Summon The Gods! It's Time For Tower Defense
Cartoonish graphics, simple and intuitive game play, free-to-play, Oh My Gods: Tower Defence has it all, and yet even though it's a grand game that's 100 percent free, it's not exactly a perfect ten.
Third-Graders Really Don't Like Video Games Tracking What They Do
By now, most adults are used to the idea that the software and services they use—including video games—record what they do to send feedback to the companies that make them. But when some third-graders found out that games they love have some kind of data-mining, it was a heartbreaking combination of funny and sad.
Kids Reveal The Real Flaws Of Free-To-Play Games
If a certain system can be used to trick children into spending thousands of dollars, then it's probably not a very ethical system.
Real Racing 3 is a Beautiful Game Strangled By Freemium Nonsense
In 2009, Australian developer Firemint released Real Racing for the iPhone, stunning mobile gamers with amazing visuals and setting the standard for realistic mobile racing games. In 2010 the studio released Real Racing 2, adding licensed cars from major manufacturers and online play for up to 16 players. In May of…
There are Plenty of Ways to Pay in the Free-to-Play Real Racing 3
Firemonkeys' eagerly-anticipated Real Racing 3 is the first free-to-play entry in the popular mobile racing franchise. How far you can get without paying real money depends entirely on how much patience you possess—do you mind waiting 10 minutes for tire repair?
There's Something Strange in iOS' Neighborhood. You Know Who to Call.
Available today on iTunes, Beeline Interactive's Ghostbusters is a freemium game about busting ghosts, which I've heard makes people feel good.
There's No Such Thing as a Free-to-Play Game
Some Free-to-Play Games Work Out Just Like Shareware Used to: Badly
Gamers who are old enough to remember the PC experience before AOL brought dial-up internet access into everyone's homes will probably also remember shareware. My family had dozens of these discs and, later, CD-ROMS over the years. Each one promised HUNDREDS! OF! GAMES! and while most were simply trashy clones of some …
Once Crysis 3 is Done, Crytek will be Working on Nothing but…
Crytek is building Warface, the studio's first freemium shooter, shown recently at E3. It's also going to deliver Crysis 3, a more traditional FPS, sometime in 2013. Whenever the studio finishes off its current committments, CEO Cevat Yerli told VideoGamer.com, it will be developing free-to-play games only.
Zynga's Next Big Game Sounds Like ... a Farmville Sequel
Zynga's next big Facebook game is an improved version of FarmVille currently beta testing under the name Big Harvest, reports TechCrunch. Their source says the game is being tested out in the Phillippines.
The Emotions Free-to-Play Games Prey on to Get Players to Pay
"In a freemium game it's not a rational decision to pay; it's an emotional one." Wednesday at the East Coast Games Conference in North Carolina, former BioWare design manager Ethan Levy explained how free-to-play games can harness to emotions of their players in order to profit.
Nearly 40% Of The US Population Enjoys Free-To-Play Games, And Bunches …
Free-to-play games are all the rage here in 2012. With MMOs, social games, and mobile games leading the way, some analysts see the model
Would You Pay $1,300 for a Virtual Spaceship? [Update]
When EVE Online began selling premium vanity items
Study: Bulk of iPhone Game Earnings Come From "Free" Titles
Nearly two-thirds of all revenue generated from the top 100 games in the Apple App store in June came from people spending cash inside "free" games, according to a recent study.
D.C. Universe Online Adds Microtransaction Support
D.C. Universe Online has launched something called the "DCUO Marketplace," and while its shelves are pretty bare, what it could portend down the line is worth paying attention, if not cash.
EA Sports and Major League Baseball Reconnect on Facebook
It's not the return of MVP Baseball, the long lost and lamented Major League Baseball title that went into exile after 2005, but EA Sports has gotten back on the field with MLB in World Series Superstars, a Facebook game rumored to be in development
Company of Heroes Online in Glorious Motion
Company of Heroes Online isn't just a straight remake of the original, addictive real-time strategy game, it takes that experience and fixes almost everything wrong with it.
EA: We Will Not Charge For "Traditionally Free Game Demos"
Electronic Arts tells Kotaku that while they're exploring different downloadable game strategies, they do not plan to charge gamers for "traditionally free game demos."
Home Produces Sodium
PlayStation Home is moving its social network toward the gaming space by releasing a real, honest-to-god video game through Home. Meet Sodium, "an arcade shooter in an MMO wrapper."
The Chronicles Of Spellborn Free Level Cap Increased
Apparently 7 free levels weren't enough to entice players to pay up, as Acclaim raises the free-to-play level cap for The Chronicles of Spellborn to 9.9.