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Visceral Games has justified the controversial microtransaction system in Dead Space 3 by claiming mobile gamers expect them now. Well, that's a totally reasonable ... wait, what? "There’s a lot of players out there, es...
| Jim Sterling |
Dead Space 3 is going to see a fair few changes, boasting a faster pace, cover-based shooting, and a weapon crafting system. While I'm not a big fan of some of the alterations, the one thing I did find praiseworthy was that l...
| Jim Sterling |
Final Fantasy is close to being the Star Wars of the videogame industry, and not in a positive way. Square Enix, the George Lucas of this particularly scenario, has done a fine job exploiting its brand to almost damaging prop...
| Jim Sterling |
Free-to-play was a good idea, and some surprisingly great games were coming out of the market. Then the big publishers took notice and decided to go overboard. Not only is Ubisoft planning a slew of F2P games to flood the mar...
| Jim Sterling |
Popular online retailer Amazon has unveiled a new service designed specifically for the ever-growing free-to-play market. Game Connect provides an easy space for developers to link their freemium titles, and allows users to m...
| Jim Sterling |
Phew! That was a close one. When Square Enix revealed their second go around for Final Fantasy VII on PC, fears were instilled among the masses that the new "Character Booster" tool would utilize a microtransaction based mode...
| Chris Carter |
After a long and lengthy legal battle, it seems as if a distributed playable version of Scrolls is finally here. Along with the game's recent trailer, Mojang has just announced that the game has officially gone alpha (you kno...
| Chris Carter |
According to Electronic Arts' COO Peter Moore, the future is in free-to-play, with microtransactions becoming the defacto way we buy our interactive entertainment in years to come. According to the cat-like executive, every g...
| Jim Sterling |
Blizzard has yet again delayed Diablo III's Real Money Auction House (RMAH). When the game launched, the expected release date was 5/22, then it was pushed to 5/29, and now Blizzard has no idea when it will truly be ready as ...
| Chris Carter |
ArenaNet has finally spilled the beans on the details of microtransactions in the upcoming Guild Wars 2. The latest blog post by Mike O'Brian, president of ArenaNet, explains what we can expect. Players will be able to b...
| Joshua Derocher |
We have a somewhat more somber Office Chat for you today, as we lament the passing of GamePro. Dale North has some trouble understanding why people buy pointless virtual junk. Meanwhile, Jordan Devore may very well have...
| Conrad Zimmerman |
As you may have heard, The phaser-firing, starship-riding MMO Star Trek Online will be going free-to-play sometime this year, as did its Cryptic-developed cousin Champions Online. Of course, players both potent...
| Josh Tolentino |
Space: The Final Frontier. The voyages of the MMORPG Star Trek Online are about to head into some new space, as the game is set to board the Free-to-Play starship "by the end of 2011", said the Chief Financial Officer at Perf...
| Josh Tolentino |
A new Theme Park game is headed to iOS later this year, and it will be embracing the "Freemium" model, where microtransactions are required. We'd heard that Theme Park was coming, but I think most had expected a straight port...
| Jim Sterling |
Hey guys, today we're giving a wrap up of EVO2K news, including Capcom's next plans for the 3DS, and two new characters for Street Fighter X Tekken. There's suddenly a bunch of crazy news about Diablo III, like the addition ...
| Max Scoville |
In honor of the upcoming Rally to Restore Sanity/March to Keep Fear Alive I shall deliver all the news this weekend twice: First the sane way, and then the fear way. It's the weekend, I get to do stuff like this (I hope... pl...
| Matthew Razak |
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