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Playing free games via a web browser is certainly a growing trend for hardcore game titles such as Quake Live and the upcoming Battlefield Heroes. However, the downloadable casual game developer-publisher Flashbang Studios is trying to go in the opposite direction and will see if people will actually pay to play games they have normally played for free.

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal the company plans will launch a subscription service sometime in 2009 on their Blurst.com site that will ask people to pay $20 for a six-month period. People will be able to download the Flash-based games they make for that fee and the company will take requests for additional features. They are assuming that 5,000 people will have to sign up for the service in order for it to work. The company claims that 2.5 million people have played their free games so it will be interesting to see if a tiny fraction of those players would like to pay for the service. In the meantime Flashbang's newest game Paper Moon (seen above) is due for release on Friday.