age director and other genre veterans for new project
Chinese duo acquire majority share in Warframe studio Digital Extremes
Multi Dynamic Games and Perfect Online Holding take a combined 61 per cent share for $75.5m
Perfect World and meat supplier acquire Warframe dev
F2P success for Canada dev attracts overseas interest
JJ Abrams 'emotionally hurt' by developer's Star Trek game
Video game detrimental to the success of movie Star Trek Into Darkness, claims director
Most mid-sized studios 'dead and gone'
Warframe creative director Steve Sinclair says it isn't easy being a middleweight
GDC 13: Handling AI in procedural levels
Daniel Brewer explains how Digital Extremes created solid pacing in Warframe
Starbreeze loses Darkness deal to Digital Extremes
Canadian studio picks up job for 2K Games' sequel
Toronto iP3 Forum calls for speakers
Interactive Ontario's iPhone conference now accepting submissions
CANADA SPECIAL: Ontario region
Develop speaks to Ontarioâ??s Minister of economic development and trade
BioWare listed as â??top 100â?? Canadian firm
Firm praised for bonus and sabbatical policy; Digital Extremes also joins list
Arkane becomes fourth BioShock 2 dev
France-based Arx Fatalis developer stepping in to assist in art design
Bioshock 2 enlists Dark Sector dev for multiplayer mode
Digital Extremes wins deal with 2K Games to deliver a multiplayer component for the highly anticipated sequel
Bioshock dev talks PS3 Trophies
Developer of PS3 version confirms Trophy integration, offering an insight into process
Digital Extremes tapped for Bioshock PS3
2K Marin's port to be assisted by darkSector developer
Canadian studios get $1m prototype funding
Money will be split between independents Silicon Knights and Digital Extremes