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Read More »Bungie’s new free-to-play version of Destiny 2 will launch in September
Microsoft releases its first free-to-play Forza game, Forza Street
"Forza Street was designed for racing on the go"
Read More »EA’s free-to-play battle royale Apex Legend tops 10m players in just 72 hours
"Never in our wildest dreams could we have expected the positivity we’ve seen"
Read More »Games-as-a-service and free-to-play top Steam 2018 charts
The likes of GTA, CS:GO, Rocket League, Dota 2 and PUBG once again made it to the top of the Steam charts for 2018
Read More »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
Read More »Counter-Strike: Global Offensive goes free-to-play and unveils all-new Battle Royale mode
Existing players will get a free Prime Status upgrade
Read More »Free-to-play PC revenue doubles in five years to $22 billion though in-game monetisation
New data from analytics firm SuperData shows that, despite the outcry, gamers are generating double the revenue they did in 2012 in the free-to-play PC market
Read More »Interview: Swing King and the Temple of Bling
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
Read More »Opinion: The Kids are Free to play
Developer Byron Atkinson-Jones recently took a class with students from the Prince's Trust and found a surprising trend amongst the games designed by his pupils
Read More »Battleborn goes free-to-play in all but name
Following the almighty fuss last year over claims that Battleborn was going free-to-play, Battleborn has gone free-to-play. Except developer Gearbox isn’t calling it that. Instead, the studio is doggedly referring to it as a free trial”, despite that fact that the model sounds exactly like free-to-play. Starting today players can …
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