Neowin News Feed for: Free-to-play

Epic Games: PlayStation 4, next Xbox 'going heavily' on free-to-play games

John Callaham — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:37:19 +0100

Epic Games VP Mark Rein says that Microsoft will be "going heavily" on the free-to-play model for games made for the next Xbox, as well as Sony with its PlayStation 4 console. Read more...

Valve: In-game store has made more money than direct Team Fortress 2 sales

John Callaham — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:37:34 +0000

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...

Blizzard looking into free-to-play for StarCraft II multiplayer

John Callaham — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 21:19:16 +0100

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 more...

Command and Conquer F2P will have single player after all

John Callaham — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:24:20 +0100

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...

Microsoft announces first free-to-play Xbox 360 game

John Callaham — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:47:21 +0100

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...

Nexon games to be made available on Steam

John Callaham — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:47:44 +0100

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...

More Warframe details revealed

John Callaham — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:43:08 +0100

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...

Valve's economist-in-residence posts his first paper

John Callaham — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:05:27 +0100

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. Read more...

EA COO predicts all games will be free-to-play in 5-10 years

John Callaham — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:14:48 +0100

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...

Survey: 4 out of 10 free-to-play gamers pay for in-game content

John Callaham — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:10:58 +0100

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...

Runescape announces Mad May month of offers

Byron Hinson — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:10:00 +0100

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. Read more...

Star Trek Online to go free-to-play by end of 2011

John Callaham — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:55:08 +0100

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 more...

World of Warcraft to offer unlimited trial version

John Callaham — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:41:01 +0100

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... Read more...

WoW may go free-to-play in China

mlauzon76 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:20:39 +0000

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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. This... Read more...