Whether it is to boost sales or just because the model of upselling players on virtual in-game items, Sony Online Entertainment has made a pretty extraordinary offer. Rather than pay $5 per month for a premium membership to their otherwise free online MMORPG Free Realms, players can now purchase a lifetime membership for only $29.95. Find out more. [...]
For all of its lack of depth, Free Realms really does make up for it in plain old fun. It’s like walking through a giant candy store while your parents are locked in a car outside; the Free Realms team just love to throw everything gooey and delicious at its players and Pirate’s Plunder, the new mini game expansion going live today March 19th 2010 – is no exception. I mean – everyone love’s to play a pirate right? Well, maybe with the exception of ninjas. [...]
Free Realms has stepped the paid members experience substantially by adding mounts allowing players to bomb around the fantastical landscape at speeds up to a hundred and fifty times faster than when traveling on foot. [...]
In addition to being nominated for the 2010 Best New Social/Online Game award at the Game Developers Choice Awards in San Francisco March 11th, Free Realms, the massively multi-player online game from Sony Online Entertainment announced that it has reached 8 million registered users. Although it is difficult to say how many of these registrations equal active or paying users on the game, it does indicate a slight decline in the monthly average, down to 500,000 per month from 900,000 after its initial launch period. [...]
To get an idea of what the controls are like for playing soccer in the MMORPG Free Realms, we created this gameplay video for you to preview. [...]
Arachnia’s Lair is a spider-web strewn danger zone in Free Realms beyond the dark and creepy Briarwood Maze – an area that has always reminded us of the hedge maze from the movie The Shining. [...]
Sony Online Entertainment Announced today the Card Duelist feature, allowing you to select your character, job and background and for a mere US$12.00 transform it into a Duelist play deck from Topps!
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The reason we are paying close attention to Free Realms new game expansion – Speedway Thunder – is that it means that one day it might be feasible to actually enter buildings in the game, or create guild houses or even personal living quarters. Perhaps even customizable living quarters like they did in Everquest 2. [...]