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Turbine sues DDO publisher Atari for $30m Turbine states the basis of Atari’s failing to promote Stormreach was based on a desire to compete in the same genre, with its own internally-developed D&D MMO. Or as Turbine states in the complaint, Atari sought “to to free

The scam artists, gold farmers, and IP thieves behind Evony have gone to step 4 in The Path Of Internet Bastardy: sue people on the Internet and newspapers in Britain that you don’t like. Disgusting. If it DOES go to court I eagerly await how Evony explains that it’

Richard Bartle indulges in understatement on contextual advertising. When my book first came out, there were ads for gold farmers on its Amazon page and there were also ads for them that popped up for Google searches on my name. My name was being associated with a service of which

Kind of busy so no thumb-sucking analysis like I kind of have an urge to do, but a trend seems to be emerging I think is worth looking at: going back and fixing your old stuff instead of/in addition to adding new stuff. Cases in point: the big

CCP announces new first-person shooter console MMO that expands Eve Online The announcement, with the trailer tagline of “one universe, one war”, came at the end of a talk about the history of CCP. It left many GDC Europe keynote attendees — perhaps expecting an announcement for World Of Darkness,

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Apparently NCsoft, according to this well-written and fact checked piece in gamesindustry.biz, is blazing a trail in opening new markets to MMOs. Sales in North Korea accounted for the largest chunk of sales profit – 57 per cent in total. North Korea’s highly militaristic “army first” state ideology