‘Free-to-play’ is a term that refers to games that do not have box or download fees associated with them and do not incur a mandatory subscription. Some have optional subscriptions and are more properly referred to as hybrid F2P. Most have cash shops and microtransactions.
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Dive deeper into Path of Exile’s Atlas mechanics
Path of Exile's next big expansion, Atlas of Worlds, launches next week. What is Atlas of Worlds? Producer Chris Wilson previously touched on the...
Marvel Heroes the angelic assassin Angela and never-melting ice cream bars
As was foretold by the stars and prophets of old -- as well as Gazillion's developers -- Thor's sister Angela has joined the cast...
Crossout brings road warrior action to Steam early access
A morning commute to work or school can become a lot more fun if your vehicle has the capacity to clear a path with...
RIFT buffs up the Saboteur soul
The Saboteur in RIFT is all about, well, sabotage. It's a specialty based around bombs blowing things the heck up. The latest patch to...
Enter to win a Twin Saga Pioneer founder pack from Aeria and Massively OP
If you're eager to jump into Aeria's anime import Twin Saga and want to go in bedecked in all the game's fineries, then winning...
Perfect Ten: My favorite features in RIFT
RIFTÂ receives too little of the MMORPG community's attention, partially due to its age (six years now), contentious feelings toward Trion Worlds, or a perception...
Superdata’s July 2016 data show Guild Wars 2 surging, Pokemon Go on top
Superdata's July report on online gaming revenues is in, and there are some predictable bits and some surprises. On the P2P MMO front, the...
Warframe offers Nekros Prime access to players
How would you rank your abilities as a harbinger of death and destruction? That's sort of the whole point of Warframe's Nekros Prime, you...
Wargaming partners with Steven Seagal, shutters mobile studio with mass layoffs
Wargaming has brought on actor and martial artist Steven Seagal to be World of Warships' "personal Heroic Battle Advisor."
"Claiming victory in World of Warships...
Funcom warns of system-wide forum data breach
A blaze of Twitter messages has just erupted to inform Funcom's community that all of its game forums have been breached by hackers and...
League of Legends community clashes with Riot over e-sports, patches, and money
It's no surprise when drama crops up in a gaming community of millions, especially when professional e-sports and money are involved. So it goes...
Jukebox Heroes: MMO music for epic fights
This week I'll be hijacking a question sent into the podcast that I thought was particularly apt for Jukebox Heroes to tackle. It comes...
TERA kicks off three more summer events
What's missing from your summer? Fun? Freedom? The naive sense you had in school that time was functionally infinite and all things worked according...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 79: MOP goes to the opera
Justin and Bree discuss WoW, GW2, RIFT, Eternal Crusade, ESO, WildStar, Neverwinter, and Das Tal, with mailbag questions on armor scaling and better guild systems.
The Stream Team: Going for silver in Chronicle: RuneScape Legends
The Olympics in Rio may be over, but MassivelyOP's MJ is still going for the silver in Chronicle: RuneScape Legends. She finally beat Linza...
Hyperspace Beacon: Who is Star Wars The Old Republic’s Emperor Valkorion?
I took a look back at some of my previous Hyperspace Beacons and noticed that I have really never talked about the Sith Emperor, who...
ZeniMax amends Oculus lawsuit to accuse Carmack of stealing documents and tech
Back in 2014, ZeniMax Media filed a lawsuit accusing Palmer Luckey's Oculus of essentially stealing trade secrets, code, and intellectual property in the development of...
Star Trek Online finally makes a classic T6 Connie available — in a lockbox
If you've waded in the waters of Star Trek Online's community for any length of time, you'll no doubt have noticed that there's a...
Star Trek Online promises some exclusives for console players
Let's assume, for a moment, that you earn current generation consoles but still haven't jumped into Star Trek Online up until now. What's going...
The MOP Up: EverQuest II says hello to Kunark (August 21, 2016)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...