F2P Archive

  • 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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  • Back in the spring, we heard that Ubisoft’s third-person shooter Ghost Recon was going to make its foray into the F2P arena. Soon thereafter, Ubisoft unveiled the new branding for the F2P version: Ghost Recon Online (GRO). The announcement of a Beta followed. Well, here is an update on the game and on the Beta. Ubisoft Singapore, the game’s developers,...

    Ghost Recon goes F2P

    Posted on October 22, 2011 | No Comments
    Back in the spring, we heard that Ubisoft’s third-person shooter Ghost Recon was going to make its foray into the F2P arena. Soon thereafter, Ubisoft unveiled the new branding for the F2P version: Ghost Recon Online (GRO). The announcement of a Beta followed. Well, here is an update on the game and on the Beta. Ubisoft Singapore, the game’s developers,...

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  • I just received a nice note from Ken A., the PR & Marketing Coordinator at the new Danish independent gamestudio called Reto-Moto.  Reto-Moto were the original founders of IO Interactive. They broke free of the publisher’s chains to make a browser-based persistent WWII FPS/Strategy game called Heroes & Generals. An overview of the game can be read here. Ken wrote...

    Heroes & Generals

    Posted on October 10, 2011 | 2 Comments
    I just received a nice note from Ken A., the PR & Marketing Coordinator at the new Danish independent gamestudio called Reto-Moto.  Reto-Moto were the original founders of IO Interactive. They broke free of the publisher’s chains to make a browser-based persistent WWII FPS/Strategy game called Heroes & Generals. An overview of the game can be read here. Ken wrote...

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  • German developer Acony’s Hedone is one of three free-to-play shooters scheduled for late 2011-release that many gamers hope will alter the current paradigm in the free-to-play world. While previous F2P games garnered attention simply due to the fact that they were free,  Hedone, Warcry and Blacklight Retribution (all built on the UE3 engine) are currently being looked upon to  close...

    Hedone in Beta

    Posted on October 10, 2011 | 1 Comment
    German developer Acony’s Hedone is one of three free-to-play shooters scheduled for late 2011-release that many gamers hope will alter the current paradigm in the free-to-play world. While previous F2P games garnered attention simply due to the fact that they were free,  Hedone, Warcry and Blacklight Retribution (all built on the UE3 engine) are currently being looked upon to  close...

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  • As you have noticed, I’ve decided to steer this website a little toward Free-to-Play FPS games. This does not mean I am completely turning my back on the For-Pay AAA FPS titles, I just happen to think that Free-to-Play’s future  may be quite bright.   My experience with F2P I never gave Free-to-Play (F2P) games much thought until recently. While...

    Free to Pay or Free to Play

    Posted on September 29, 2011 | 3 Comments
    As you have noticed, I’ve decided to steer this website a little toward Free-to-Play FPS games. This does not mean I am completely turning my back on the For-Pay AAA FPS titles, I just happen to think that Free-to-Play’s future  may be quite bright.   My experience with F2P I never gave Free-to-Play (F2P) games much thought until recently. While...

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