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Genshin Impact has made $100m in just two weeks News Oct 12th, 2020

Genshin Impact has made $100m in just two weeks

Free-to-play title has made back its budget in less than 14 days

Rocket League shoots past 1m concurrent users after free-to-play move News Sep 25th, 2020

Rocket League shoots past 1m concurrent users after free-to-play move

Title hit 129,060 simultaneous players on Steam, too

Rocket League goes free-to-play, will be exclusive to Epic Games Store News Jul 22nd, 2020

Rocket League goes free-to-play, will be exclusive to Epic Games Store

Title won't be available on Steam after this switch

Nexon axes MMO MapleStory 2 News Mar 19th, 2020

Nexon axes MMO MapleStory 2

Servers to be shut down in May

SuperData: Fortnite made $1.8bn in 2019 alone News Jan 3rd, 2020

SuperData: Fortnite made $1.8bn in 2019 alone

PC games brought in $29.6bn for the year

Free-to-play shooter Warface hits 80m players News Oct 1st, 2019

Free-to-play shooter Warface hits 80m players

Publisher My.Games says new console users are to blame

Free-to-play Rocket League gets the greenlight for China launch News Jul 31st, 2019

Free-to-play Rocket League gets the greenlight for China launch

But there's no release date as of yet

SuperData: PC digital spending down four per cent year-on-year for April News May 22nd, 2019

SuperData: PC digital spending down four per cent year-on-year for April

Premium letting the side down with "modest growth" for free-to-play

Warframe celebrates six years of sci-fi swordfights with almost 50 million registered players News Mar 26th, 2019

Warframe celebrates six years of sci-fi swordfights with almost 50 million registered players

Nearly 50 million players have killed a combined 783 billion foes in the free-to-play shooter

Wargaming teams up with shooter veterans at Frag Lab for an Amazon-powered new IP News Mar 14th, 2019

Wargaming teams up with shooter veterans at Frag Lab for an Amazon-powered new IP

Eastern European duo will use everything from Lumberyard to Amazon Web Services to build a new free-to-play first-person shooter

Fortnite pulls ahead of Apex Legends in Twitch watch time rankings News Mar 7th, 2019

Fortnite pulls ahead of Apex Legends in Twitch watch time rankings

But EA and Respawn's battle royale game is still wildly popular

50m people have played Apex Legends in the last 28 days News Mar 4th, 2019

50m people have played Apex Legends in the last 28 days

Userbase has doubled in the last, er, fortnight

Final Fantasy brawler Dissidia NT heading to Steam as game goes free-to-play News Mar 1st, 2019

Final Fantasy brawler Dissidia NT heading to Steam as game goes free-to-play

Free-to-play port hopes to revive interest in the underperforming fighting title

Titanfall Fortnite rival Apex Legends played by 25m people in first week News Feb 12th, 2019

Titanfall Fortnite rival Apex Legends played by 25m people in first week

Hits two million concurrent users, too

EA stock hits 2019 high following dip and Apex Legends is likely the reason News Feb 11th, 2019

EA stock hits 2019 high following dip and Apex Legends is likely the reason

But has the free-to-play battle royale game's success damaged Anthem's chances?

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