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Free-to-Play Madden Alternative Inks Four More Celebs
1:40PM Owen Good | Quick Hit Football, the free-to-play online fantasy sports/RPG hybrid Kotaku profiled two months ago, has signed agreements with four more coaches to use their likenesses as opposing AIs within the game. More »
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Balloon Boy Game Announced For PC Worldwide
4:30PM Owen Good | Yesterday we explored the crossover between balloons in the news and video games. Today, certifying the saga of Balloon Boy as a true news event, someone made a flash game out of it – a flash-based side-scroller anyone can enjoy. More »
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Free Realms Holds Halloween Spooktacular
8:20AM Mike Fahey | Many MMO games host special Halloween events, but only Sony Online Entertainment’s Free Realms has the guts to use the words Super Spooktacular, which is at least 10 times as awesome as a normal Spooktacular. More »
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Turbine: Free Model Boosted D&D Online Subs 40 Percent
1:40PM Owen Good | Since moving to a free-to-play model, Dungeons & Dragons online has seen a 40 percent increase in subscribers, the developer Turbine said in an interview with Ars Technica More »
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THQ*ICE Opens Dragonica Online In Grand Fashion
4:40AM Mike Fahey | THQ*ICE’s first free-to-play MMO Dragonica Online is holding a grand opening celebration tomorrow, with special events and contests running all weekend long. More »
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Earth Eternal Finally Makes It To Open Beta
2:20AM Mike Fahey | Earth Eternal, the browser-based anthropomorphic animal MMO I’ve been following since early 2007 has finally reached the open beta stage, and the time of man has officially passed. More »
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It’s Goal Time In Free Realms
2:40AM Mike Fahey | Those soccer fields sprinkled about Sony Online Entertainment’s Free Realms now has a purpose, 3-on-3 footy matches and 20 levels worth of Soccer Stardom now available. More »
Regulars
Long Weekend Timewaster: GrowBox
10:00AM Owen Good | Been a while since we’ve done these. Here’s GrowBox, courtesy of King.com. The object is to pick up all of the gold orbs, but consuming them makes your box grow, so the board must be navigated in a specific order. More »
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CrimeCraft Going Free-to-Play By Month’s End
9:30AM Owen Good | The FPS-MMO-WTFBBQ CrimeCraft offers a “free unlimited trial” by the end of October, according to publisher Vogster Entertainment, which will effectively move the game into three tiers — free, $US5 and $US10 subscriptions. More »
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1:20AM Mike Fahey | CG movie Planet 51 isn’t just getting the obligatory console game tie-in when it hits theatres this November, as Zed Worldwide announces Planet 51 Online, a free-to-play MMO based on the film. More »
Explore Strange New Worlds In The Planet 51 MMO
1:20AM Mike Fahey | CG movie Planet 51 isn’t just getting the obligatory console game tie-in when it hits theatres this November, as Zed Worldwide announces Planet 51 Online, a free-to-play MMO based on the film. More » 
