Quickly becoming the standard for free-to-play PC games, Founders' packs give players a chance to forego post-launch nickle-and-dime content into one massive down payment. What does $100 get you in the DC Comics take on League of Legends?
After listening to this week's episode of This American Life on software patents, I was curious to investigate patents within the gaming sphere. Although we routinely hear
Infinite Crisis—the free-to-play MOBA
Asheron's Call 2 lives again! ... If you're an Asheron's Call subscriber, that is. If so, you can now play for free.
Has it really been five years since Turbine took the world's most beloved fantasy world and transformed it into a massively multiplayer online game adored by a handful of players until it went free-to-play? Well I sure hope so; otherwise this post is pretty pointless.
Dungeons & Dragons Online's Menace of the Underdark expansion
The most disappointing aspect of Dungeons & Dragons Online was that the game was set in Stormreach instead of the much more popular Forgotten Realms campaign setting. Turbine rectifies that mistake with the first expansion pack for the six-year-old MMO, Menace of the Underdark.
Turbine, developers of Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online, have sent out an email this evening warning users that the studio's forum accounts may have been compromised.
It's been five years since Turbine opened the port of Smuggler's Rest to adventurers heeding the call of Dungeons & Dragons Online, and to Smuggler's Rest they'll return for the new quests and special gifts of a special anniversary event.
In a podcast, the developers of Lord of the Rings Online said that the switch over to a freemium play model has already tripled the revenue coming in from the MMO.
Turbine marks three years' worth of plunging players headlong into the magical world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth with discounts for folks who'd like to stick around a little bit longer.
Warner Bros. video game family grows again today, as does the its ownership of things that fall under The Lord of the Rings brand, with the acquisition of developer Turbine, maker of The Lord of the Rings Online.
Exploring alternative commerce models for Dungeons & Dragons Online, Turbine recently created an offer wall, where players could complete "special offers" in exchange for points. Due to tremendous negative user feedback, Turbine has now torn down that wall.
After nearly 11 years of humanoid player characters, Turbine updates ancient MMO Asheron's Call with a new playable race, with three more on the way this year.
Proving once again that people really enjoy free games, Turbine announces that more than a million new players have joined Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited since its re-launch as a free-to-play game last September.
Can you believe Asheron's Call is still running 10 years after its November 2nd, 1999 release? Turbine can, and it's celebrating in style with events throughout the day for the diehard fans still grinding away.
Since moving to a free-to-play model, Dungeons & Dragons online has seen a 40 percent increase in subscribers, the developer Turbine said in an interview with Ars Technica
Turbine has announced the December release date for the next Lord of the Rings Online expansion, The Siege of Mirkwood, with an adventurer's pack also available to help jumpstart the journey beyond Moria.
At GDC Austin, the vice president for product development at Turbine said the next generation of MMORPGs will be on consoles, and if that wasn't concession enough, he went so far as to say consoles are a "superior" mode.
Turbine, maker of Dungeons & Dragons Online, has a busy legal department of late. In addition to suing Atari
After a rather lucrative week's worth of testing the waters, Turbine has launched Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited, the free-to-play rebirth of Dungeons & Dragons Online.
Days away from opening up to the general public, Turbine is already overwhelmed by the positive performance of the newly free-to-play Dungeons & Dragons Online Unlimited.
The Lord of the Rings Online world expands further this fall, as Turbine unveils the Siege of Mirkwood, a newest expansion pack for the Middle Earth-flavored massively multiplayer online game.
Atari responded to today with a sharp denunciation of the breach-of-contract lawsuit filed last week by Turbine
Turbine slapped Atari with a $30 million lawsuit two weeks ahead of the launch date for Turbine's free-to-play massively multiplayer online game, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited.
Dungeons & Dragons Online's transition into free-to-play game enters a 10x10 room. Up ahead is its original August release date. It rushes forward...pit trap! Saving throw failed, one month delay.
At the "The State of the MMO" panel at Comic-Con, five massively-multiplayer devs weighed in on the positive changes coming to the genre, lacing as much marketing into their answers as humanly possible.
Turbine has selected an early August date for the release of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited, the update that switches the massively multiplayer D&D game to a free-to-play business model.
Not just about making the game free-to-play, the upcoming Eberron Unlimited upgrade for Dungeons & Dragons Online brings new adventures, a raised level cap, and a whole new class - Favored Soul.
