Xfire: Free2Play is the future, League of Legends' player base skyrockets while WoW's declines (Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures)

Above: Free-to-play games are more popular than ever. But will they ever replace games that you have to buy to play?



$60 games are exploitative and free-to-play games are the future, says EA's Easy Studios general manager Ben Cousins... ...

Good news for League of Legends fans. Riot Games has officially announced League of Legends Dominion. It’s a new mode for the popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) and offers players a alternative to the traditional affair of pushing lanes and killing creeps... ...

It’s
happened. I am officially addicted to League of Legends – and I know I’m not
the only one. Xfire recently
reported sharp increase in League of Legends players – and now PC Gamer is featuring the free-to-play
MOBA game on the cover of its November issue (a first for the magazine).

Above: Once Alice: Madness Returns ships, American McGee’s Spicy Horse studio will be restructured to focus on free-to-play casual titles

Army of Two, Skate, NHL 10 and Need for Speed Most Wanted are among a handful of EA games slated to become local co-op only over the next few months. The mega-publisher revealed it will be ending online support for seventeen of its older titles in order to redirect its talent and resources toward titles that are, you know, actually being played online... ...

North Carolina State University computer scientists have used World of Warcraft to develop a method for predicting player behavior, which they say is up to 80% accurate and could have applications for developers wanting to tailor future content toward player desires.