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The Finals Saw 7.5 Million Players During its Recent Open Beta
The Finals is a new free-to-play first-person shooter from Embark Studios which has recently hosted an open beta giving players some good insight into what to expect from the game and giving the developers some insight into how the game plays with large amounts of people before its official launch.…
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War Thunder Review Bombed Down to Mostly Negative on Steam
War Thunder, The free-to-play MMO military game featuring aviation, armoured vehicles and naval craft has recently been review bombed on Steam down to Mostly Negative scores. War Thunder Review Bombed I’ve played War Thunder a couple of times once to try it and then secondly to try it in VR,…
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Diablo Immortal Review Bombed on Metacritic – Blizzard’s Lowest Rating Ever!
Released last week on both PC and mobile devices, on the surface of things, Diablo Immortal is a surprisingly decent game. It looks good, plays well, and seems to represent itself as a surprisingly decent addition to the franchise. – Below the surface, however, things get significantly problematic. It’s no…
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Warzone Devs Basically Admit it May Be Broke Beyond Repair – Hence Warzone 2?
Call of Duty Warzone was probably my most played gaming title of 2021 with me logging (roughly speaking) around 800 hours into the title. While we’re admittedly not too far into 2022, however, I think I’ve so far only logged around 10 hours in the game. Put simply, I’ve gotten…
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EA Already Considering Making Battlefield 2042 a ‘Free to Play’ Title?
Despite only having been released a little over two months ago, it seems pretty clear that Battlefield 2042 wasn’t the shot in the arm the franchise so desperately deserved and/or needed. In a nutshell, the game’s a bit crap. And this isn’t just my opinion either! Based on its poor…
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Battlefield 6 May Opt for Some ‘Free to Play’ Modes
I was once a huge fan of the Battlefield franchise, but I have to admit that the more recent releases have not particularly impressed me that much. Admittedly though, when EA basically said ‘if you don’t like it, don’t buy it’, I was more than happy to oblige those sentiments…
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Amazon Cans Crucible After Less than 6 Months!
Back in May 2020, Amazon announced the release of one it’s first ‘home-brew’ developed games, and initially ‘Crucible’, was generally well-received by both gamers and critics. It seems though that any hopes of this becoming the next big thing died pretty quickly and, in fact, until I heard of this…
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Rocket League is Going Free-To-Play This Summer
Following the acquisition of Psyonix by Epic Games, it was only a matter of time before something rather significant happened to Rocket League. Specifically, a move that would likely see it fully-transition over to the Epic Games Store platform. Well, following a report via TechPowerUp, it has now been confirmed…
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Bungie Delays Destiny 2 DLC and ‘Free To Play’ Version
Destiny 2 has arguably always been something of a troubled game since its release a little under two years ago. While it was never outright bad, it did need a DLC release (Forsaken) to really help get things back on track. By that point, however, many would argue that the…
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 ‘Blackout’ Goes Free to Play in April
Enjoy a Month of Free CoD-style Battle Royale Activision is announcing that for the month of April, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4‘s ‘Blackout’ battle royale mode will be free to play. This is the longest free trial players have gotten so far, four times longer than the free event…
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Dead Or Alive 6 Releases ‘Free To Play’ Version
Dead Or Alive 6 – Core Fighters With the release of Dead or Alive 6, so far the fan and critical response for the game has been very good. Given that it has been such a long time since the last game came out in the franchise, it seems that…
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Apex Legends Player Spends £380 On Items – ‘It Wasn’t Worth It’
Apex Legends Launching earlier this month, Apex Legends is proving to be a huge success for EA as it forms the latest addition to what many would’ve considered an oversaturated ‘battle royale’ gaming market. With its free-to-play mechanics, however, it is already garnered a pretty significant number of players. As…
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Apex Legends Already Gains 10 Million Players
Apex Legends It’s been a little under a week since EA released Apex Legends. Being a free-to-play Battle Royale game I must admit that I initially dismissed it as being yet another clone of the (getting done to death) genre that would perhaps do ok, but eventually fizzle out over…
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Respawn Confirms That Titanfall 3 Is NOT Being Developed
Titanfall Within the last few weeks, EA has confirmed that a brand new game set in the Titanfall would be set for release in the near future. The game was specifically confirmed to be yet another entry in the (now somewhat tiring) battle royal genre. Titanfall developer Respawn has, however,…
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Bethesda Shuts Down Fallout 76 ‘Free-To-Play’ Rumours
Fallout 76 We’re a little over 2 months now since the release of Fallout 76 and if one thing is certain, it’s that the game has been a pretty huge flop for Bethesda. As I have noted on many occasions in the past, this is somewhat ironic as I actually…
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