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09.09.11

LEGO Universe, the massively multiplayer online adventure game from Netdevil, is celebrating its first anniversary this October. With the new free-to-play gameplay option fully operational, the LEGO Group has seen hundreds of thousands of new fans enter the Free to Play Zone in less than a month. The game developer talks about the online game in this exclusive video interview.

06.29.11

Free-to-play gaming is growing exponentially. Valve, creators of bestselling game franchises like Half-Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead, and Counter-Strike and leading technologies like Steam and Source, is the latest company to jump into the free-to-play arena. After four years and over 200 updates, its popular and critically-acclaimed online action game Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is now free for anyone to play.  

06.13.10

Quick Hit, Inc., a leading developer and publisher of free social sports games, has signed an exclusive multi-year NFL license from the National Football League.  Under the terms of the agreement, QUICKHIT will have the right to use NFL trademarks in its successful free-to-play, browser-based game, QUICKHIT Football. Although the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, the license includes the 32 NFL team names, logos, colors, uniform and helmet designs, as well as the Super Bowl, NFC, AFC, and Pro Bowl logos. The game will be on display at E3 2010 in Los Angeles.

06.12.10

Just in time for E3 2010, German videogame publisher Gameforge has inked a worldwide licensing agreement with CBS Consumer Products to publish free-to-play (F2P) browser games based on the legendary science-fiction franchise Star Trek. Acquiring the Star Trek license marks the start of Gameforge’s global expansion, as the online game publisher begins development to bring the Star Trek universe to life in browser-based properties, beginning in 2011. The first games under the international licensing agreement will take players into the deep reaches of space in the Star Trek Classic timeline as well as the tumultuous and vibrant timeline of Star Trek Deep Space Nine.