Star Wars: The Old Republic reaches 1M registered users in less than a week
Over one million people have registered to play Star Wars: The Old Republic less than one week into the game’s launch, making it the fastest-growing...
Report: Sci-fi MMOs dominated by free-to-play players
As Electronic Arts prepares to release its heavily publicized, subscription-based online game Star Wars: The Old Republic, market analysis firm Newzoo has released new...
World of Warcraft patched as Blizzard Entertainment tries to reverse declining subscriptions
Blizzard Entertainment released a huge patch on Tuesday for its hit game World of Warcraft, as part of an effort to turn around a...
Over $1K for a virtual spaceship? 2000 Dark Orbit players say ‘yes’
In the world of free-to-play games, there is a theory that small numbers of players are willing to spend large amounts of money on...
RuneScape, the world’s most popular free-to-play MMO, gets a facelift
Jagex has today announced a brand new website and logo for its free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), Runescape. The browser-based game currently...
Free-to-play transition brings seven-fold revenue increase for DC Universe Online
The potentially risky move of taking DC Universe Online , the massively multiplayer online (MMO) game from Sony Online Entertainment, to a free-to-play model,...
DC Universe Online gains a million new players with free-to-play transition
A million new players have signed up for Sony Online Entertainment’s massively multiplayer online game DC Universe Online following its transition to a free-to-play business model last...
Blizzard details World of Warcraft: Cataclysm’s epic finale
Blizzard Entertainment isn’t known for doing things small. That holds especially true for the World of Warcraft’s next content patch, which will bring a close...
EA’s Secret World online game is nothing like World of Warcraft
Electronic Arts already has a game like Blizzard Entertainment’s supergiant online game, World of Warcraft, in the works — but it looks like the...
Outspark announces digital distribution platform for online games
Outspark, a publisher of free-to-play online games, is launching a new digital distribution platform today called Flint. The platform will help third parties distribute...