CrimeCraft was a free-to-play online Persistent World Next-generation Shooter dubbed "PWNS" by Ukrainian developer Vogster Entertainment[1] and published at retail by THQ.

The game is set in the near future where the world lies in anarchy and gangs have replaced governments.

[2] CrimeCraft was released at retail through an exclusive deal with Best Buy and THQ in the United States and Canada and online worldwide on August 25, 2009.

[3] In late October 2009, CrimeCraft received their first major patch update, which included an unlimited free trial.

[5] CrimeCraft was periodically updated by the developers, adding new features, maps, gametypes, and community requests to the game.

Each episode will progress through a small part of the Bleedout storyline and will be free to subscribed players.

[7] Some new features include: a new questing campaign, Belly Street, reworked style, reputation system that will measure a player's activity and new items and clothing.

Vogster partnered with American comic book company Archaia to expand on the new Bleedout storyline.

[9] CrimeCraft revolves around gang warfare, combining role-playing elements as well as an MMO environment.

[10] A large, persistent city acts as the game's lobby where players can form gangs, accept missions and buy new weapons.

[14] Spread throughout all three lobbies, there are numerous Non-Player-Characters, where the players can either buy in-game items from them, or receive quests.

These battles are where the shooter aspect of crimecraft takes place, and there is a good amount of diversity in the gametypes.

[16] Players of CrimeCraft have the ability to customize their avatars in many different ways both cosmetically and statistically.

These pieces of clothing are broken up into 5 separate categories: Head, Face, Body, Legs, and Feet.

As a player levels up, he will be able to wear clothing that gives better resistances, thus decreasing the incoming damage even more so.

After every battle the player enters, one piece of ammunition is removed from the stack until it is depleted.

Boosts can be acquired by trading with other players, buying from the auction house or vender NPCs, and as reward drops from battle.

Players all share an emblem that appears on the back of their character, as well as have their gang name displayed with other information during battles.

These gang halls have the ability to have everything a player would need inside that they normally would have to travel throughout the lobbies to get to, such as vendors and a mail box.

[27] While players are participating in the different combat modes, there are different tasks that they can complete in order to acquire more rewards.

Missions can involve acquiring items, talking to other NPCs or meeting certain requirements in battle.

[28] Some players may not want to have to deal with all of the complexity and large amount of micro managing that CrimeCraft has to offer.

Quickplay mode completely removes the lobby, missions, and other features in CrimeCraft to allow the player to enjoy purely the shooting aspect of the game.

The main hub for all transactions and pricing of items is created by the players in the Auction house.

Sellers can set the starting bid and the amount of time the item is up for auction.

[33] Since launch the developer, Vogster Entertainment, has changed the business model from a box purchase with subscription fee and microtransactions to an “Unlimited Free Trial” and have now settled on a more traditional Free to Play model with upgrades via subscriptions and microtransactions.