Microsoft is preparing a free-to-play service for Xbox Live, incorporating Microsoft point-funded microtransactions, according to Develop sources.
The sources claim that Microsoft is courting developers to discuss possible free-to-play game deals monetised through either in-game purchases or premium upgrade options.
Hacking group LulzSec has disbanded following one last attack on EA's free-to-play Battlefield Heroes beta. Announcing an end to its activities via Twitter and a statement posted on a file sharing site, the group said that its "planned 50 day cruise has expired."
Until late last year, Brighton studio Relentless Software had spent its entire seven year history bound by an exclusivity deal with Sony.
Until late last year, Brighton studio Relentless Software had spent its entire seven year history bound by an exclusivity deal with Sony.
Despite constantly being touted for some time as the future for mobile gaming, new research has shown that HTML5 remains some way behind Flash in terms of performance.
Software architect Sean Christmann used his benchmarking tool, GUIMark, to assess the current disparity in performance between HTML5 and Flash on nine different mobile devices.
If the short story, as John Updike argued, is a room upon whose walls a number of fake doors have been placed, then a videogame adaptation offers it the chance to be transformed into a series of rooms upon whose walls a number of locked doors have been placed. That’s certainly been the fate of H. P. Lovecraft’s famously ghoulish tale The Outsider.
Duke Nukem Forever is number one in the Nordic chart, which collates sales data from Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, for a second successive week.
The Take-Two shooter, which became a byword for protracted development before Borderlands developer Gearbox Software was finally able to finish off the work started in 1997 by 3D Realms, retains top spot despite the release of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D, which makes its debut in third.
Sony is facing yet another lawsuit over its handling of the April attack on PSN which resulted in the personal data of over 100 million users being stolen.
Reuters reports that the lawsuit, a proposed class action filed at San Diego federal court this week, makes fresh claims that Sony did not do enough to protect its customers' data, and knew it was at risk because it had previously suffered smaller security breaches.
Class-based multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2 has made the switch to the free-to-play model, developer Valve has announced.
Valve recently opened up its Steam platform to free-to-play games, and just this week admitted it was at work on a free-to-play title of its own. Few expected, however, that an announcement was just around the corner, or that Valve's first free-to-play project would be one of the most popular multiplayer shooters around.
To truly appreciate what Obsidian Entertainment brings to Dungeon Siege III, you need to speak to the automaton standing watch at the mechanical gates to the city of Stonebridge. His animation is limited, his character model is lacking in detail and, to tell the truth, the location he guards isn’t a particularly rewarding place to explore. Yet, if you ask him to tell you a little about his home town, along with the usual fantasy shtick about goblins and men forging alliances, he’ll also admit that Stonebridge is home to hundreds of feral house cats.