Alright, it’s that time of year again.  The time when everyone makes their predictions about what’s going to happen in the hopes that by the time you realize it didn’t happen, you’ve forgotten who it was that said it would.  Like politicians on campaign stumps,...

Next week, as long predicted, Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) will go free to play (F2P). Gamers around the Web are split on this decision, though most welcome the idea of F2P in general, they are not happy with the way BioWare plans to implement it in SWTOR.  So is the introduction...

Subscription-based multiplayers are becoming a thing of the past.  A few holdouts still linger, but nearly every major MMO has gone free to play (F2P), marking a huge shift in the gaming market from premium play to freemium. Last month, one of the most venerable games in the MMO role...

Star Trek Online and Perfect World Entertainment have announced that the free to play (F2P) version of STO is now live.  Cryptic Studios, which develops the game for PWE, has updated the game to F2P and rolled the changes out to all servers. The game, suffering under its subscription...

Developers of DragonSoul, an MMO RPG, are planning for official release in early 2012.  The game has several standard-fare fantasy RPG classes and developers have just released promo shots for the Bard class, which will be included in the game. DragonSoul will have heavy focus on player...

Wargaming.net, which makes the popular MMO World of Tanks (WOT) and will soon release its sister game, World of Warplanes (WOWp), has showcased both the upcoming French line of tanks for WOT and the planned American planes for the launch of WOWp.  Both games are free to play (F2P). The...

NCSoft has announced that their flagship MMO, Aion, will be going free to play (F2P) in February, 2012.  The game is in North America through publishing rights partnered with NCWest (a subsidiary of NCSoft) while NCSoft is parntered with Gameforge in Europe for games there. The move to...

NewZoo, a gaming business analysis firm, has conducted and published a study showing that the overall free to play (F2P) market spending totals are up significantly over 2010 numbers.  American spending money on F2P titles, the study shows, is up 24% to a total of $1.2 billion...

EverQuest II has announced that it will go free to play (F2P) without segregated servers for subscribers vs. free players starting in early December.  Sony Online Entertainment says that subscription titles are a dying breed in the industry and as caretakers of one of its oldest and most...

The official launch date for Star Trek Online’s planned migration to free to play (F2P) has been announced.  Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios, makers of the game, have announced the F2P launch date to be January 17, 2012. Celebrating the announcement, the developers...

According to Sony Online Entertainment, the recent long outage of DC Universe Online is due to the game seeing over 120,000 new users in less than a week after going free to play (F2P).  The massive number of new users have put the U.s. game servers under heavy burden and lead to the...

Cliffhanger Productions has announced the new Shadowrun Online MMO RPG, confirming rumors of the game’s development.  Some details and assurances from the devs have also been forthcoming – namely that it will be “nothing like the Xbox game.” This will be the...