‘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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Star Trek Online releasing Broken Circle featured episode this Thursday
It's time for Star Trek Online captains to take the fight to the Iconians. The game has been building up to an epic confrontation...
Marvel Heroes on Ant-Man and the vote for future heroes
With a panel at last week's San Diego Comic Con and preparations for this week's Ant-Man patch, Marvel Heroes has been quite busy talking...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best achievement system?
I've been dabbling in a bit of Star Wars: The Old Republic here lately, and I had forgotten how many achievements there were in...
DCUO celebrates The Flash’s 75th birthday
Did you know that The Flash turns 75 this year? Yep, he does. And there's probably a joke about being a spry septuagenarian in there somewhere,...
The Game Archaeologist: The Sims Online
The Sims Online was one of the odder entrants into the MMO genre, an online iteration of an immensely popular game franchise that promised...
The Stream Team: Giving away SWTOR goodies
Come to the dark side, we have goodies! OK, maybe that isn't an official slogan for SWTOR, but it is for MassivelyOP's Larry and...
World of Tanks’ Xbox One beta event starts July 11
World of Tanks is coming to Xbox One for a two-day beta event beginning on July 11. Testers will receive login bonuses that include...
Find out the secrets of Marvel Heroes’ Ant-Man
Marvel Heroes' 49th hero, Ant-Man, will be coming to the game soon to coincide with the character's theatrical debut. While the game's been selling...
ArcheAge’s skill queues lead to near-instant kill exploits [Updated]
Skill queues are meant as a way for players to "store up" commands and have all of those commands finally executed in one fell...
Path of Exile: The Awakening launches today
The ground is rumbling underneath Path of Exile and will soon erupt in a plume of fiery content. The Awakening, a long-awaited content update,...
RaiderZ is shutting down in August
Perfect World is shutting down RaiderZ, effective August 7th at 1:00 p.m. EDT. The firm says that payments back-dated to May 7th will be...
League of Legends’ newest champion can swallow you whole
One thing is for certain: Tahm Kench is not going to be winning any beauty contests in League of Legends. Fortunately, abilities matter more...
Path of Exile freeing up inactive character names tomorrow
Path of Exile's meaty Awakening content update hits the servers tomorrow, and while the patch will add plenty to the game, there's one thing...
APB: Reloaded producer communicates about communication
It's hard to love a game when you don't know what's going on behind the scenes, and it's frequently possible to feel as if...
Notch: ‘F2P is bait and switch and should be illegal’
Well, there's at least one game developer who hasn't sold his soul to F2P. That would be Markus "Notch" Persson, otherwise known as the creator...
SWTOR: Knights of the Fallen Empire makes large-scale operations and flashpoint changes
This autumn's Knights of the Fallen Empire won't be shaking up just the narrative foundation of Star Wars: The Old Republic but its group...
Perfect Ten: Ten lessons I learned as an MMO healer
Back in my World of Warcraft and RIFT days, I spent an awful lot of time in dungeon runs as a healer. I even...
An exclusive look at RIFT’s 2015 plans with Game Director Christopher Junior
Massively OP: We're here with RIFT Game Director Christopher Junior to talk about the state of the game and what's coming up this year. So...
BioWare creative director on getting back to SWTOR’s story
EA has released a new dev blog by Knights of the Fallen Empire creative director Jesse Sky. Sky likens Star Wars: The Old Republic's forthcoming...
Earn new EverQuest and Landmark rewards with the EQ Worlds app
It might be time to dig out that mostly-forgotten EverQuest Worlds mobile app, especially if you've been playing one of Daybreak's fantasy titles. The...
