F2P Archive

  • Thought it would be interesting to check out PC gaming’s renaissance. Specifically, I wanted to quickly canvass all the interesting Free-to-Play (F2P) FPS games set to release soon.  The following titles are really close to being finished. Some are actually worth the wait! Blacklight: Retribution Blacklight: Retribution is a F2P FPS developed by Zombie Studios. It’s yet another in a...

    What’s Coming up

    Posted on February 8, 2012 | 1 Comment
    Thought it would be interesting to check out PC gaming’s renaissance. Specifically, I wanted to quickly canvass all the interesting Free-to-Play (F2P) FPS games set to release soon.  The following titles are really close to being finished. Some are actually worth the wait! Blacklight: Retribution Blacklight: Retribution is a F2P FPS developed by Zombie Studios. It’s yet another in a...

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  • On February 2nd, Hi-rez Studios released patch 0.1.742.0 for its F2P sci-fi shooter Tribes: Ascend. This patch was rather significant and resulted in a significant server down-time. Given the number of changes being made in the game, Tribes’ developer felt it necessary to zero the playing field and reset all the items owned by players in the Beta. If you...

    Tribes: Ascend Closed Beta Version resets

    Posted on February 4, 2012 | No Comments
    On February 2nd, Hi-rez Studios released patch 0.1.742.0 for its F2P sci-fi shooter Tribes: Ascend. This patch was rather significant and resulted in a significant server down-time. Given the number of changes being made in the game, Tribes’ developer felt it necessary to zero the playing field and reset all the items owned by players in the Beta. If you...

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  • I have to be quite honest here, I really had no intention of playing Hi-Rez Studio’s F2P sci-fi shooter, Tribes: Ascend (currently in Beta).  The reason I didn’t want to play it was not because I’ve been feeling FPS-F2P overload recently. Sure, I’d been in too many ill-conceived FPS Betas the last few weeks…but that wasn’t it.  Nor was it because...

    Tribes: Ascend in Beta

    Posted on January 15, 2012 | 1 Comment
    I have to be quite honest here, I really had no intention of playing Hi-Rez Studio’s F2P sci-fi shooter, Tribes: Ascend (currently in Beta).  The reason I didn’t want to play it was not because I’ve been feeling FPS-F2P overload recently. Sure, I’d been in too many ill-conceived FPS Betas the last few weeks…but that wasn’t it.  Nor was it because...

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  • In my early gaming life, back in the late 80′s and early 90′s, the most iconic game you could load up on your computer — in fact, the original killer app — was Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFSim).  Originally released for the Apple II as FS1 Flight Simulator,  “Flight Sim” as it became known, pre-dated PC gaming and was the original...

    Microsoft Flight F2P

    Posted on January 4, 2012 | 4 Comments
    In my early gaming life, back in the late 80′s and early 90′s, the most iconic game you could load up on your computer — in fact, the original killer app — was Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFSim).  Originally released for the Apple II as FS1 Flight Simulator,  “Flight Sim” as it became known, pre-dated PC gaming and was the original...

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  • The gaming press was all abuzz over the announcement from marketer-extraordinaire, Dusty Welch. The attention he was given was not surprising, after all, Welch helped move over $3B in product while he was Senior Vice President and Head of Publishing at Activision and that kind of success will get you noticed. Of the three billion, two billion came from leading...

    U4iA Games

    Posted on December 3, 2011 | 2 Comments
    The gaming press was all abuzz over the announcement from marketer-extraordinaire, Dusty Welch. The attention he was given was not surprising, after all, Welch helped move over $3B in product while he was Senior Vice President and Head of Publishing at Activision and that kind of success will get you noticed. Of the three billion, two billion came from leading...

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  • Danish independent gamestudio Reto-Moto announced today that Jesper Kyd will be composing the score for their new browser-based, persistent FPS/Strategy game Heroes & Generals. For those of you who may not know Kyd, he was behind the award-winning music in Assassin’s Creed and Hitman. Have a listen to this snippet of the score that Reto-Moto just released: Personally, I think...

    Heroes & Generals get Jesper Kyd

    Posted on November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Danish independent gamestudio Reto-Moto announced today that Jesper Kyd will be composing the score for their new browser-based, persistent FPS/Strategy game Heroes & Generals. For those of you who may not know Kyd, he was behind the award-winning music in Assassin’s Creed and Hitman. Have a listen to this snippet of the score that Reto-Moto just released: Personally, I think...

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  • During the recent Ubisoft Digital Day in London, Ubisoft’s marketing group manager for online gaming, Thomas Paincon talked about his company’s latest IP, the FPS game developed by Nadeo called Shootmania.  What? Not heard of Shootmania? Bet you’ve heard of Trackmania or Trackmania 2 (Canyon, Nadeo’s latest racing game) though. Trackmania is Nadeo’s famous online arcade racing game of course...

    Shootmania

    Posted on November 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
    During the recent Ubisoft Digital Day in London, Ubisoft’s marketing group manager for online gaming, Thomas Paincon talked about his company’s latest IP, the FPS game developed by Nadeo called Shootmania.  What? Not heard of Shootmania? Bet you’ve heard of Trackmania or Trackmania 2 (Canyon, Nadeo’s latest racing game) though. Trackmania is Nadeo’s famous online arcade racing game of course...

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  • A new, community inspired,  online clan-wars site started up today for Battlefield Play For Free.  The Battlefield Play For Free League, as it’s called, is an endeavor by the stalwart European Battlefield group, Old Guys  Gaming Community (www.oldguys.eu). This site will will allow teams, clans or even just a few guys who want to get a bit more serious about...

    Battlefield P4F League

    Posted on November 21, 2011 | 2 Comments
    A new, community inspired,  online clan-wars site started up today for Battlefield Play For Free.  The Battlefield Play For Free League, as it’s called, is an endeavor by the stalwart European Battlefield group, Old Guys  Gaming Community (www.oldguys.eu). This site will will allow teams, clans or even just a few guys who want to get a bit more serious about...

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  • A few months ago, yet another entrant into the Free-to-Play (F2P) arena was announced: Crytek’s Warface. Crytek joins a very impressive list of gaming companies bringing their franchises into the F2P world. Today, we look at the swing towards the free-model and especially, we take a belated peek at Warface, a game that may indeed change the face of war...

    Crytek’s Warface F2P

    Posted on October 29, 2011 | 2 Comments
    A few months ago, yet another entrant into the Free-to-Play (F2P) arena was announced: Crytek’s Warface. Crytek joins a very impressive list of gaming companies bringing their franchises into the F2P world. Today, we look at the swing towards the free-model and especially, we take a belated peek at Warface, a game that may indeed change the face of war...

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  • ACONY’s Community Manager, Chris “Ulric” Dye recently contacted BASHandSlash.com and provided us with feedback to the article we posted on Hedone, the new F2P shooter Acony is working on. In addition to taking the time to officially respond to our article, Chris also offered the answers to a few bonus questions we posed him:   In reference to your “barriers”...

    Acony’s CM on Hedone

    Posted on October 27, 2011 | No Comments
    ACONY’s Community Manager, Chris “Ulric” Dye recently contacted BASHandSlash.com and provided us with feedback to the article we posted on Hedone, the new F2P shooter Acony is working on. In addition to taking the time to officially respond to our article, Chris also offered the answers to a few bonus questions we posed him:   In reference to your “barriers”...

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