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Nothing Is Real, Strawberry Fields

Paul Barnett, Mythic EA Mythic BIOWARE Mythic creative director, on the state of the industry he is creatively directing: The concept of there being MMOs is probably dead. Well, then. Everyone go home, we’re done! Oh… wait. The concept of there being MMOs is probably dead. There are just

This Just In: We Can't Trust Any Of You With Those Body Parts You Think About, Like, All The Time

GLAAD announces they are going to combat homophobia in game communities. Joshua Meadows (sometime commenter here, frequent commenter on Second Life issues, and I suspect, you know, may be that way) has a few things to say about it. I believe, after years of experience inside these environments, any plan

Asia Makes UO2, You Can't Have It, But They Can Have WoW Again

Apparently, EA isn’t just bringing a simple localized version of UO to the Chinese market, but making a new MMO using the UO “license”. Hong Kong-based NetDragon Websoft will develop the massively multiplayer online game — where thousands or millions of players play simultaneously in a virtual world — in conjunction

Good, Bad, I'm The Orc With The Axe

Sam Raimi to direct World of Warcraft movie, thus ensuring that World of Warcraft will maintain a lead over Duke Nukem for pop reference non-sequitors in the near future. Edit: Variety’s posted a story with (very slightly more) details. The plan is for Raimi to supervise development of “Warcraft”

Finally, Equal Time For The Chosen People

I bet you’d go to synagogue more if your rabbi was shadow spec. Taken from new Evony clone HI THERE!, where you can fight with “Holly light” and, apparently judging by the counter at the top of the page, the developers assume that only real females would pick the

Gahhh

SOE lays off 41 No word on where or what project (or if it was a corporate-wide downsizing).

Welcome To Friday

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