Is a single game so popular that it’s dominating its space like a 800lbs. Tauren? That was the premise of “World of Warcraft Crushing PC Game Industry?” a frenetic Slashdot discussion launched by a recent interview with Age of Empires co-creator Brian Sullivan. “For… Read More »
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So last week, an editor at a very popular videogame magazine came right out and said she intends to pass on getting a Playstation 3 when it debuts this November, and instead, opt for the year-old Xbox 360. This in itself is not so strange,… Read More »
Former Dreamcast executive Peter Moore gave a great talk at Ziff-Davis Electronic Gaming Summit, advising the game industry on what they must do to expand their audience. As documented by Gamerscore, Moore’s speech, “The Elite 8: Eight Ways to Confront Elitism and Open Doors for… Read More »
The eyeball-based business model has a new game – massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG.) Acclaim Games says that its new massively multiplayer game, 2Moons, is going to be totally free and will be purely ad supported. The M-rated role playing game with the tagline, “No mercy… Read More »
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, the simulation-infused game industry showcase that’s turned downtown Los Angeles into a digital supernova almost every May since 1995 is done. Following Friday rumblings about shows pending demise, E3 owner, the Entertainment Software Association, announced through spokesman Doug Lowenstein that the… Read More »
Former Second Life staffer Rueben Steiger crunches the numbers on Second Life’s growth, and figures that if the current rate of 22% monthly growth continues, there will be 3.6 million Second Lifers by July 2007. Slower growth, say 10% every month, will still bring the total… Read More »
To cash in on the country’s nascent but growing market for online games, Bharti Airtel Limited, India’s largest private broadband and telephone service provider, has partnered with Indiagames Limited to launch a games-on-demand service on its broadband network. (Indiagames is backed by Cisco Systems and Adobe… Read More »
