New MMO

Source: www.moreover.com --- 21 days ago
Chinese developer using French procedural texturing tool in Free2Play online title Texturing tool firm Allegorithmic has expanded its customer base into Asia: Chinese game company The9 has added ProFX to its game development pipeline. ...

Source: www.gamespy.com --- 20 days ago
The upcoming, unnamed MMO will use the HeroEngine. ...

Source: www.eurogamer.net --- 17 days ago
You'll be able to customise loads of stuff. ...

Source: www.shacknews.com --- 12 days ago
Interplay has relaunched its company website which notes, among other things, that the company's Fallout MMO is still in development. Codenamed "Project V13", Interplay has opened an Orange County, CA office for development of the game. It has also hired Chris Taylor, who was part of the original Fallout team, to be the lead system designer for the New game. Taylor joins several other former Fallout development team members who had been hired by Interplay previously. Though Interplay sold the rights to Fallout to Bethesda last year, it retained the possibility to develop an online Fallout game. Interplay does need to raise at least $30 million in funding for the project before April of 2009, and Bethesda is allowed to keep close tabs on development -- or the company loses the MMO license. ...

Source: www.computerandvideogames.com --- 9 days ago
500k register for MMO in one week. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has become "the fastest-selling New MMO of all time", according to publisher EA and developer Mythic Entertainment. Click here to read the full article ...

Source: www.gamepro.com --- 12 days ago
Bungie was teasing a New game announcement today, even as the world learned of a doomed Halo MMO that will never see the light of day due to the demise of Ensemble Studio. ...

Source: www.videogamer.com --- 10 days ago
Half a million people are playing WAR. ...

Source: www.gamerfeed.com --- 19 days ago
Filed under: Biz , Casual , MMO Earlier this month, THQ announced the opening of a New office in Shanghai and today the company announced the first major project that will come out of that location. Working with local publisher ICE Entertainment, THQ will launch Dragonica, a free-to-play casual MMO that will launch in the US in 2009.The game itself is being developed by Korea based Barunson Interactive and is described as a cartoon-like 3D side scroller title. Testing will being in China late this year befoe the game is brought over to the US. Dragonica will gain revenue through micro-transactions for additional content and features. This represents the latest attempt by a big Western publisher to enter the online micro-transaction game genre. Electronic Arts plans to officially launch Battlefield Heroes, a multiplayer shooter with plans for micro-transactions, later this year.   Read  |  Permalink  |  Email this  |  Linking Blogs  |  Comments ...

Source: play.tm --- 14 hours ago
All future releases on PS3? ...

Source: www.raphkoster.com --- 29 days ago
Dmitri Williams has released the first paper from an initiative that I helped get off the ground years ago, before leaving SOE. Basically, SOE gave him full (anonymized) logs of activity for EQ2. Some key findings: the largest concentration of players are in their 30s There are more players in their 30s than in their 20s Older players also [...] ...

Source: www.pacificepoch.com --- 17 days ago
Perfect World (Nasdaq: PWRD) announced on its official website on Friday that Beijing-based cartoon company Its Cartoon is producing a 2D cartoon based on the optimized version, "Lan Long," of Perfect World's 3D Q-style MMORPG "Pocketpet Journey West." Lan Long is scheduled to be released in October... ...

Source: blog.futurelab.net --- 26 days ago
by: Alex Eperjessy Now this is more like it. For the past two years, Dmitri Williams, Nick Yee and a whole lot of other people, mined Everquest II for all the data it could give, with Sony Online Entertainment's complicity. The results are here and they'll tell you who plays (age, gender, race, income, education, religion, media use, health), how much they play and why. It could've become a sterile academic exercise but instead, it turns out to be a very useful resource. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 23 days ago
Team name: Brave Entity Studios Project name: The Legends of Vertaih Brief description: Setting: The Legends of Vertaih is a medieval fantasy mmorpg that has been in slow and steady development for over a year. ...

Source: forum.neocron.com --- 4 days ago
Goes by the name "Otherland". Sounds like it will be low on the PvP - preview describes as "largley cooperative". Still, they're playing about with some of the typical notions of MMOs apparently - we'll see just how far they deviate from the mainstream. Also, while the descriptions are quite hacker/cyberspace esque, I don't see the "punk" aspect that properly charaterises cyberpunk at all. Anyone read the novels can confirm/deny that? ...

Source: www.gamepolitics.com --- 3 days ago
While pulling together this morning's stories, GP stumbled across ExGamer.net . The site chronicles the unnamed blogger's struggles with compulsive MMO play. ExGamer describes himself as " a 40 year old Canadian in recovery from a nine year compulsive online gaming habit ." From the site's FAQ: My life as a gamer was out of control. I couldn’t hold down a job or function as a brother, son or husband... This blog is about my ongoing healing process, and that of some New friends I’ve met along the way...   This is not an abstract illness; it involves the use and abuse of specific products that proved very problematic for me... I could not stop playing online role playing games for years, no matter how bad things got. I would spend hundreds, even thousands of dollars and untold hours in one game, only to bore of it and seek another “high” elsewhere. It also appears that ExGamer will be appearing on the upcoming Dr. Phil segment on game addiction that GP mentioned recently in regard to Wendy Kays, wife of SOCOM lead designer Graham Kays. GP:  Good luck to ExGamer with the site - and especially with his recovery. ...

Source: www.igarchive.com --- 9 days ago
500k register for MMO in one week.<br /> <br /> <br /> Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has become the fastest-selling New MMO of all time, according to publisher EA and developer Mythic Entertainment.<br /> <br /> Click above to read the full article> ...

Source: www.dslreports.com --- 8 days ago
I think this game will Rock :D. ...

Source: games.slashdot.org --- 2 days ago
Kotaku reports that the closed beta for Stargate Worlds, an MMO based on the popular Stargate television shows, will begin on October 15th. Registration is open at the game's website. Gamespy has some New screenshots available, and a Youtube channel has been opened for videos about the game. We discussed the early plans for Stargate Worlds a couple years ago. Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

Source: slashdot.org --- 5 days ago
Eurogamer breaks news that German games publisher DPT Entertainment will be making an MMORPG based on Tad Williams' Otherland series of books . As anyone who has read the books will know, this could be an interesting New spin on virtual worlds. Quoting: "For want of a better soundbite, let's call it the first cyberpunk MMO: a virtual world about virtual worlds, in which your avatar is an avatar, the NPCs play NPCs, and you explore a multiverse in which you might be in realistic historical surroundings one minute, and cartoon fantasy ones the next. Everything changes, even your own appearance, and nothing is even pretending to be real. ... You start the game as one of those consciousnesses in a place called the Land of the Lost, a nightmare scenario which you're trying to escape. You'll run, be killed, and reborn in a 'baby' state as a simple, low-rent sim (though we suspect the game won't be using that term, for obvious reasons) - a blank, featureless avatar that can be male, female or even neither." ...