EA has often been maligned as a company averse to experimentation, but if its recent press day for the new EA Games brand was anything to go by then this is becoming an increasingly unfair criticism, if only in respect of the way it handles its customers' money. While Battlefield Heroes champions a free-to-play scheme for the team shooter genre, sustaining itself through a mixture of ad support and purchasable items, Battleforge attempts a similar thing for the RTS, blending in elements of trading-card pursuits.
Theshigen writes "Battleforge was a rather novel idea. It combined collectable card game mechanics with real-time strategy, something new and fresh back in 2009. It's been re-released today as Skylords Reborn. A fan-made project that's made the gamer, completely free."
1RBC: This has been a pretty exciting week for game news- this week, Sony announced that they'd be cutting off Playstation Now support for the Vita, PS3 and every other device that's not a PS4 or PC, some big announcements came out of Nintendo regarding DLC for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as well as more details about Splatoon 2, and EA has handed over (partial) control of the card/strategy game BattleForge to their fans- all this and more on this week's episode of 1RBC Gaming Weekly.
iLLGaming.in's weekly roundup of Free-2-Play games, by F2P writer Ajay Verma.
