 
Rift Goes F2P
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 May 15, 2013 • Starting June 12, Trion Worlds' Rift: Planes of Telara MMO will become free-to-play. The transition will occur with the upcoming 2.3: Empyreal Assault update. Existing subscribers will get Patron status that confers additional bonuses that grant buffs to experience, currency, notoriety, and a number of additional convenience benefits that enhance the ...Continue Reading Amazon Coins Arrive MAY 14, 2013 • Much like FaceBook and Xbox Live before it, Amazon.com introduced its own virtual coin currency. Amazon Coins can be employed to purchase apps, games and in-app items in the Amazon Appstore and on Kindle Fire. Existing Kindle Fire owners received 500 coins free (a $5 value). Amazon is selling coins in ...Continue Reading Google Gets Social With Games MAY 13, 2013 • Up until now connecting Android gamers to each other via leader boards, achievements, invites, lobbies, cloud saving and multiplayer match-ups has been a niche filled by third-parties such as OpenFeint, Gree and OpenKit. Now it is reported that Google itself is stepping up with its own solution called Google Play Games. ...Continue Reading Another Android Console MAY 9, 2013 • There's a new player in the rush to bring Android games to the living room, GamePop. The new console and service comes from GameStacks, the company that markets an app to run Android content on Macs and PCs. Scheduled for a release later this year, GamePop is expected to launch with ...Continue Reading Sony Builds PS3s in Brazil MAY 8, 2013 • Rather than continue with negotiations with the Brazilian government to lower import duties on video game hardware like the PlayStation 3, Sony Computer Entertainment has followed the example of Microsoft Corp. and is now making PS3s in Brazil. Production of the 250GB model by Sony Brasil Ltda is now under way ...Continue Reading EA Locks In Star Wars IP May 7, 2013 • A month after LucasFilm, under new management at the Walt Disney Co., announced that LucasArts would no longer be in the business of internal game development, Electronic Arts secured the exclusive license rights to create and market core video games in the Star Wars franchise. Disney Interactive picks up the rights ...Continue Reading Facebook Sees Mobile Growth MAY 2, 2013 • Mirroring consumer entertainment trends seen elsewhere Facebook is seeing a rising tide of users accessing the social network via smartphones. As part of its most recent quarterly financial reporting for the period ending March 31, Facebook disclosed that the number of monthly active users accessing the platform via mobile has grown ...Continue Reading iOS Continues to Dominate APRIL 30, 2013 • A new report published by DFC Intelligence forecasts that games and applications developed for the Apple iOS will continue to dominate the mobile entertainment market over the next few years. The report, The Global Market for Games and Entertainment Applications on Smartphone and Tablets, was produced using historical tracking data from Priori Data. The most popular application ...Continue Reading Amazon Preps Set-Top Box APRIL 26, 2013 • Given that Amazon.com already streams a catalog of 150,000 movies and TV shows to its Prime service members owning a PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 or Roku device, it comes with little surprise that Bloomberg News is reporting that the online retailer is prepping its own Internet set-top box for ...Continue Reading Iwata of America APRIL 24, 2013 • In addition to his ongoing duties as global president of Nintendo Co, Ltd., Satoru Iwata is taking the chief executive reigns at Nintendo of America from Tatsumi Kimishima. The latter is being promoted to managing director at the home office in Kyoto where he will oversee the Corporate Analysis and Administration, ...Continue Reading |
