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Sybo is hoping to replicate the success of its hit mobile title Subway Surfer with a brand new endless runner release. Blades of Brim is now available on iOS following a simultaneous launch in 17 countries, including China. It’s built using Apple’s Metal graphics engine and can be played both …
Read More »Avengers reassembled: How Gazillion rescued the struggling Marvel Heroes MMO
CEO David Brevik tells Develop how working with the community and being prepared to scrap everything helped turn things around
Read More »Warner Bros pulls plug on MOBA Infinite Crisis
Free-to-play title struggled to gain traction early on
Read More »VIDEO: Hearthstone ad to air during NBA and NHL finals
Blizzard will give its free-to-play card battler Hearthstone a big push with a TV ad that will air during the NBA and NHL finals in the US. The 30-second short takes a light-hearted approach to the title, showing off little in the way of gameplay and instead showing a fictional …
Read More »MMO WildStar is going free-to-play
One year after its launch NCSoft has announced that sci-fi MMO WildStar will be going free-to-play this autumn. Developer Carbine has said that this decision was taken to open the game up to more users. The switch to free-to-play was hinted at earlier this month. WildStar launched last June and …
Read More »Steam listing hints at Wildstar free-to-play switch
NCsoft’s sci-fi MMO Wildstar could be in the cusp of abandoning subscription charges. A new listing for the game on SteamDB suggests that the game will be free-on-demand” whenever it eventually appears on Valve’s service. That’s the name used by all free-to-play games on Steam. The data is mined from …
Read More »New 3DS Pullbox game is free to download in Japan
It probably doesn’t qualify as free-to-play, but Nintendo is again tinkering with payment models, this time with the release of a new Pullblox game. Siliconera reports that Pushmo: Hippaland can be downloaded on 3DS for free. For 500 (around 2.67) players can then grab another 100 levels. Three further 50 …
Read More »5 in-game events all free-to-play games should track
DeltaDNA's Isaac Roseboom on understanding player behaviour
Read More »Hearthstone hits 30m players
Free-to-play collectible card game Hearthstone has registered 30m players, Blizzard has revealed. The company announced the news via its Twitter account earlier today: "BY THE POWER OF RAGNAROS, 30 million players have joined us by the hearth! Thanks for pulling up a chair!" Blizzard’s statement would seem to debunkYahoo editor …
Read More »VIDEO: Free-to-play Happy Wars hits Xbox One
Toylogic has announced its free-to-play online multiplayer game Happy Wars is now available on Xbox One. Microsoft previously mentioned Happy Wars would be making its way to its new-gen console, due at least in part to the title being downloaded more than 10m on Xbox 360 since its launch in …
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