A new study from Insights Meta suggests that as many people download PC titles as buy them on disc, more than half as many who play console discs buy digital console content, and nearly 100 million people download free-to-play games.
Curse Voice, a relatively new competitor in gaming voice chat, aims to attract 10 million-plus users by the end of 2015 with features like Friend Sync.
Hot as zero-cost-to-entry is, implementing a freemium framework means overcoming a range of challenges and applying some deft design work in order to make the model fit.