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Developer New World has announced a brand new F2P first person shooter called Lethal Enterprise – and it will be powered by Crytek’s impressive CryEngine 3. NowGamer reports that there are not yet any details regarding platforms or release dates. The PC is obviously the most likely contender, though the …
Read More »F2P Resistance game goes live
Sony has not just surprised fans with the announcement of a new free-to-play game set in the Resistance universe – it’s also made the game live. Called Global Resistance, the game was revealed this weekend at the Comic-Con event in San Diego. It’s completely free-to-play but unlike its console cousins …
Read More »F2P Championship Manager MMO revealed
Square Enix has lifted the lid on a massively multiplayer online version of its Championship Manager football franchise. Called Championship Manager: World of Football, the game will of course be free-to-play and will be accessible from any standard web browser. It is being developed by both series stalwart Beautiful Game …
Read More »Ubisoft: Don’t fear free games
The wave of free games available online can help best-selling retail games become bigger hits. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot this week told MCV the free-to-play category will convert non-gamers into paying gamers. On Tuesday the firm announced its fourth acquisition of a digital games firm in as many years, French …
Read More »Ubisoft acquires F2P studio Owlient
Speaking to MCV earlier today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has that his company has made its fourth casual gaming acquisition in two and a half years. The publisher has acquired Paris-based studio Owlient, developer of a number of free-to-play titles, owner of the Howrse IP and home of some 2m …
Read More »Dust 514 will demand upfront cover charge
CCP’s experimental console shooter Dust 514 won’t be quite as free-to-play at launch as we had come to expect. Upon its unveiling at E3 in June, it was revealed that as well as being digital-only the game would also be F2P, with in-game microtransactions encouraged by the developers. However, CCP …
Read More »Free to play titles take charge of Apples App Store
The growing momentum of free to play games is not just taking over the MMO market – it’s also taken control of Apple’s App Store marketplace. TouchArcade has word from the latest Flurry report which shows that free-to-play games now account for 65 per cent of the total revenues from …
Read More »Planetside 2 is coming, but will it be free to play?
Sony Online Entertainment has finally lifted the security gates on its long-rumoured first person MMO project – Planetside 2. Little is known of the game aside from the fact that the shooting action takes place in a persistent world and will feature a wide assortment of combat roles, though several …
Read More »Can MMOs make more money with F2P?
Gamesbrief director and industry analayst Nicholas Lovell says publishers of subscription-based MMOs could be denying themselves additional income. His comments come as several MMO publishers shift to a free-to-play business model. Everyone knows that subscriptions are a barrier to adoption, but what fewer people realise is that they are also …
Read More »F2P gives ageing MMOs a second chance
MMO publishers are flocking to the free-to-play market to stop users logging off. Over the past few weeks, a number of MMORPGs have announced they will be dropping subscription fees, such as City of Heroes, Age of Conan and LEGO Universe.Valve’s Team Fortress 2 and the Japanese version of Epic’s …
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