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From February 5th onwards, TERA will adopt a free-to-play model. According to En Masse Entertainment, publisher of TERA, the MMORPG will walk the “freemium” route. That is, you can still pay for in-game items, but that is completely optional. Just in case you’re a TERA player, let us see what is in store.

SuperBot Entertainment, the studio behind PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, and Sony have officially separated, ending what could have been a nice marriage. A Sony rep confirmed that “the working agreement with developer SuperBot Entertainment has amicably ended.”

Thanks to some revealing on the part of Game Informer, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has officially been announced to the world. As such, studio head Adam Badowski took to the blog for The Witcher 2 to reveal more information about The Witcher 3. The first thing of note is that this will be the last chapter in Geralt of Rivia’s story.

Minecraft? Was it really that surprising? Partially (or mostly) thanks to Minecraft, revenues for Xbox Live Arcade for 2012, at $290 million, have doubled from 2011’s. I’m going to go ahead and predict that it will be the best-selling XBLA game of 2013 as well.

The list of games with “craft” at the end of their title has just grown a little longer thanks to the release of Firebase Industries’ Arcadecraft in the Indie Games section of Xbox Live Arcade. In Arcadecraft, players assume the role of a struggling entrepreneur who must dig their way out of debt by starting and managing their own arcade. In addition to getting to name the arcade and customize its floor pattern, wall color, and decorations, players will also be able to purchase various arcade games from a total list of roughly 80 different machines.

Changes were announced for ArenaNet’s popular Buy-to-Play MMO Guild Wars 2. A new dev blog posted by the game’s lead designer Isaiah Cartwright outlines some of the new changes coming to the game’s dynamic leveling system. For those who may not be familiar with Guild Wars 2’s nuances, the dynamic leveling system basically allows higher-level players to advance their characters by playing through lower-level content by “scaling down” their stats and attributes.

NetherRealm Studios’ new DC-based brawler Injustice: Gods Among Us will be available on April 19th no matter where in the world you live. But fans living “across the pond” as it were will be able to get their hands on an exclusive ‘Red Son Special Edition’ of the game that includes a few extra goodies. Along with a copy of the game, the ‘Red Son’ Special Edition also comes with an exclusive “Steelbook” (which I assume contains concept art and…

MOBA games have grown into real power in recent years and more and more developers try their hand at this genre. Among them there are also people from Hi-Rez Studios with Smite. Work on this title is nearly finished, allowing authors to open beta launch. Good news is that everything from this point including the development of the characters will then be transferred to the full version. There will be no resets on characters. In addition, people which gain the…

The auction is finished and THQ have been sold! Majority of owned publisher development teams and brands were sold for a total amount of 100 million dollars. Auction is not approved by the court yet, but this is just a formality. The most valuable piece of the pie turned out to be Relic Entertainment studio, together with all rights to the Company of Heroes 2. This kit was acquired by Sega for 26.6 million dollars, which overbid competitive offer from ZeniMax Media company.

Electronic Arts just revealed that the lates production of Crytek Studio - Crysis 3 will have open beta tests. The open beta will go live on January 29th on the Xbox 360, PS3, PC and will finish on 12 of February. Players will be able to test two from eight available game modes - Crash Site and Hunter. Special bonus was also added for all player which will buy game before end of beta tests.