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Carbine Studios’ Jeremy Gaffney believes subscription-based MMOs can still survive in the modern industry
Read More »VIDEO: Bethesda announces free-to-play multiplayer combat title Battlecry
Bethesda has announced that Battlecry Studios is making a game called… Battlecry. It’s described as an all-new multiplayer action combat game featuring fast-paced and frenetic 32-player battles” and will be free-to-play. It’s the studio’s first title since its formation in 2012. The visual design is being headed by Half-Life 2 …
Read More »Disney abandons Star Wars: Attack Squadron
Star Wars: Attack Squadron has been abandoned by Disney just four months after entering closed beta. The Area 52 developed free-to-play title offered 16-player online dogfights and the ability to customise iconic craft such as the X-Wing and Tie-Fighter. It was in development outside of EA’s exclusive Star Wars game …
Read More »Turbine to make Asheron’s Call free-to-play this summer
15-year-old MMO and its sequel shed their subscription-only access
Read More »Free-to-play FIFA World enters global open beta
EA has entered the next stage in the evolution of its lucrative FIFA franchise by opening up its free-to-play PC title FIFA World to all. The EA Canada developed game is effectively the Ultimate Team mode from the console game, albeit built around a modified game engine. It features over …
Read More »SoulCalibur: Lost Swords has no multiplayer ‘because of pay-to-win model’
The producer of Bandai Namco title SoulCalibur: Lost Swords has apparently stated that the game was designed to use a pay-to-win” payment model. That, producer Masaaki Hoshino has told Siliconera, is the reason why the free-to-play fighter opted for singleplayer instead of multiplayer gameplay. Originally we were thinking about having …
Read More »Dead Island: Epidemic lands on Steam as Early Access title
Deep Silver’s Dead Island MOBA spinoff Dead Island: Epidemic has launched on Valve’s Steam platform as an Early Access offering. While the final version of the game will be free-to-play, the closed beta version of the game currently available via the digital distributor is available in three different premium packages …
Read More »Web of opportunity: The new frontier of web game development
Develop speaks to middleware firms to find out the best tools available for making browser games for desktops and mobiles
Read More »Chillingo: free-to-play is the ‘fairest model in the world’
But general manager Ed Rumley warns F2P developers and publishers have responsibility to new gamers
Read More »Kabam: Console gamers could warm to IAPs
But president Andrew Sheppard says pay-to-win model is no longer viable for devs
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