Is The Future Of Hero Shooters Tied To The F2P Live-Service Model?
New games in the genre are having a tough time competing.
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New games in the genre are having a tough time competing.
Steam really does have a fest for everything.
Free-to-play games did not just lower the price of entry. They rewrote how players understand value, progress, and reward. What started as a distribution model became a design ph...
The free-to-play model has taught millions of players to begin first and decide later. A game opens, a reward appears, and the user learns the economy before they learn the legal...
MMORPG players might not remember this, but MMO sandbox Pax Dei is still a buy-to-play title: It’s still a $30 game on Steam, which is surely a barrier to entry that is keeping its...
The World of Tanks IP now has its own hero shooter.
Fantasy and anime fandoms understand imaginary economies almost instantly. A rare sword, a magic crystal, a limited banner character or a glowing upgrade material can feel valuable...
Experience the game’s latest League.
A Steam MMORPG that normally costs $40 on the digital Valve storefront is currently free to download and keep. This offer is available for roughly 72 hours, set to expire on June 1...
A 2025 PC game previously locked behind a purchase is now free for all Steam users, permanently. And there are no catches. The PC game isn’t going free-to-play, nor are there any m...
How do you mark the release of a major patch? If you’re Path of Exile 2, you do it by making your early access multiplayer ARPG free-to-play for the weekend. It’s not the most typi...
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Courtesy of Valve and lemorion_1224 The top few spots on Steam‘s list of best-sellers are typically reserved for free games. After all, it’s hard to beat free in this economy, eve...
Sea battles, ocean MOBAs, weird fishing, and more.
Restrictions on free-to-play characters aren’t exactly new to MMORPGs that also offer a subscription, which is the case for the classic Anarchy Online. However, an extremely dedica...
It’s a good time to try it out if you’ve been meaning to.
With a new season starting soon, Bungie is offering Marathon at its best price yet next week: free. For the low price of nothing, anyone interested in checking out the extraction s...
NCsoft has formally revealed its monetization plan for Aion 2 when its global edition arrives in the west this fall. “Our goal is to be transparent about the entire approach,” NCso...
Are these give games still worth your time in 2026?
It's all about managing expectations in this week's Ahead of the Game series, where we tell you about a new mobile endeavour that's playable in one form or another despite its unof...
Marathon will be open to everyone for one week, giving new players a chance to try out the extraction shooter's next major update.
A brand new PC game just released this week is free for all Steam users, with no strings attached. It is also available to Steam Deck users, but it is unclear how well the free PC...
Free-to-play social playground Jetpack Clankers hits Meta Quest in Early Access on June 16.
Bungie announced that Marathon will be free to play on all platforms with the start of Season 2, which also adds new updates and progression systems.
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