Fallen Earth

GamersFirst has announced that Fallen Earth's transition to a free-to-play revenue model will be completed this week and that players will be able to enter the new iteration beginning Wednesday, October 12th.

The Fallen Earth blog has been updated with information about upcoming events to be held in celebration of the game's second anniversary. In addition, the team details the Economy Patch that will be deployed soon.

Fallen Earth's Marie Croall has posted the latest State of the Game letter on the new FE blog. The letter discusses upcoming events surrounding Fallen Earth's second anniversary as well as gives a peek ahead to Economic changes coming.

The Fallen Earth blog has been updated with a new FAQ surrounding the game's conversion to free to play.

GamersFirst and the Fallen Earth development team have officially unveiled several key components of the free to play iteration of the game. First off the bat is the announcement that Fallen Earth's free to play version will launch on October 12th.

Fallen Earth's Marie Croall has released the August State of the Game letter on the game's new blog. In it, Croall talks about the upcoming "Fast Travel" patch, Fallen Earth's second anniversary, forthcoming economic changes and a teaser about a live event the team has planned for September.

A new Fallen Earth patch is scheduled to begin deployment on Wednesday, August 10th. Among the usual bug fixes and game enhancements, the patch will include a new fast travel system. Players will be able to travel between certain 'LifeNet Pods'.

Starting today you will be required to log into Fallen Earth with the use of your G1, GamersFirst account! If you haven't already transferred your account over, make sure you do it.

Current subscribers to Fallen Earth will be receiving some nifty rewards for their loyalty to the game in the form of Subscriber Appreciation gifts. The dev team has both text descriptions or, for the more visual among us, a great graphic to show off what players can expect to receive.

The team at Fallen Earth is making the full transition over to GamersFirst and it's all coming to a head on August 1st, as Fallen Earth becomes one with the GamersFirst publishing platform. Players will have to sign up for a GamersFirst Account and merge their new account with their Fallen Earth account, "Voltron Style"

Fallen Earth players will receive the new Alpha County expansion for free according to a press release from GamersFirst. Alpha County brings a new explorable zone in addition to improved skills, 'progress' towns and new end-game content into the game. Servers will be down to deploy the update beginning at 11:00 EST.

The Fallen Earth team has announced that the Alpha County update has been delayed and moved to Thursday, July 7th. Alpha County was originally planned to deploy today but some IT/technical issues, the update was moved to Thursday.

Massively has revealed that Fallen Earth will be going 'freemium' with the tenure of GamersFirst. This comes with little surprise as it was announced last month that GamersFirst was taking over the hardware side for Fallen Earth. According to the announcement, the core development team at Icarus will remain intact and development of the game should continue seamlessly.

The Fallen Earth team is teasing its player base with the revelation that there will be a major announcement coming during regular maintenance on Tuesday. In order to get the information "straight from the source", Senior Game Designer Marie "Aro Sei" Croall will be hosting a live dev chat via UStream on Tuesday, May 31st.

For their latest podcast, Massively.com sat down with Content Team Lead Marie Croall over at Fallen Earth to discuss the May State of the Game and, of course, Alpha County, Progress Towns and combat changes