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This week’s MCV isnow available to view online – and it is absolutely free. The issue is dedicated to the free-to-play games market and features the biggest names in freemium, including Wargaming, Nexon, Ubisoft, CCP, Crytek, InComm, Qinqo, Disney, EA, Gameloft, GREE, GameForge, Jagex, Trion Worlds, Square Enix, MarvelousAQL, Perfect …
Read More »Molyneux’s Curiosity out next week
Android version arriving later
Read More »Tap Tap Sushi HD gets freemium update
Mumbai-based developer Playcaso’s Tap Tap Sushi HD for iPad has received a 2.0 update that adds additional content and an in-app purchase system. You can now purchase coins within the game using real world money, which can then be used to buy in-game power-ups. Playcaso had released Tap Tap Sushi …
Read More »New Xbox, Konami and Amazon UK studios detailed in this week’s MCV
The latest issue of MCV is now available digitally, and it features details on a trio of new London studios, the last of our four interviews with EA and tips on surviving Gamescom. That’s on top of the latest charts data from Chart-Track, the PlayStation Network, Steam, Apple and iOS. …
Read More »Molyneux ‘testing the morality of monetisation’
Game designer speaks about questions behind 22 Cans' first project Curiosity
Read More »E3 2012: Crytek switches to F2P, Premium DLC "milking gamers to death"
Crysis developer Crytek has apparently claimed that it is to become a free-to-play only studio. Speaking to Videogamer.com, CEO Cevat Yerli said that the growing DLC and premium services” model is milking customers to death”. The transition will come once the developer has completed its current contracts for traditional boxed …
Read More »‘The most profitable mobile devs are not F2P’
'A lot of people have switched to freemium because they could not make money on the paid side' says Days of Wonder CEO
Read More »Gree founder loses $702m
IAP clampdown sheds vast sum from personal fortune of Japan's youngest billionaire
Read More »Freemium crackdown prompts DeNA and Gree share nosedive
Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency questions IAP practices; wider national games sector hit by trading caution
Read More »Battlestar Galactica ‘nears 10m registered users’
Browser game's creators provides no data on monthly active users
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