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iPhone Game Sells Extra Lives Through In-App Store
10:00AM Brian Crecente | Popular touch title Parachute Panic recently updated their iPhone and iPod Touch game with an interesting in-store item. More »
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Fable III May Also Get In-Game Microtransaction Shops
1:00PM Michael McWhertor | In addition to confirming that Lionhead Studios’ Fable III will benefit from the frantic arm waving that Project Natal can offer, Peter Molyneux has also reportedly said that the third game in the series may have in-game microtransactions. More »
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Sleuths Dig Up Microtransaction Language In Old Republic TOS
12:20PM Owen Good | The terms of service agreement for Star Wars: The Old Republic, included in its recently announced Game Testing program, mention both “points” and a “game store,” possibly tipping off plans for microtransactions. More »
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Battlefield Heroes’ 1.5 Million Players Have Spent A LOT Of Money
4:00PM Luke Plunkett | Battlefield Heroes is a living, breathing experiment in online gaming for Electronic Arts. It’s also one that I’m particularly fond of. But just how successful has it been for the company? More »
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How Much Xbox 360 Avatar Clothes And Toys Cost
5:20AM Stephen Totilo | Earlier today we gave you a video tour of the new Xbox 360 dashboard update (aka the love-child of Home and Miis). Now have a look at the prices for all Avatar clothing and toys… More »
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Don’t Rule Out Microtransactions For World Of Warcraft
1:30PM Luke Plunkett | While “free to play, pay to upgrade” is a payment structure more and more online games are adopting, the continued success of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft shows there’s still life in the old-fashioned model of paying a flat monthly subscription fee. More »
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Dungeons & Dragons Online’s New Store
2:20AM Mike Fahey | Dungeons and Dragons Online is going free-to-play in North America this summer, and Turbine has released the first screens of the new DDO Store, where they hope to make up those subscritption fees. More »
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Incoming, Increasing Numbers Of Video Game Attorneys!
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Video games are changing. Developers are taking more initiative in getting their games out there, and publishers are increasingly using downloadable content as a business model. That means one thing: More lawyers. More »
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What Do Developers Think Will Have The Biggest Impact On The Future Of Gaming?
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | It’s a curly question. And an important one. And one that’s been asked, with VentureBeat polling the industry to find out just what it thinks will be kind of a big deal in the future. More »
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