As many readers here know, in addition to owning and running a gaming company, I am the Managing Editor of the MMO and Nintendo Wii channels at the technology web site Bright Hub. Bright Hub recently broke the top 1,000 barrier for busiest web sites...
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Muckbeast: Online Gaming and Virtual Worlds
Roll up your sleeves and dig through the muck. Making games is serious business!
A blog about online games, MMOs, MUDs, RPGs, virtual worlds, and the industry that makes them.
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This is obviously not a healthy sign for Warhammer: Report: Layoffs Hit EA Studios Including Tiburon, Black Box, Redwood Shores, Mythic.
According to the report, Mythic lost 80 people or 40% of their staff.
EA had a recent investor conference call,...
10/30 5:28
Defining Success for an MMO
I am going to try not to get too esoteric or philosophical. Lets eschew things like success as defined by making people happy, bettering the world, adding good ideas/concepts to the game design space, or all sorts of totally unmeasurable things like...
10/28 6:48
Law of MMOs: Losers vs. Noobs
I read this signature file on an MMO forum today: "Remember, in MMO's whoever achieved more than you is a nolifer, whoever achieved less than you is a noob."
I chuckled at first, but it is sad how true that mentality is.
What do you think causes...
... while counting their money?
I don't expect every, or any, MMO to be a WoW killer. But it strikes me as a pretty dang sad indictment of the genre that time after time, big budget, major publisher MMOs come out and fail miserably.
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