Also unveiled today at TennoCon was the next expansion, dubbed Fortuna which adds all-new types of environments (and the planet Venus!), creatures and gameplay – including hoverboarding! Oh, and you can fly a capital ship and battle other starships! Stay tuned for more on t

Alongside the announcement of DCUO for the PS4, SOE has announced that the popular online shooter PlanetSide 2 is headed to the PS4 as well. SOE’s Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing, Laura Naviaux, says that “players have been asking for PlanetSide 2 to be playable on consoles, and PS4 is the ideal platform to showcase the game’s beauty, depth, and frenetic open world comb

I thing the whole Warframe vs Mabinogi thing is really exciting! In the previous matchup, AirMech faced Warframe and we unfortunately lost. I noticed many of our players seemed torn between choosing AirMech or Warframe mods|https://warframebase.com/, plus as I know the devs at Digital Extremes (old friends and independent developers themselves) I felt like the most honorable thing to do would be to cheer them on in the next round. I’d never heard of the other game, and never saw it mentioned. I figure why not support some friends, as I heard the other game was offering rewards, and participation is great. I think that companies rewarding their players for voting is perfectly fine. Obviously you’re going to support the game you play, so no harm there. If anyone resorts to botting votes, now that is a serious violation and I hope it hasn’t happened. I didn’t see anything official from Nexon about AirMech and that being the reason they tried so hard (though in the end failed) to win the vote. I’m flattered the players think that our admittedly small community had such a massive influence on the vote in order to justify involving all their games. AirMech is a team of 9 indie developers just building a game we love, and supporting a community we love. We even provided links showing how many potential votes AirMech contributed, but that apparently was ignored. The real winner here is MMOBomb of course. Brilliant move on their part to have this contest, as they have even tricked Nexon into driving them a massive amount of traffic! You can’t buy that kind of interest, so really well done there. Warframe also wins, because now all those Nexon players know about Warframe. Even AirMech wins–we’ve had a ton of signups originating from Nexon forums over the past few days. That wasn’t intentional, but I’m happy they now know about AirMech and are playing our game. In fact all the games in this contest are winners, especially the smaller ones that could use some exposure. Large companies playing it smart like Riot were right to sit out, since any promotion of the event is just free advertising for other ga

Shortly after shifting to a free-to-play model , DCUO saw an uptick in its player base, once again proving that MMOs can still find success without a subscription fee. As far as we know, DCUO on the PS4 will also be free-to-play with support for in-game purcha

To be fair, Carbon Games, the developer behind free to play action strategy title Airmech, decided to support Warframe in a similar fashion after their game was defeated in the quarter finals by Warframe itself, but one could say that there’s a rather large difference between an independent developer deciding on its own to support another, and a large publisher bringing all its big guns to bear in order to win, involving multiple of its own communities that have nothing to do with the cont

It’s definitely not the first time that developers encourage their players to vote for them in this kind of popularity contest, but it’s fair to say that this time around things have gone quite a bit overboard, especially considering the nature of the cont

We cover a lot of games here on TheGamer , but one game that doesn’t get nearly as much coverage as it deserves is Warframe . For years now, Warframe has quietly been gaining momentum, gathering up players, and slowly but surely branching out into every console under the

Announced moments ago at TennoCon , the third annual Warframe convention hosted by Canadian developer and publisher Digital Extremes, Warframe is in development for the Switch thanks to a partnership between Digital Extremes and Panic Button. Panic Button helped work on DOOM, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus , and Rocket League , and are masters at porting triple-A games to Nintendo’s hybrid portable cons

Microtransactions have been an increasingly touchy subject for gamers in the last few years, especially since Star Wars Battlefront 2 found itself in the spotlight after DICE pushed consumers too far. Game developers have been hard-pressed to find innovative ways to increase revenue earned from titles, but today’s story is something else entirely: the developer of Warframe removed a microtransaction because it proved too successful. While some studios purposefully target high-spending gamers (who hold the industry nickname of “whales”), one man’s click-happy purchase binge changed the philosophy of the Warframe crew fore