Tag: Free to Play
RuneScape 3 launches: World's most popular free-to-play MMO comes of age
RuneScape 3, the third revision of the world's most popular free-to-play MMORPG, has launched online. Giving the game a significant graphical overhaul and introducing a revised user interface, it's the most ambitious update to the game yet, which first launched…
10 of the best free to play PC games: League of Legends, Path of Exile and more!
Lately, everything is free to play; most people reading this have probably played plenty of free to play games, but the problem with the genre is that they're not only free to play, but they're often also pay to win…
OFT investigating free-to-play apps that pressure children into premium purchases
Freemium and free-to-play mobile and web apps are to be investigated by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) over concerns that players are unwittingly running up substantial costs with them. Looking specifically at the marketing approach to children that these…
Sony gaming boss slams Zynga free-to-play games
Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley has slammed social gaming developers Zynga, stating that their approach to the free-to-play gaming model (in which gamers are allowed to access and play games for free, with in-game purchases and advertising delivering developers…
Star Wars: The Old Republic free-to-play details/restrictions revealed
Star Wars: The Old Republic, Bioware and EA's ambitious but ultimately failed MMORPG set in George Lucas's sci-fi universe, is almost ready to make the transition from subscription based to free-to-play. After months of deliberation, the exact details on what…
Star Wars: The Old Republic to go free-to-play
It was inevitable, right? Star Wars: The Old Republic got off to a great start when it launched last Christmas, picking up a million subscribers in its first week and rising to 1.7 million by February. But having steadily dropped…
World of Warcraft is now free to play (until level 20)
If you've failed to try the slightly sadomasochistic delights of World of Warcraft, the world's most popular massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), you've just been offered a new incentive to do so. Blizzard's title is now free…
Free-to-play games coming to Xbox Live?
An overhaul of Microsoft's Live payment system may see free-to-play games coming to the Xbox Live platform. Free-to-play games offer full games to play without any initial charge for users. While free-to-play games can function without any monetary input from…
"Free-to-play" games with microtransactions hitting Xbox Live?
Like your games cheap? Then the Xbox 360's Live online platform may have just scored some brownie points with you. A report from IGN is claiming that Microsoft are planning on making free-to-play titles available from their online service as…
