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Molyneux: 'I Have Been Looking At MMOs'

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:46:11 EDT

Lionhead Studios creative director Peter Molyneux has all the reasons in the world to consider creating a MMORPG.

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Release and Beta Schedule for Frogsters' MMORPG

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:22:43 EDT

Frogster starts into the second half of the year with a wide-ranging MMOG portfolio.

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Teens Earn Money With Virtual Jobs

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:04:34 EDT

For most teens, a typical part-tie job involves flipping burgers or scooping ice cream. But with teen employment down 60 percent across the country e

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Electric Sheep Announce WebFlock, Solution for Flash-Based Environments

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:58:59 EDT

Today the Electric Sheep Company announced WebFlock, an in-house developed tool for producing download-free, browser-based

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DC Universe Online Preview

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:55:11 EDT

The massively multiplayer superhero genre has certainly received its share of attention. Cryptic and NCsoft started the trend with the City of Heroes

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BigWorld Expands South Korea, Japan Presence, Appoints Business Dev Director

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:49:36 EDT

Australian-based MMO distributor and middleware developer BigWorld has announced that in addition to expanding its presence in both the Japanese

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EA to Play in Knights of the Old Republic

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:29:02 EDT

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Avatars as communicators of emotions

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:21:12 EDT

Current interactive systems enable users to communicate with computers in many ways, but not taking into account emotional communication.

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Twinity Heads Outdoors with Berlin

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:13:28 EDT

Metaversum announced last week that its upcoming mirror world, Twinity, had begun opening outdoor areas in its private beta.

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Government Spying on MMOG's?

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:01:08 EDT

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Hello Kitty Online Reaches Closed Beta

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:43:22 EDT

Sanrio Digital today announced the closed beta launch of "Hello Kitty Online", a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG

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PlaySpan Acquires PayByCash

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:12:53 EDT

Silicon Valley based PlaySpan Inc. has acquired PayByCash the leading alternative payment system for online games

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Splitscreen Studios Announce Pirate Galaxy

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:07:02 EDT

Independent game developer Splitscreen Studios™ today revealed their upcoming massively multiplayer game, PIRATE GALAXY

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Jagex Announces Launch of RuneScape High Detail

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:00:16 EDT

Jagex, Ltd., the largest independent game developer in United Kingdom, today announced the release of RuneScape High Detail (HD)

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The Lore of Spellborn revealed

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:56:19 EDT

The fragmented gameworld of The Chronicles of Spellborn, split up in plenty of rocks and shards floating through the Deadspell Storm

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Gaia Online Gets $11 Million Third Round For Teen-Oriented Virtual World

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:51:32 EDT

Gaia Online, the teen-oriented virtual world and community site, has raised an $11 million third round led by Institutional Venture Partners.

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Meteor Games Licenses BigWorld Technology Suite For MMOG

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:30:26 EDT

Meteor Games, an independent studio recently founded by Neopets founders Adam Powell and Donna Williams, has licensed the BigWorld Technology Suite

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Evaluating virtual world business models. Part One

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:02:35 EDT

In terms of growth, the virtual worlds sector is exploding with dozens of new worlds across many different fields appearing on a regular basis.

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Google Launches Virtual World Called Lively

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:42:28 EDT

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Cartoon Network Partners with Crisp Thinking to Provide Global Online Child Protection in New MMOG

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:24:38 EDT

Cartoon Network New Media has partnered with the online child protection specialist, Crisp Thinking to integrate its NetModerator system into

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MMORTS Developer Majorem To Shut Ballerium Servers Down For Good

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:24:28 EDT

Disappointing news for fans of this long term fantasy MMORTS title

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Myst Online to Make a Comeback?

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:27:59 EDT

After having its servers shut off on April 10 by

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Get in the Closed Beta for Square's Next MMORPG

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:27:47 EDT

When most gamers think of Square Enix and MMO's, they think of

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ZzangOnline

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:27:38 EDT

MuhanGame announced that they will start an OBT of a casual MMORPG ZzangOnline (

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BigWorld Releases BigWorld Technology 1.9

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:27:27 EDT

This new release contains an advanced terrain engine that enables support for unlimited texture layers, higher level

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Twinity – what is it good for?

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:19:30 EDT

"Twinity - the virtual world that mashes up the real with the virtual world", proclaims their website.

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Virtual world total registered accounts

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:12:19 EDT

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Journal examines ‘Real-time and event-based systems’

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:04:01 EDT

More and more, IT systems have to respond almost instantaneously to an event or a collection of events. Military command-and-control systems

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GameTribe Teams Up With Alchemic Dream

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:52:04 EDT

Online Games specialist Alchemic Dream, Inc is proud to announce its partnership with Game Media Networks, the company behind the leading European

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Crisp Thinking(R) Protects Xivio Users During Record Growth in Virtual World and Social Networking Environments

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:46:43 EDT

Crisp Thinking, the online child protection specialist, has signed up a new client, Xivio, a virtual world and social networking website for

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THQ, EA Vet Joins 38 Studios At Art Director

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:41:28 EDT

Developer and publisher 38 Studios, formerly Green Monster Games, has appointed Thom Ang as its new director of art, where he will oversee the manage

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RocketON: A Virtual World That Travels With You on the Web

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:41:19 EDT

Instead of going to a site to play a massively multi-player game, San Francisco-based, venture-backed startup RocketON has actually placed a virtu

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The Griefer Future

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:41:09 EDT

The blending of the physical and immersive digital worlds-the metaverse

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'Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning' - 14 New Screens

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:41:01 EDT

With two crafting abilities (Apothecary and Talisman Making) and four supporting gathering skills (Cultiv

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Blizzard Provides Security Hardware for WoW

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:40:45 EDT

Reaching endgame content in any massively multiplayer game is not accomplished overnight. Unfortunately, after dumping all that time into the game, e

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Swedish developer Stillfront AB produces web game based on the explosive Universal Pictures theatrical release, WANTED

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:32:35 EDT

The Sweden-based developer/publisher, Stillfront AB, today announced a licensing agreement with the Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group

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Bartle Is Right

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:58:11 EDT

The Internet at large is going blah, blah, blah as of late due to a wonderful quote from a man that a lot of MMO veterans have long argued is our &qu

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Why rob a bank when e-crime’s less risky?

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:58:01 EDT

The Informa

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There.com Announces Virtual Goods Partnership with NaCo, Lation Focused Fashion Line

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:57:51 EDT

There.com announced today a deal with NaCo USA, a Lation-focused c

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Habbos Create 100 Millionth Avatar

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:57:39 EDT

Sulake announced today that users have created the 100 millionth avatar in its virtual world,

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