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Read More »Free-to-play Paragon getting $60 physical PS4 edition
Epic’s upcoming F2P outing Paragon is to receive a very un-free boxed release on PS4. A $59.99 Paragon Edition has been announced for North America for June 7th. For the money gamers get a host of in-game items and perks including 6,000 Paragon Coins (worth $60), some additional challenges, permanent …
Read More »Candy Crush creator: Free-to-play is not a sustainable business model on VR
But Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm predicts that the medium’s growing audience will pave the way for more than just premium products
Read More »American McGee studio Spicy Horse lays off staff in departure from F2P
‘The free-to-play space has become quite brutal in recent years, and I feel it's time we pivot to something new,’ says creator of Alice: Madness Returns
Read More »Boss Key abandons free-to-play model for LawBreakers
‘Using a digital premium model helps ensure an even playing field,’ explains Cliff Bleszinski
Read More »Bleszinski’s LawBreakers is no longer free-to-play
Developer Cliff Belszinski has said that his next shooter will not be a free-to-play title after all. LawBreakers was announced last year. But despite some positive noises about the payment model to begin with, Bleszinski has said that the negative reaction to F2P has led to change of heart. "We …
Read More »Spil Games to revive Creatures as mobile title
Creatures Family to launch in 2017, preceded by "multi-platform teaser" releases
Read More »DeltaDNA joins official PS4 tools and middleware line-up
Analytics and marketing platform is designed to allow devs to improve the monetisation of their free-to-play titles
Read More »Free-to-play PES 2016 kicks off on PC today
Konami’s F2P version of its football release PES 2016 is now available on PC. Having arrived on PS4 and PS3 last month, the trimmed-down version of last year’s full-blooded premium release offers seven teams and three game modes – Exhibition, Training and MyClub, which is Konami’s answer to EA’s lucrative …
Read More »NCSoft’s Blade and Soul player count surpasses 1m
Less than a week after it launched, new MMO Blade and Soul has shot past one million active players. NCSoft’s title launched on Tuesday January 19th 2016 in Europe and America following its debut in China and South Korea in 2012. The publisher announced that Blade and Soul was set …
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