Closed beta testing for Ghost Recon Online (PC) begins on March 5. Those looking to enlist in Tom Clancy’s near-future military warfare can sign up for the beta at the game’s official website.
Microsoft’s casual take on the PC flight simulator takes to the air on February 29, the free-to-play title supplemented with $US20 of downloadable content right out of the gate. why fly just one Hawaiian island when you can fly them all? More »
Have you ever wished you could play the first 20 levels of Trion World’s massively multiplayer online role-playing game Rift with no time limit at no cost to yourself whatsoever? Damn, that’s a very specific wish. Also, you’re in luck, as Trion launches Rift Lite, which is exactly what you wanted. More »
After more than a decade of dedicated fans paying a monthly fee to adventure in the lands of Norrath, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game that got the MMORPG ball rolling back in 1999 is going free-to-play come March. More »
The most disappointing aspect of Dungeons & Dragons Online was that the game was set in Stormreach instead of the much more popular Forgotten Realms campaign setting. Turbine rectifies that mistake with the first expansion pack for the six-year-old MMO, Menace of the Underdark. More »
Set your phasers on stupid Trek reference, as Cryptic’s Star Trek Online opens its free-to-play docking bay and invites the world inside following a brief subscriber-only period. To see what players get for free, hit up the official Star Trek Online web page. More »
In video game years, Everquest II‘s like the great grandpa to newer MMOs like The Old Republic or Rift. Launched in 2004, it’s got a faithful community that’s still questing around on its servers but the game’s days of accruing new players month after month seems to have ended a while back. More »
Maintaining balance in a free-to-play game is no easy task. The free-to-play sales pitch goes something like this: “You can play the entire game, see every map, and get every upgrade without paying a cent.” The truth of the matter is a bit more complicated: “You can see every map and get every upgrade sooner if you pay.” More »
Need for Speed World introduced its first “premium elite” car and, yeah, based on the sticker price, we’d say it qualifies. The Koenigsegg CCX Elite Edition is on sale in the in-game store for $US100. But wait! If you act now, you can get this car for only $US75! They’ll even throw in a passenger-side floormat (I think.) More »
