Free Realms Casually Breezes Past the 4M Subscriber Mark and News From Fan Faire in Vegas

Free Realms really is a fascinating experiment – so much like the world’s most popular/successful MMO – World of Warcraft, but so different in terms of its desired userbase. It may very well be that this Fisher Price ideology becomes its undoing when an eventual sea change in its population takes place. [...]

SOE’s Free Realms Off To A Rocky Start

A week after its public launch of the much ballyhooed Free Realms MMORPG, Sony seems to be having difficulty keeping its servers up and running. After five or six attempts, this writer has been bumped in mid-trading card game, reset to the beginning of the tutorial and generally tossed about in a server maelstrom that shows no signs of subsiding. SOE better get things in order if they want to cement new devotees. [...]