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Edge Case Games is halting work on Fractured Space News Oct 29th, 2018

Edge Case Games is halting work on Fractured Space

"It's been an amazing and emotional journey"

Dreadnought developer makes a third of its staff redundant after launch Job News Oct 23rd, 2018

Dreadnought developer makes a third of its staff redundant after launch

Six Foot informed staff of financial troubles as early as August

Three years and more than 28m players later, what has Wargaming learnt running World of Warships? Interviews & Opinion Sep 18th, 2018

Three years and more than 28m players later, what has Wargaming learnt running World of Warships?

European publisher director Rajeev Girdhar talks running a service-based game, how the team approaches free-to-play and working across multiple platforms

Updated: LawBreakers servers have been taken online News Sep 18th, 2018

Updated: LawBreakers servers have been taken online

Two months after the game was axed

Athlon Games is developing a new free-to-play Lord of the Rings MMORPG News Sep 5th, 2018

Athlon Games is developing a new free-to-play Lord of the Rings MMORPG

LA studio is partnering with an undisclosed developer to create a triple-A quality online game

You can now play (a very limited version of) Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for free News Aug 31st, 2018

You can now play (a very limited version of) Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for free

Free players are restricted to bot matches and spectating other players’ games

Faeria’s Jean-Michel Vilain: “In a lot of ways we felt like we were breaking new ground” Feature Aug 29th, 2018

Faeria’s Jean-Michel Vilain: “In a lot of ways we felt like we were breaking new ground”

Belgian studio explains its decision to move away from free-to-play

Id Software wanted Quake Champions to be “ready for the floodgates to open” before going free-to-play News Aug 13th, 2018

Id Software wanted Quake Champions to be “ready for the floodgates to open” before going free-to-play

But despite the model change, Champions is still in Early Access for the time being

EA "interested" in experimenting with standalone free-to-play battle royale game News Jul 30th, 2018

EA "interested" in experimenting with standalone free-to-play battle royale game

Publisher potentialy after them Fortnite dollars

Poor launch sees The Culling 2 get the axe, developer Xaviant returns to original game News Jul 18th, 2018

Poor launch sees The Culling 2 get the axe, developer Xaviant returns to original game

“I think most of you know that last week we launched The Culling 2, and that launch was not successful"

2K to close Evolve, servers and currency going down in coming months News Jun 4th, 2018

2K to close Evolve, servers and currency going down in coming months

Turtle Rock’s 4v1 monster hunt turned out to be an evolutionary dead-end

Opinion: Radical Heights is a masterclass in how not to release a game Interviews & Opinion May 15th, 2018

Opinion: Radical Heights is a masterclass in how not to release a game

How an out-dated approach to Early Access and a business model that worked against it spelled disaster for Boss Key Productions

What Boss Key has learnt from LawBreakers for battle royale title Radical Heights Interviews & Opinion Apr 16th, 2018

What Boss Key has learnt from LawBreakers for battle royale title Radical Heights

Just days after the studio called time on its team shooter, the firm is back with a free-to-play battle royale title

LawBreakers studio Boss Key's next game is 80s-styled free-to-play battle royale game Radical Heights News Apr 10th, 2018

LawBreakers studio Boss Key's next game is 80s-styled free-to-play battle royale game Radical Heights

Launches into Early Access today, will be there for about a year

Fortnite Battle Royale wasn’t always intended to be free-to-play News Mar 22nd, 2018

Fortnite Battle Royale wasn’t always intended to be free-to-play

Epic Games reveals the game mode was developed in just two months

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