Gaming Battlefield 6's Redsec free-to-play battle royale mode launches today Up to 100 players with duos and four-player squads rumored By Daniel Sims, October 28, 2025, 7:51 AM 9 comments
Gaming Microsoft Microsoft is testing free, ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming tier with time limits Possibly launching in the coming months By Daniel Sims, October 4, 2025, 10:28 AM
Gaming Tech Culture Russian authorities threaten World of Tanks developer for its alleged "extremist activities" Wargaming studio said there are no assets to seize By Alfonso Maruccia, April 29, 2025, 12:53 PM 15 comments
Gaming Microsoft Minecraft is receiving a significant visual overhaul with the Vibrant Visuals update Dynamic lighting and shadows fundamentally change Minecraft's look By Daniel Sims, March 24, 2025, 10:48 PM 15 comments
Gaming Rainbow Six Siege X brings major changes, new Dual Front mode, and a free tier A new 6v6 three-lane mode with infinite respawns By Daniel Sims, March 14, 2025, 2:46 PM
Gaming Tech Culture Someone just traded a hat in Team Fortress 2 for a record-breaking $40,000 More than doubling the prior record after just one year By Daniel Sims, January 11, 2025, 12:09 PM
Gaming Path of Exile 2 promises over 25 hours of content, early access starts December 6 System requirements have also been published By Daniel Sims, November 22, 2024, 10:41 PM 7 comments
Gaming The Sims 5 will be free-to-play according to a leaked job ad Job description suggests there will be a microtransaction store By Daniel Sims, June 30, 2023, 8:49 AM 10 comments
Gaming Steam gets its first timed-game trial with 90 minutes of Dead Space promotion One shot to beat the speed-running record of one hour and 44 minutes By Daniel Sims, May 15, 2023, 4:31 PM
Gaming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is free to play for the next seven days CoD: MW II's free multiplayer trial starts now By Shawn Knight, April 19, 2023, 11:01 AM
Gaming Apple Apple doesn't care about games, a former Apple Store editor said The App Store is a confusing mess, and Apple only cares about collecting money By Alfonso Maruccia, February 28, 2023, 2:49 PM 14 comments
Download of the Week Gaming Unciv is a free-to-play remake of Civilization V built by volunteers Available for Windows, Linux and Android, Unciv is a free and open-source remake of Sid Meier's Civilization V, all developed by volunteers who have been hard at work for the past three years – the project is now also becoming available on Steam. By Ivan Franco, December 13, 2022, 7:20 AM
Gaming The Sims 4 is going free to play in October EA's aging social simulator will soon be free to play By Shawn Knight, September 14, 2022, 1:51 PM
Gaming Discover over 1,000 open-source games that are free to play Clones and remakes that can run on a potato By Danie Bester, September 6, 2022, 9:48 AM
Gaming Mobile Torchlight: Infinite is a Diablo Immortal-style ARPG for PC and mobile with less monetization Torchlight's back! Sort of By Rob Thubron, September 6, 2022, 8:42 AM 9 comments
Gaming Fall Guys goes free-to-play with crossplay after Epic acquisition Delisted from Steam, but Steam owners will still receive updates By Daniel Sims, June 21, 2022, 3:25 PM 9 comments
Gaming Software PUBG's move to free-to-play is carrying it back to the top of Battle Royale charts The battle royale title follows the lead of its mobile version and other shooters into the F2P arena By Jimmy Pezzone, May 15, 2022, 11:44 AM
Gaming Genshin Impact is free to play, still projected to rake in $2 billion per year It saw 44% growth in Q1 2022 and more than half a billion in revenue By Cal Jeffrey, May 5, 2022, 7:04 PM 11 comments
Gaming You can play The Elder Scrolls Online for free until April 26 The MMO's DLC has also been discounted By Cohen Coberly, April 18, 2022, 4:43 PM 27 comments
Gaming Valve is launching a new game set in the Portal universe The game will soon be available to download from Steam for free By Joao Silva, March 1, 2022, 12:17 PM
Gaming Assassin's Creed Valhalla is free-to-play through Monday and over half off until Wednesday Plus Ghostrunner and Ghost of Tsushima: Legends are free for PS Plus members starting Tuesday By Cal Jeffrey, February 25, 2022, 3:03 PM
Gaming PUBG experiences massive player growth after switching to free-to-play model PUBG went free-to-play after selling 75 million copies By Shawn Knight, January 26, 2022, 2:31 PM 8 comments
Gaming EA is reportedly considering turning Battlefield 2042 into a free-to-play model Dice should prepare itself for the negative feedback from buyers if it decides to go in this direction By Joao Silva, January 21, 2022, 1:04 PM 33 comments
Gaming Remedy partners with Tencent to create a free-to-play co-op shooter The companies will co-finance the project By Cohen Coberly, December 28, 2021, 5:50 PM
Gaming Microsoft Halo Infinite's free-to-play multiplayer mode is available now The download comes in at about 26GB By Cohen Coberly, November 15, 2021, 7:11 PM 8 comments