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Former Square Enix Exec Keiji Fujita Joins Adways Interactive
Former Square Enix and Taito executive Keiji Fujita has joined Japanese mobile ad network and game publisher Adways, the company announced today. Fujita will take the reins of the company's San...
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Xbox Live's Only Free-to-Play Game Happy Wars Downloaded More Than Two...
Microsoft, who is not all that good at adding free-to-play games to its Xbox Live service for Xbox 360 (there are only a couple at this point), is probably happy that it allowed the free-to-play and...
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Ridiculous Fishing Developer: Don't Be Afraid to Price that Game at $3
Ridiculous Fishing and Serious Sam: Random Encounter developer Vlambeer says that "non-evil" free-to-play game design is almost impossible and that game developers should not be afraid to price their...
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TERA: Rising Membership Soars in February After Free-to-Play Transition
En Masse Entertainment’s MMO TERA: Rising has seen a dramatic increase in registered users after the game went free-to-play in February. TERA: Rising now has over 1.4 million users following its...
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Blizzard Reveals First F2P Game: Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Blizzard's first foray into free-to-play isn't an MMO, or an online action or strategy game - it's a collectible card game based on the popular Warcraft universe. Today at PAX East (even as it was...
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Report: Supercell Valued at $800 Million
Finland-based free-to-play game studio Supercell is valued at around $800 million after its latest funding round. The developer behind the hit F2P mobile titles Clash of Clans and Hay Day sold off...
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UK's Office of Fair Trading Investigating Free-to-Play Games
UK agency the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has begun contacting game developers and publishers as part of an investigation to determine if any free-to-play games are acting within the law. While the...
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UKIE: We Will Assist OFT in Free-to-Play Investigation
Responding to news that the UK regulatory agency the Office of Fair Trading is investigating free-to-play game practices, the UK video games trade body UKIE issued a statement saying that it would...
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OFT Public Survey Questions on Free-To-Play Gaming Habits Revealed
Earlier in the week we learned that UK regulatory agency the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) had begun investigating free-to-play models in mobile and online games that used questionable practices to...
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Peter Molyneux Voices Concern Over Future Regulations in the UK Stemming From...
Developers must be careful of how they manage their free-to-play games. Speaking to Develop Editor Will Freeman at the F2P Summit, Peter Molyneux warned developers of the dangers that a set of...
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Valve Launches Steam Subscription Service
Valve Software announced that the very first game to make use of its freshly launched support for subscriptions is the MMO Darkfall Unholy Wars, with "additional subscription-based games to...
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Federal Court Approves Apple's Proposed 'Free-to-Play' App Settlement Plan
Courthouse News reports that Apple's plan to settle with parents over its failure to get parental consent before minors made purchases in various apps has been approved by a federal court. Apple's...
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Report: UK Parents Soaked for Millions a Month in 'Unauthorized' In-App...
According to a report in the UK newspaper The Guardian - citing data from a recent Microsoft survey - as much as £30.9 million in purchases a month are made by children without their parents' consent....
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Develop Finds Majority of Apps Do Not Warn About In-App Purchases
An investigation examining 400 apps conducted by Develop shows that there is a lack of consistency in the way in-game purchases are presented on digital stores. The investigation follows the UK...
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ESRB Warns Wartunes 'Publisher' about Using AO Rating in Marketing Campaign
An online marketing campaign for the free-to-play MMO game Wartune has caught the attention of the ESRB, who claims that it has asked the game's "publisher" to stop claiming that it has an ESRB...
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Wargaming Providing Financial Support to Three Open Source Software Foundations
Free-to-play MMO developer and publisher Wargaming (World of Tanks, World of Warplanes, and World of Warships) has announced that it will provide financial support for three open-source foundations....
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Killer Instinct for Free - Sort Of
Besides serving up the most misogynistic moment of E3 so far (during the press conference when the Killer Instinct lead told an Xbox Community Manager to "Just let it happen, it'll be over soon"),...
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PlayStation Plus Requirement for Free-To-Play Up to Publishers, Says SOE
If you decide to play certain free-to-play MMO-style games on the PlayStation 4 you may not need to have a PlayStation Plus subscription. According to Sony Online Entertainment, publishers of those...
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Blizzard Considering Additional Microtransactions in World of Warcraft
After an in-game store was discovered on a World of Warcraft test server, Blizzard publicly acknowledged that it is looking into adding microtransactions to its long-running MMORPG. In response to...
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World of Warcraft Microtransactions Confirmed
The World of Warcraft version 5.4 update is alive and kicking on the Public Test Realm today, according to Blizzard. According to the patch notes, the update adds a new siege, flexible raid difficulty,...
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