Tag: f2p
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The Five Commandments of DLC
Tony lays down the law for developers making DLC.
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Firefly to Return in Firefly Online for iOS & Android
The announcement was made by Fox Digital Entertainment at this week’s San Diego Comic Convention and was joined a brief teaser video, embedded below. Much like the series it is based on, Firefly Online will allow players to become a captain of their own crew, maintain their own vessel, and – of course – take…
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Rift succumbs to the F2P model
It’s not the first and it certainly won’t be the last to jump from a subscription-based model to the free to play one, but Rift held out for a surprisingly long time. Numerous MMOs emerged and subsequently went F2P while Rift stuck to it’s pay to play guns but now it goes to join its…
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Firaxis Announces Free-to-Play Title Haunted Hollow
Taking a break from console and PC development, Firaxis’ next title will a mobile strategy game with a “haunted house” theme. Haunted Hollow will see players take control of a spooky mansion filled with monsters on the outskirts of a small town. There, they will be tasked with battling a competing player (or computer opponent)…
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Sucked into Starter Edition
The other week Colin wrote up his experience of revisiting World of Warcraft via Blizzard’s new Free to Play version, or rather, untimed trial, of WoW, the Starter Edition. I, however, had never played WoW before a few weeks ago… so this is my spin on things. One of my hang-ups for games is the…
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Free to Grow
It’s difficult to think of a AAA release that has had as much post-release, official developer support as Team Fortress 2. While the practice of free, regular updates is fairly common with iOS games and indie titles – where developers try hard to retain and expand smaller audiences – when it comes to the big-hitters,…
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Do Free to Play Games Hit the Mark?
I recently bought myself a new laptop because my last one had a number of keys missing, Ubuntu installed and a failed graphics chipset. The new HP laptop isn’t anything special but it packs some punch and I wanted to play some games. The first idea that came into my head were free-to-play games. I…