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WoW may go free-to-play in China
According to a news story on RedlineChina, The9 -- publisher of Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft in China -- is currently in talks with Blizzard to offer WoW as a free-to-play game in China....
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Free Realms released on the PlayStation 3
Sony Online Entertainment announced today that Free Realms, their free-to-play family based MMO, has been released onto the PlayStation Network. It becomes the first free-to-play multiplayer experience...
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Rumour: Free to play titles coming to Xbox Live
Hot on the heels of the announcement that Team Fortress 2 was to become a free to play title, a juicy new rumour has surfaced thanks to develop online. The rumour is simple - Microsoft is... Read more...
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World of Warcraft to offer unlimited trial version
More and more MMO games are either launching out of the box with a free-to-play business model or switching after launch to offer a free-to-play option to play the game. Now the biggest MMO game......
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Star Trek Online to go free-to-play by end of 2011
Star Trek Online, the sci-fi MMO game from developer Cryptic Studios, will soon become the latest monthly subscriber based game to move to a free-to-play business model sometime later in 2011. Read...
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Runescape announces Mad May month of offers
Jagex today announced details of their "Mad May" events which will take place in their popular free-to-play multiplayer title Runescape. The even will see competitions and special offers for members....
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Survey: 4 out of 10 free-to-play gamers pay for in-game content
A new survey from the NPD Group claims that four out of 10 people that play free-to-play, or freemium, games decide to pay for some kind of in-game content or expansion. Read more...
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Crytek transitioning to focus on free to play
Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek, says that the company is currently in a transistional phase, turning its focus towards the free to play, online market, and away from traditional distribution methods. Read...
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EA COO predicts all games will be free-to-play in 5-10 years
EA's COO Peter Moore has predicted in a recent interview that within 10 years from now, all games will follow the current free-to-play business model with microtransactions. Read more...
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Valve's economist-in-residence posts his first paper
Valve's newly announced "economist-in-residence" Yanis Varoufakis has posted his first paper on the Valve Economics blog, as he writes about "arbitrage and equilibrium" in Team Fortress 2's economy....
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More Warframe details revealed
Developer Digital Extremes has revealed more information about Warframe, their upcoming free-to-play multiplayer shooter game that should enter into closed beta later this summer. Read more...
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Nexon games to be made available on Steam
Nexon has announced that it will make some of its free-to-play PC games available to download via Valve's Steam service. It has already started with the fantasy MMO Vindictus. Read more...
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Battlefield Heroes celebrates third anniversary
Today marks the third anniversary of Battlefield Heroes; EA's first foray into the world of free-to-play PC gaming, which launched all the way back in 2009. Read more...
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C&C Generals 2 now just Command and Conquer; free-to-play
Electronic Arts has renamed its previously announced RTS game Command and Conquer Generals 2 as simply Command and Conquer, while also turning it into a free-to-play game. Read more...
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Microsoft announces first free-to-play Xbox 360 game
Microsoft has announced plans to publish Happy Wars, an upcoming Xbox Live Arcade title that will be the first free-to-play microtransaction-based game made for the Xbox 360. Read more...
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Command and Conquer F2P will have single player after all
The upcoming free-to-play revival of the Command and Conquer franchise will have a single player component after all, after originally announcing it would be multiplayer only. Read more...
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Blizzard looking into free-to-play for StarCraft II multiplayer
A new report claims that Blizzard is looking into possibly turning the multiplayer portion of StarCraft II into a free-to-play game but has yet to determine how to make money from that effort. Read...
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Dutch gamer charged with hacking an MMO in 2007 and 2008
A Dutch national who demanded rewards for ceasing attacks on an MMO's servers could be "levelled up" to five years in the slammer after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion....
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Valve: In-game store has made more money than direct Team Fortress 2 sales
Valve's Robin Walker has admitted that in-game sales from the Mann Co store in Team Fortress 2 have now generated more revenue than the game did during its direct game sales period. Read more...
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Team Fortress 2, and the evolution of a player-powered economy
The economy in Valve's war-themed hat simulator has been changing drastically in recent months. One community operated site, TF2 Finance, has taken an in-depth look at how it has developed thus far....
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