Free to play games rule the entertainment world with $88 billion in revenue

They may be free, but they sure pay. Games with no upfront cost but a plethora of other ways to make money generated a mind-blowing $88 billion in 2018 according to SuperData’s year-end report — leaving traditional games (and indeed movies and TV) in the dust. While it may not come as a surprise that […]

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The ‘Fornite’ porn parody is here and honestly it’s a pretty sharp commentary on gaming culture

The Fortnite porn parody just dropped like the supply llama you desperately needed.
Giving a new meaning to “bush bros,” Fortnut features everything you expect from a porn version of a gaming phenomenon. There’s shitty CGI (are they dropping in on up…

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StarCraft II will be free to play starting November 14

 It was only in April that Blizzard made the original StarCraft free to play, and now the company has done the same for its sequel. StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty, which is certainly the most-played real-time strategy game ever made, will be free for anyone to play starting on November 14. Of course there’s a catch, but nothing nefarious. Read More

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‘StarCraft 2’ goes free-to-play after 7 years

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StarCraft 2 is going to be free to play starting this month, Blizzard revealed at BlizzCon today.

Specifically, StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty will be going free-to-play on Nov. 14 (Nov. 15 in some areas around the world), which includes the first campaign in StarCraft 2, the multiplayer, and portions of co-op campaigns. The two later expansions — Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void — and the Nova Covert Ops downloadable content will still come at a cost.

“We feel like we’ve got a great game that we want more people to play, so taking away some of the barriers — primarily cost — to get into the game, we’re hoping will really give a larger audience a chance to play StarCraft 2,” said game director Tim Morten. Read more…

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