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JAN. 12, 2012 • More than 25 million people are actively playing titles from Electronic Arts’ Play4Free label. Battlefield Heroes and Need for Speed World account for 10 million active [...]

JAN. 11, 2012 • Since becoming an F2P game back in December, EverQuest II has seen the number of new players jump by 300%, a 40% increase in daily logins, and 200% growth of in-game virtual item [...]

JAN. 9, 2012 • New York City-based Insight Venture Partners raised its stake in publisher Jagex to 55% from the 35% acquired in 2005. Jagex is best known for the popular online MMO Runescape. [...]

JAN. 5, 2012 • The veteran Flight Simulator franchise has been on hiatus since Microsoft Corp. shut down its Aces Game Studio in 2009. The series is returning this spring, however, as a [...]

DEC. 14, 2011 • NCsoft’s Aion MMO will become a free-to-play service in Europe during the first quarter of 2012. GameForge partnered with the Korean-based publisher in overseeing the [...]