After nearly 11 years of humanoid player characters, Turbine updates ancient MMO Asheron’s Call with a new playable race, with three more on the way this year.
Proving once again that people really enjoy free games, Turbine announces that more than a million new players have joined Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited since its re-launch as a free-to-play game last September.
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
At GDC Austin, the vice president for product development at Turbine said the next generation of MMORPGs will be on consoles, and if that wasn’t concession enough, he went so far as to say consoles are a “superior” mode.