Free Realms

Free Realms Embraces Its Agrarian Side with New Farming Feature

Posted on Apr 12, 2011

This week, Sony Online Entertainment hands over the pitchfork with the implementation of farming activities in Free Realms. As a game that caters to an increasingly wide audience with varying age levels, Free Realms makes a genuine effort to combat the specter of tedium that hangs over every massive title. To that end, the game has been [...]

Free Realms Comes to the Playstation Network

Posted on Mar 29, 2011

This week, Sony Online Entertainment has ported their successful free-to-play title, Free Realms, to the Playstation Network. With this move, the console gets its very first F2P MMO, coming hot on the heels of SOE’s recently released superhero title, DC Universe: Online. With 17 million registered players, Free Realms is one of the most popular MMORPGs of [...]

Free Realms Becomes First MMORPG on PSN

Posted on Mar 14, 2011

Sony Online Entertainment today announced that the free to play MMORPG Free Realms will be the first MMORPG to become available on the Playstation Network (PSN).  Free Realms will become available on PSN in North America on March 29th. “Free Realms continues to break new ground in the gaming industry– it will be the first free-to-play MMO [...]

Free Realms Now Available for Mac

Posted on Nov 04, 2010

Sony Online Entertainment, in collaboration with TransGaming, Inc., has released yesterday a Free Realms version for Macintosh Platform. Now, all Mac users can enjoy this new version of the popular family-friendly MMO that has more than 14 million registered players. It’s good to see some companies care about the Mac gaming community, such an awesome [...]

Domo in Free Realms

Posted on Aug 15, 2010

If you are a fan of Domo, you’ll be happy to know you can have your very own Domo pet in SOEs free-to-play MMORPG, Free Realms.  In addition to the pet, there will be other Domo-centric merchandise available to buy, including backpacks and hats. SOE has also extended their Lifetime Membership promotion.  It expires tomorrow, but [...]

Minor Updates to Free Realms

Posted on Jul 25, 2010

What’s new over at Sony Online Entertainment’s Free Realms? Not too much, though new items and activities are always a welcome addition to any party. While Free Realms is an MMO geared towards a younger audience, any age level can enjoy what this game has to offer, given the initial interest. I mean, who doesn’t want a [...]

SOE Free Realms: For Life

Posted on Jul 16, 2010

Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) announced that their title Free Realms will have lifetime memberships available for purchase starting today, July 16th and ending on August 2nd. For this limited time only players can purchase the lifetime membership for $29.95, while existing players who want this deal will have it begin once their current subscription ends. [...]

SOE FanFaire Attendees

Posted on Jun 28, 2010

SOE recently published a list of the folks from SOE who will be attending SOE FanFaire from August 5th to the 8th in Las Vegas.  The lists includes what looks like almost all of the community managers across the various games, as well as developers on most of their existing titles, although it doesn’t appear [...]

Free-To-Play & Microtransaction Games Here To Stay

Posted on Jul 28, 2009

If you live in the Western Hemisphere then it is likely that you just recently heard the term free-to-play (F2P).  Sure, it’s been a part of the gamer lexicon for a years now, but F2P games have taken off recently, due in large part to one of the most successful publishers in the genre, Nexon.  [...]

Sony’s Free Realms Surpasses 2 Milllion Users

Posted on May 27, 2009

Today Sony announced that over 2 million unique users have registered to their new free2play MMORPG Free Realms. Of those users, 75% are under the age of 17, 46% under 13 and 1/3 are female gamers. To be honest I thought Free Realms was going to be a flop. I didn’t actually play it, but [...]