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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?

Titanfall battle royale game Apex Legends attracted 10m people in first three days News Feb 8th, 2019

Titanfall battle royale game Apex Legends attracted 10m people in first three days

Developer Respawn boasts of one million concurrent player peak

Warface studio Crytek Kiev goes indie, rebrands as Blackwood Games News Feb 7th, 2019

Warface studio Crytek Kiev goes indie, rebrands as Blackwood Games

Ukranian developer is the seventh branch of the middleware and games firm to get the cut in five years

Take-Two isn't interested in launching its own store News Feb 7th, 2019

Take-Two isn't interested in launching its own store

Rockstar parent firm says it wants to be in as many places where consumers are as possible

Updated: Apex Legends had close to 3m unique users in first 24 hours News Feb 5th, 2019

Updated: Apex Legends had close to 3m unique users in first 24 hours

Developer Respawn says this is what the studio is working on for the time being

Report: CS:GO played by 17 per cent of core PC gamers globally following battle royale addition and shift to free-to-play News Jan 24th, 2019

Report: CS:GO played by 17 per cent of core PC gamers globally following battle royale addition and shift to free-to-play

Newzoo records a rise of 39.3 per cent month-on-month

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