Big Fish Games launches its first free-to-play game on PCs and Macs
Big Fish Games is riding the biggest wave of change in the game business: free to play.
Bubble Witch Saga for iOS is the first mobile game to sync player progress with Facebook
Casual games developer King.com announced that its free-to-play title, Bubble Witch Saga, is now available on the iTunes App Store.
Free-to-play games catching MMO subscribers’ attention (and wallets)
The successful launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic notwithstanding, the business model of mandatory subscriptions for massively multiplayer online (MMO) games seems to...
Flaregames raises $7.9M from Accel for free-to-play mobile games (exclusive)
Flaregames has raised 6 million euros, or $7.9 million, in a funding round led by Accel Partners. The money will help beef up the...
Newzoo: Free-to-play MMO spending increases 24 percent in U.S.
Americans are spending 24 percent more on free-to-play massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) this year than they did in 2010, according to a new...
OpenFeint recruits game developer to lead free-to-play focus
OpenFeint has hired a game development leader to help its customers focus on making free-to-play mobile games. The move reflects the growing importance of...
Free-to-play mobile games to be highlighted at GamesBeat 2011
Today we’re revealing the sixth set of speakers for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. Our newest slate of speakers will be part of a...
Investors buy majority stake in online game maker Bigpoint for $350M
German online game publisher Bigpoint announced today that two major private equity firms have bought a majority stake in the company for $350 million....
English-language “free-to-play” online games will rake in $2B by 2015
With the growing popularity of free-to-play games on the PC, a new study from game market analyst DFC Intelligence reports that the English language...