‘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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Trion welcomes action-RPG Devilian into its fold
After a cryptic teaser site posted last week, Trion Worlds is finally ready to make its big announcement: The studio will be publishing Korean...
Hyperspace Beacon: The SWTOR community divide over Knights of the Fallen Empire
The past couple of weeks have been kind of strange for me. For five years, I've written about Star Wars :The Old Republic. I've...
Neverwinter’s Rise of Tiamat now available on Xbox One
The downside to playing Neverwinter on a console is that there's a bit of a lag time on all the various major updates to the...
Trion shuffles community managers for ArcheAge and its secret project
There's a new name on the community team for ArcheAge this week. Evan "Scapes" Berman has posted his farewell letter on the game's official forums, announcing his...
Chaos Theory: ‘Never say never’ for The Secret World housing
I have to admit, so many dreams were shot down this past week when the news came out suggesting that personal housing would never make...
Check out Lord of the Rings Online’s new PvP map
After eight years of being confined to a single zone, Lord of the Rings Online's PvP population will soon get a new map upon...
One Shots: Gazing at potential
Major props to reader John, who somehow managed to finagle screenshots from his PlayStation 4 to bring us this stunning Destiny vista. Back when...
Trove on graduating Beta University and heading into the real world
The stages of pre-launch development always conjure some measure of protection for a fledgling video game. It may be rough, but that's OK, it's...
The Daily Grind: Is SWTOR 2.0 a good move by BioWare?
I'm not going to lie to you: I'm almost equally divided between excitement and nervousness for Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the...
The Stream Team: The quest for more Wizard101 powers
After that really fun Battle of the Bands dungeon in Wizard101, MassivelyOP's MJ knew she had to return to fight those musical miscreants again....
WildStar begins Chinese beta this August
As WildStar is preparing to make the grand transition to free-to-play in the west this summer, it's simultaneously making in-roads into Asia with an...
Wargaming attempts to resolve World of Warships’ Humble Bundle debacle
Let us tell you a story. The story begins with the recent E3 Humble Bundle, through which Wargaming handed out not only access to World...
Massively Overthinking: Random encounters in MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter donor TheChiHawk, and it's coming from an unusually not-so-massive corner of gamesdom for us:
Are...
Fleet veteran heavy destroyers coming to Star Trek Online
Star Trek Online lead systems designer Phil Zeleski has penned a new dev blog concerning fleet veteran heavy destroyers. These tier six vessels will...
World of Tanks partners with Google for VR tank tours
World of Tanks players are quite familiar with their heavy armor -- but what would it feel like to actually be inside those terrifying...
Marvel Heroes’ Big 10 event returns with free Iron Man team-up
Marvel Heroes' second anniversary month is going out with a bang. After three weeks of cow invasions, free heroes, and escalating XP bonuses, Gazillion...
The Stream Team: Come to the SWTOR dark side…story
Did you get enough SWTOR news this week? Either way, why not join Massively OP's Larry and MJ to talk about it all as...
Trion Worlds teases creepy new game
Is the devil inside you? Trion Worlds is pretty sure it's the devil and not Intel, anyway. The studio behind MMOs RIFT, Defiance, and...
Anarchy Online’s new graphical engine is finally live
Anarchy Online has been on the verge of having a new graphics engine for what seems to be forever and a day, but it's...
E3 2015: WildStar is adding much more than F2P this fall
The fact that WildStar is transitioning to a free-to-play model this fall is old news now. Folks have been hashing out their opinions on...
