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LEGO Universe Developer: I Will Never Make an MMO Again

Ryan Seabury — Tue, 24 May 2011 10:00:00 EDT

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An open letter to my fellow developers and gamers who follow the industry. More »

The End Is the Beginning For FormerLEGO Universe Devs

Brian Crecente — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:06:58 EDT

The founders of NetDevil left their Colorado-based studio recently to kick off another game developer start-up. END Games Entertainment has been mostly quiet until today when a blogpost went live hinting at what the foundling studio plans to work on next. Hint: Think casual. [End Stand For...] More »

The Lego Universe Is Overrun By Spinning Ninjas

Mike Fahey — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:30:00 EST

NetDevil's toy-based massively-multiplayer LEGO Universe gets its largest dose of product placement-littered new content yet as the portal opens to Crux Prime, where players can learn the ancient art of Spinjitsu and, for the first time ever, form groups. More »

LEGO Universe MMO Log Four: Picking Up The Pieces

Mike Fahey — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:20:00 EST

After a brief vacation delay, we're back with the final entry in our four-part LEGO Universe MMO log. We'll keep this one short and sweet, with a real world twist. More »

LEGO Universe MMO Log Three: A Dark Hero Rises

Mike Fahey — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:20:00 EST

This week's installment of our four-part LEGO Universe MMO Log begins with the death of RumbleWarpWhistle and the birth of Fahey, Agent of Paradox. More »

Fans Add New Content To LEGO Universe

Mike Fahey — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:20:00 EST

Starbase 3001 is open for business in the LEGO Universe, giving players access to three new mini-worlds created by some of the most talented LEGO fans in the world. More »

LEGO Universe MMO Log Two: Excitement Builds?

Mike Fahey — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:00:00 EST

Having exhausted a majority of the questing content during my first week playing LEGO Universe, I dedicated my second week to that most basic of LEGO activities: Building. More »

LEGO Universe MMO Log One: Some Assembly Required

Mike Fahey — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:00:00 EDT

Join me as I take the first steps in a four-week journey into the colorful candy world of NetDevil's LEGO Universe. More »

A Computer Mind To Finger The Real Bullies, Pedophiles and Killers of Virtual Worlds

Brian Crecente — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:30:00 EDT

When the text-heavy fantasy worlds of multi-user dungeons first invaded the mainframes of Essex University and the dial-ups of Compuserve, there were few rules in place and even fewer ways to enforce them. More »

LEGO Universe' Minifig Madness

Brian Crecente — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:00:00 EDT

There's a lot I like about LEGO Universe including the ability to make your own mini-figs to use as avatars. More »

LEGO Universe Delivers a Compelling Online Experience

Brian Crecente — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 EDT

Working on a massively multiplayer online computer game seems akin to mining for gold. More »

Lego Universe Is Open For Early Business

Mike Fahey — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:40:00 EDT

The building blocks of the LEGO Universe community fall into place as NetDevil's toy-based MMO opens two weeks early for its Founders. More »

Linux Could Be A Problem For MMO Handheld The Jungle

Brian Crecente — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:00:00 EDT

Panasonic's recently unveiled portable massively multiplayer online gaming platform won't be a success, can't be a success if there are no games to play on it. More »

A Look At One of the Largest LEGO Libraries in the World

Brian Crecente — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:00:00 EDT

I spent yesterday hanging out at NetDevil with Tristan checking out their soon-to-be-released massively multiplayer online game LEGO Universe. More »

LEGO Universe Spawns Collectible Card Game

Mike Fahey — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:00:00 EDT

Collectible bricks become collectible cards next year, when NetDevil's LEGO Universe expands with a virtual and physical trading card game, courtesy of the experts at Dire Wolf Digital. Who is Dire Wolf Digital? More »

LEGO Universe Beta Ready To Brick Your Computer

Mike Fahey — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:40:00 EST

NetDevil's massively-multiplayer LEGO Universe has reached the closed beta testing stage, with invites flooding the inboxes of beta test hopefuls across the country. More »

Sign-Up For The LEGO Universe Beta

Mike Fahey — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:40:00 EST

Beta sign-ups are now underway for NetDevil's LEGO Universe, potentially the largest mass computer bricking of all time. More »

LEGO Universe Screenshots: It's In The Game

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:40:00 EST

While amazing, the LEGO Universe trailer was short on in-game action. These screenshots are comprised of nothing but. More »

LEGO Universe Trailer Is All Good Bricks vs Bad Bricks

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:30:00 EST

Here's a new trailer for Netdevil's upcoming massively multiplayer online game, LEGO Universe. No gameplay to be seen, sadly, but damned if it's not getting me excited regardless. More »

A Look Inside the LEGO Universe

Owen Good — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:30:00 EST

A massive profile of NetDevil by the Denver alternative weekly WestWord turns up some interesting tidbits about the LEGO MMO the studio is building. More »

Sign Up For The LEGO Universe Beta At CES

Mike Fahey — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:00:00 EST

The LEGO Universe expands at CES 2010 this week, with hands-on demos, the first official gameplay trailer, and beta sign ups available for visitors to the annual trade show in Las Vegas. More »

Mysterious LEGO Pods Falling From Space

Mike Fahey — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:20:00 EST

Mysterious LEGO pods are appearing around the globe, piloted by minifig pilots that may hold the key to a parallel universe. Only you and The Bradford Rant Institute of Cosmic Kinesis can solve this riddle. More »

Come Party for Child's Play in Denver

Brian Crecente — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:00:00 EDT

The holidays are approaching and that means it's time for Kotaku's annual Denver fundraiser. More »

Jumpgate Is Codemasters' Biggest Beta Ever

Mike Fahey — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:20:00 EDT

With more than a quarter of a million beta sign ups in North America and Europe, Net Devil's space combat MMO Jumpgate Evolution is the biggest beta campaign More »

Jumpgate's E3 Trailer Is Sci-Fi Epic

Mike Fahey — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:40:00 EDT

This is a time for heroes...for champions...for men with deep voices and British accents to herald the coming of NetDevil's Jumpgate Evolution. More »

Jumpgate Multiplayer Preview: Shades Of Descent

Mike Fahey — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:20:00 EDT

We descended into the depths of a hollow space station to try out the player-versus-player combat in NetDevil's Jumpgate Evolution. More »

Jumpgate Special Edition Is Full Of Stars

Mike Fahey — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:40:00 EDT

The special edition box set for NetDevil's Jumpgate: Evolution certainly doesn't suffer from a lack of space and space by-products. More »

Jumpgate Evolution Is Completely Full Of Ships

Mike Fahey — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:20:00 EDT

Codemasters has released new screenshots and concept art featuring the true stars of NetDevil's Jumpgate Evolution - the ships. More »

Jumpgate Evolution: When Darkness Falls

Mike Fahey — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:20:00 EDT

The latest trailer and screens for Net Devil's massively mutiplayer online space combat extravaganza Jumpgate Evolution wants to know which side you'll be on when darkness falls. More »

Jumpgate: Eve on Fast Forward

AJ Glasser — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:30:00 EST

Massively Mutiplayer Online games seem suited to space, which is probably why Eve Online is still around after all these years. More »

LEGO Universe Won't Arrive This Year

Brian Crecente — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:18:50 EST

Online multiplayer game LEGO Universe won't be coming out this year as planned, the LEGO Group told Kotaku this morning. More »

Lego Racers Return in 2009, but in What Form?

Owen Good — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:00:00 EST

We last heard about LEGO Racers in 2007 — NetDevil was remaking it as a flash game. But a LEGO fansite says 2009 boxes tease the game, and it sounds like a console release. More »

150K Sign Up For Jumpgate Beta

Mike Fahey — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:30:00 EST

If there's one PC genre we can never have too much of, it's space combat. Codemasters and NetDevil know this, and so do the 150,000+ users who have signed up for the beta of their upcoming MMO Jumpgate Evolution. More »

A Tour of NetDevil's Game Studio

Adam Barenblat — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:30:00 EDT

After Crecente and I got a good look at Jumpgate Evolution we convinced them to show us around the joint. The place is like Disneyland meets game development. It's a creative person's heaven. Basically their new studio is divided into two parts. Half of the building is dedicated to Lego Universe while the other half is of course, Jumpgate Evolution. There's also a Lego builders area containing millions of bricks - so the 3D artists can physically build their creations- before they input them into the computer. Last but not least, we got to see some of the insane LUPS (Lego Universe Partners) creations. Some of the projects consisted of thousands of Legos and must have taken days to build. More »

A Fireside Chat With Hermann Peterscheck On Jumpgate Evolution

Adam Barenblat — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Actually, we weren't literally next to a warm-crackling fire, but it was right after we finished our play test of Jumpgate Evolution. Hermann Peterscheck was nice enough to give us a little more time and share his thoughts regarding some of the things they want to do, before Jumpgate ends up in our hands. We talked lots about PvP, PvE and how that will shape the way you play the game. More »

A Visit To NetDevil: Hands On With Jumpgate Evolution

Adam Barenblat — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:40:26 EDT

Following up on where we left off, the guys at NetDevil were merciful and — even though they caught Crecente trying to get a sneak peak at Lego Universe — kind enough to give us some hands on time with a build of Jumpgate Evolution. Hermann Peterscheck gave us the grand tour of Jumpgate on a monster triple 24 inch monitor setup, sporting a resolution near 5000x1080. He explained to us some of the goals the team had been trying to achieve with the title since the last time Crecente gave it a try. More »

Lego Universe To Feature Star Wars & Other Lego Game IP?

Stuart Houghton — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:40:00 EDT

The Lego Universe MMO is shaping up nicely, with what the developers told us would be "really core LEGO play" - building stuff, in other words. More »

New Jumpgate: Evolution Trailer

Adam Barenblat — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:30:00 EDT

From our visit last week at Net Devil, I can tell you first hand Jumpgate: Evolution is a stunning looking game. Today we got a new trailer for you guys showing off some of the awesome space environments. Expect the game sometime next year for PC. More »

A Visit to NetDevil

Brian Crecente — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Adam and I had a chance to run over to NetDevil's office last week to talk with them about their work on the upcoming LEGO massively multiplayer online game LEGO Universe. We also got a tour of their place, including the fabled LEGO library and got some more hands on time with an up-to-the-minute build of Jumpgate Evolution. More »

Lego MMO Being Worked On By Lego ZEALOTS

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:30:00 EDT

NetDevil - the guys behind the upcoming Lego MMO Lego Universe - are taking the game seriously. Very seriously. So seriously that they've made some changes to the normal development process by making use of a team of die-hard, adult, "purist" Lego fans. Lead producer Ryan Seabury explains: More »