From the review, "It appears that Electronic Arts is the first major Western gaming company to embrace the free to play concept. First released as a retail game with a free demo available, BattleForge is now a free to play game under EA's "Play 4 Free" label. This announcement was made back in May 2009 making BattleForge EA's first major f2p title, followed shortly by the official release of Battlefield Heroes a month later. BattleForge has a unique game concept that takes the tried and true RTS..."
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.