CLUB closes $3.1M seed round for the first football ownership game
London based independent studio CLUB has closed $3.1 million in its first major round of funding. CLUB is the studio behind CLUB Game, the...
Scopely launches Kingdom Maker, a free-to-play medieval mobile game
Scopely revealed its new mobile game, a medieval fantasy title called Kingdom Maker. The free-to-play game is an RTS/RPG/MMO hybrid, and it launches today...
Why games studios should look to a free-to-play future
Presented by Anzu The free-to-play (F2P) model is nothing new. Many games, including Furcadia, Neopets, RuneScape, and MapleStory, have championed it for years and...
Day 1 players of F2P games are much more likely to still be there a year later
A new study shows a huge dropoff among players who start even a single month later, and suggests that if a F2P massively multiplayer online game can survive two years, it'll attract even more players.
Paid game downloads surge while free-to-play accounts for one-third of all gaming time
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.
Nintendo reveals its first experiments in free-to-play gaming
Nintendo experiments with free-to-play with two very different models.
Free-to-play games are having their Soupy Sales moment
It's too easy for kids to spend big bucks on games without their parents even knowing they do so -- until the credit card bill arrives. This is why there should be spending caps in free-to-play games.
Why you need to boost your customer service game
Customer service is tricky when it comes to gaming -- but it's a vital part of your title's success.
Japan’s Gree launches first U.S. mobile social game, Zombie Jombie
It’s just a cute little zombie game, but it could be the start of something big. Gree has become a billion-dollar company in Japan...
Spil Games has 170M monthly visitors who spend as much as $60 a month
Spil Games said today that it has 170 million monthly active visitors to its various teen-girl-focused game sites. People who play the free-to-play social...