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Microsoft charges ahead with free-to-play Warface on the Xbox 360 (interview)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Crysis maker Crytek is one of the hardcore video game makers that is experimenting with new platforms and business models. And in the case of Warface, the German video game maker is taking free-to-play gaming to the Xbox 360.

Crytek launched its first-person-shooter modern combat game on the PC last year and it got more than 7 million players in Russia. Then it launched the title on the PC last fall in the U.S. Now it will join Wargaming’s World of Tanks as the next major free-to-play game on the Xbox 360. We caught up with producer Wim Covaliers of Crytek Ukraine at a recent demo of the game. Here’s a transcript of our interview.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.