SEGA's latest Q3'22 financials show that its massive F2P games are mostly popular in Japan while other worldwide regions buy up full games. SEGA makes quite a bit of revenue from F2P games like ...

Sony's decision to devote around a third of the entire runtime of its State of Play event last week to upcoming hero shooter Concord was a fairly clear statement of intent – the company's desire to ...

Detractors of free-to-play have been having a good few weeks, on the surface at least. There's been a steady drip-feed of articles and statements implying that premium-priced games are gaining ground ...

The free-to-play (F2P) model is nothing new. Many games, including Furcadia, Neopets, RuneScape, and MapleStory, have championed it for years and are still going strong to this day. However, like in ...

Free-to-play games are certainly the way of the future, available in the present. These electrifying entertainment attractions are reshaping the gaming world, and players are lapping it up in droves.

Taking a bulletpoint approach to the F2P Summit, Gamesbrief's Nicholas Lovell burst through his 15 Basic Rules of F2P. While players should be able to play for a minute, they should also be able to ...

Alex Co has been writing about games for 15 years and running, and is a huge fan of online shooters and anything horror related. Sloclap's Rematch soccer game will release as a $30 premium title, ...

Though some console game publishers are reluctant to adopt the free-to-play business model, EA is saying that it can be just as profitable as modern console games. Frank Gibeau, head of EA Games said ...

Fool that I am, I hadn't realised F2P games were using variable hard-to-soft currency rates until a couple of months ago. For research reasons, I started playing Capcom/Beeline's Snoopy Candy Town and ...

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The bear market pushes GameFi projects to rethink their user retention strategy: as daily token rewards become less attractive, the focus shifts to the long-term value of holding game NFTs and to free ...

The concept offree PC games might fill you with suspicion, and you’re not wrong to be wary of f2p models. But happily enough, some of the best titles out there today are available free of charge, and ...