‘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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The Stream Team: Storming Marvel Heroes’ Cosmic trial
Massively OP's MJ couldn't quite complete the achievement to unlock the Pirate Deadpool team up in preparation for Marvel Heroes' Cosmic trial, so today...
Where is Jeremy Soule’s Kickstarter symphony?
Back in 2013, Composer Jeremy Soule (Landmark, Guild Wars 2) launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $10,000 to fund his personal project of creating...
RIFT compensates players for server instability
Fans of RIFT have a new expansion to play, but that requires the game's servers to be cooperating in order to actually play it....
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Ghostcrawler reveals the design origins of World of Warcraft’s Death Knights
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Enter the Breach in Path of Exiles’ next league, launching December 2
If you've ever wanted to call out "Once more unto the Breach!" as a battle cry, Path of Exile offers you just that chance...
The Stream Team: Checking out EVE as free-to-play
Here's something you may not have expected to ever see: Massively OP's MJ in EVE Online! It's not because she has never played (she...
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Rumor: Marvel Heroes code points to a PlayStation port; Beast and Black Bolt on the way
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While those playing Star Trek Online on consoles are a bit behind the game's PC client, that also means that they get updates a...
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