GamersGate Offering Free Ad-Based PC/Mac Games
GamersGate is launching a new service in the fall that allows PC gamers to play for free after watching advertisements.
Wednesday digital distribution service GamersGate announced the upcoming launch of FreeGames, a free-to-play ad-supported platform for PC and Mac titles. The new site will allow users to download, install and play up to five titles at once free of charge, but are required to watch a short advertisement at the launch of the game.
"The new service offers the best of both worlds for both gamers and publishers,"said Theodore Bergquist, CEO at GamersGate. "Gamers can play games for free, catch up on franchises or try a game out before they buy. Publishers will receive ad revenue while expanding their audience. We’ve always been at the forefront of the digital delivery business and I’m confident that our new service will help reshape the industry."
GamersGate currently offers over 3,000 titles including the upcoming Duke Nukem Forever and Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Darkspore, Dragon Age 2, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Bulletstorm, Dead Space 2 and loads more. GamersGate expects that a large portion of its current library will be available in the ad-supported model for the September launch.
As seen here, the FreeGames website features a countdown timer and a place to sign up for the beta. There's also indication that users will have an option to add additional games on top of the 5-title limit (a monthly all-you-can-eat subscription perhaps?), but specific details are not provided. GamersGate will either reveal more this week at E3 2011, or announce the available games list closer to the platform's launch.
Sounds promising, but there has to be a bigger catch.
Sounds promising, but there has to be a bigger catch.
dont matter. new win7 partition to take on the crap, new e-mail service to handle the spam, new identity to spend 23hrs a day of hardcore playing
and? it's still your decision on how much info you give them...or how much of it is actually true
Not to mention, we'd be far better at selecting products on their actual value.
So, NTY for me, too. And Gratz to whoever writes the 1st ad-block for this.
The way that this is written seems to suggest all those games have not been released yet that were mentioned by name which of course most of those are. Either this was a strange fluke or this was written before the release of some of those games and posted now. Which would suggest this article is more of a advertisement.
In this situation what I would aim for is dealing with all future releases that have multi-player is to have newly generated and expiring keys that expire every month. This way the service isn't simply used to harvest working keys to be given, used, or sold.
well waiting for this game i luv nuke 3d........