Phantasy Star Online 2’s Cash Shop – It’s Just Ridiculous
There are vanity items, then there are the items that went live with the cash shop inside Phantasy Star Online 2. Launched just yesterday, the cash shop went online with […]
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The First Twenty Hours: Rusty Hearts Review
Rusty Hearts, currently in Open Beta, is being crafted by Stairway Games in conjunction with Perfect World Entertainment. PWE should sound familiar. The growing Chinese company is responsible for publishing […]
FireFall Bringing Lovely Loot, Dynamic Events & Engaging Engineers
Executive Producer James MacCauley takes iTZKooPA on a whizzbang tour of FireFall. The dynamic duo preview the just-revealed Engineer class, detail the free-to-play title’s cash shop, jump into a dynamic […]
Rusty Hearts Bring Side-scrolling Beat-em Ups to the F2P Market
iTZKooPA chats up producer Mark Hill about Rusty Hearts, one of two titles coming this year from Perfect World Entertainment. The interview discusses the title’s tight narrative, content plans, balance, […]
A Quick Look at the Global Agenda Store
With the relatively recent switch to a free-to-play model, Global Agenda has received one thing that all F2P games have in common – a cash-shop. The amount of items currently […]
Free-To-Play Continues To Pay: LotRO Doubles Revenues
What once may have been considered a gamble now looks like it’s on the way to becoming the default model for modern MMOs to follow. At least, you’d certainly think […]
PAX Prime ’10: Lord of the Rings Online F2P Developer Interview
After suffering through dead laptops, blistered feet, and hours of video encoding, we’re happy to (finally) kick off our PAX coverage, and what better to start with than the most […]
The New Breed Of F2P Games
The touted free-to-play model has traditionally been associated with a less-than-polished experience, dull game mechanics, and the overpowering influence of a cash-shop. Most F2P games have already enjoyed success in […]