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eve online
Bank Heist Causes Bank Run in EVE Onlne
Last month, the swindling of more than 200 billion ISK resulted in an actual run on a virtual bank in EVE Online. The best part? The loot was sold IRL - just $5,000. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by trunkenmath: The weirdest part? I heard this on reuters BEFORE kotaku. 20 Responses | Other threads
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eve online
Eve Online Novelized.. Again
Another novel set in the gamer-driven world of Eve Online is hitting this fall, this time with the backing of Sci-Fi/Fantasy book publishing giant Tor. More »
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Comment by BubbleF**kingBuddy: 400 pages? That sounds almost as boring as the game. Almost. 7 Responses | Other threads
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happy birthday
EVE Online Celebrates 6th Anniversary With Cake
With EVE Online turning six years-old today and surpassing the 300,000 active subscriber mark over the past few days, there was really only one way for developer CCP to celebrate - spaceship cake. More » -
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The Secret To CCP's Success
During a recent visit, CCP North America president Mike Tinney explained how the EVE Online developers continue to expand in an economic environment where many online gaming companies are cutting back. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Morberis: Woooo I'd like to think that the game model employed by Eve Online, that of a complex sandbox, is the new... 16 Responses | Other threads
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clips
EVE Online: Apocrypha Launches This Week
Here's the official trailer for the EVE Online: Apocrypha, forever changing the face of CCP's star-spanning space epic later this week. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Nick Kent: I recall something ages ago about how they were going to add a feature so that you could walk around... 6 Responses | Other threads
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pc
EVE Online Scandals Are Good For Business
Massively-multiplayer game EVE Online has had its fair share of scandals and controversies. That's what happens when you let the gamers run themselves. But they've hardly been a deterrent to subscriptions. More »
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Comment by PratzStrike: I really can't bring myself to play EVE for three reasons. For one, I look at the game and go... 7 Responses | Other threads
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ccp
EVE Expansion Breeds Tougher Enemies
EVE Online players had better start gearing up for battle now, as the Apocrypha expansion unleashes a whole new breed of tougher non-player character enemies upon the universe. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Anaxymander: I think the idea of making the PVE rats smarter is very wise. The learning curve puts off a lot... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Grand Theft ISK
EVE Online Banker Robs From The Rich, Gives To Himself
EVE Online has banks. Run by EVE Online players. And EVE Online players are as susceptible to embezzling over 80 billion ISK (the game's currency) then doing a runner as any of us. More »
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Comment by ReconToaster.: I think there should be some sort of in game FBI. They could track down players and recover funds like... 10 Responses | Other threads
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time warp
EVE Online Drops Classic Client Support, Welcomes Players To This Century
CCP has announced plans to phase out the current Classic Client for EVE Online in favor of a new system that could require users to upgrade for the first time in a decade. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Dr Durdon: Aaahh, the old video card conundrum. I remember when shelf life for a new system was around 5 years.... 9 Responses | Other threads
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Universal Growth
EVE Online Breaks Concurrent User Record
Five years old and growing! EVE Online celebrated the beginning of the new year by reaching a new record for concurrent users connected to the game, with more than 45,000 players online at once. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by seanmaclean: 45,186 users logged into one server cluster is just madness. CCP proves that, once again, they are ahead of the... 3 Responses | Other threads
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lost in space
How To Spend Your EVE Online Trial Period
Massively has posted an excellent article for those interested in trying out EVE Online that details exactly what you should do in order to get the most out of your free trial. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Nahir: I have had an itch to try out what all the fuss is about MMORPG's and EVE has been one... 8 Responses | Other threads
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ccp
EVE Online Developers Ponder Moving Out Of Home
You think things are tough (economically speaking) in your home country? Spare a thought for Iceland. Things are really tough there. So tough that EVE Online developers CCP might be forced to move out. More »
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Comment by Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.: Thats pretty bad if even the world's leading group of spreadhseet fanatics can't figure out how to stay there. 10 Responses | Other threads
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Space Balls
EVE Celebrates Holidays With Interstellar Snowball Fights
In space, no one can hear you yell, "Duck!" EVE Online players are logging in today to discover that their hangar contains a special gift - a snowball launcher and 300 rounds of ammunition. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by 492b2 3b5t5k4mk3 3ñx39: Looks fun, is EVE p2p or free? Is it good? 9 Responses | Other threads
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eve online
When EVE Online Textures Go Wrong
Hey, making massively multiplayer online games is difficult. Sometimes things slip through the cracks. But that doesn't mean we can't poke fun at EVE Online when it accidentally snatches the totally wrong texture from the hard-drive. More »
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Comment by CmdrBladeHearts is replacing his perfectly good screen name to express desire for a The World Ends With You sequel. Get on it!: This could reak havok for someone hiding a porn stash... 12 Responses | Other threads
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eve online
EVE Council Of Stellar Management Voting Ends Friday
In my efforts to learn more about the pretty space game EVE Online before it suddenly turns into Deep Space Nine with the Walking in Stations expansion, I've been reading a great deal about the Council for Stellar Management, an organization of players, appointed by player vote, that bring important player concerns directly to developer CCP, acting on their behalf. It's basically the first democratically-elected governing body in a virtual world, to which players can submit their grievances and suggestions which are then passed on to CCP if deemed important enough to address. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by song: Eve Online <3 No other game has comparable depth when it comes to human interaction - because with the ever-present posibility... 4 Responses | Other threads
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eve online
CCP Teases EVE-like FPS, Console Strategy
While EVE Online developer CCP is currently focused on getting their newly announced yet unnamed largest expansion ever ready for next March, they definitely have some new tricks up their sleeves aside from EVE and the White Wolf World of Darkness MMO. At their annual fan festival this past weekend, footage was shown of a "Halo-like" shooter that took place on a planet like earth, with weapons and buildings reminiscent of the space MMO's art style. There was also footage of a land vehicle driving across the planet's surface. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.: EVE is by far the worst mmo I've ever had the displeasure of downloading. Avoid at all cost. 6 Responses | Other threads
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eve online
EVE Online's Walking Expansion Adds Player-Made Shops
I don't think I will be able to resist the call of EVE Online much longer. At CCP's Fanfest convention in Reykjavik, Iceland, the company has revealed further plans for the upcoming Walking In Stations expansion, which for the first time will allow players to get off of their ships and socialize a bit. Where will they socialize? In player created bars and shops, apparently. Players will be able to purchase blueprints, install them in empty sockets in space station promenades, and customize them with different NPCs, rules, vendors, and custom dialog. Space stations will also have mini-games available to play and wager on. It's so Deep Space Nine you'll think every inanimate object is secretly Odo. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Chibirazi: Ehehe people who just clicked through char creation and ended up with the single most ugly char in history will... 3 Responses | Other threads
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world of warcraft
US Army To Test Artificial Intelligence In MMOs
The US Army are working on fake soldiers. That are, to dumb the science down a pinch, holographic projections imbued with artificial intelligence. These fake troops can then be used for stuff like training exercises. Anyway, to test the AI for these holo-soldiers, the Army wants to set them up in games like World of Warcraft and Eve Online. They figure that if the AI - which can be designed to speak in local slang and make human conversation - can pass for human in the online realm, they'll be on the right track. Hopefully the AI doesn't act too human, and end up quitting the army, moving in with its parents and blowing 19 hours a day grinding away on WoW. More »
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Comment by Asbestos_Underwear: pass for human online? No problem, just insult anybody you meet. Friendly person = white wash corporate policy NPC. Unfriendly... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Quantum Rise
Eve Online Gets Free Quantum Rise
EVE Online has received its ninth major expansion - Quantum Rise. More »
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Comment by Ravioli_Sumo: Awesome. I really like this game, it's the only MMO that I've really gotten into. 8 Responses | Other threads
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looking for love
Gaming for Love: Finding Love in MMOs
There's a more or less constant trickle of mainstream articles discussing people 'finding love in all the wrong places' — but Tom Francis has a hilarious look at his attempts to play the dating game in MMOs. He tracks his progress in EVE Online, WoW and City of Heroes. The CoH section is my personal favorite, featuring Francis' trenchcoated character, 'Manley Power,' whose bio page read "Power's two favourite things are commitment and changing himself.": More »
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Comment by MellowJade: One of my friends on RO liked me once. I thought it was funny that every guy on RO plays... more » | Other threads
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eve online
NY Times Covers EVE Online Summit, Runs it in "Television" Section
OK, many video games are indeed played on a TV, but correct me if I'm wrong, EVE is a PC game, so it's most likely played on a monitor, right? More »
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By Owen GoodComment by maraxusofk: lol if there is a hookup, 40 bucks says its not pretty. i mean honestly, it is a bunch of... more » | Other threads
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books
Interview: 'This Gaming Life' Travels Online Game Culture, Attitudes
Veteran UK game journalist Jim Rossignol, currently one of the Big Four at the Rock Paper Shotgun blog, has just published a book called 'This Gaming Life,' documenting his experiences in three different cities pursuing and documenting the culture of online games. More »
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Comment by ravelin: I want to see more books like this! I think games can definitely be a life changing force, I certainly... more » | Other threads
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eve online
EVE Online Enters Empyrean Age
The latest expansion to CCP Games' deep space MMO EVE Online has just gone live, bringing space-miners, space-moguls, and space-fighters alike into the Empyrean Age. The expansion focuses on two of the most important aspects of any MMO, storyline and PVP, introducing factional warfare, a system of militia ranks, system occupancy, combat zones, and factional warfare bases for players to capture and control. Each of the factions now has a corporation open to all pilots to help coordinate war efforts. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Replica23: @robo-magic: "If I didn't have a full time job, a girlfriend and a life, I would totally play EVE Online..." *rolls... more » | Other threads
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eve online
EVE Online Convenes Real-World Elected Council
Iceland. It's where all the cool kids go to have a summit. Reagan and Gorbachev rapped about nukes there in 1985; 20 years later, the Supreme Metal Council condemned the overuse of the devil horns hand-signal. And now something billing itself as EVE Online's democratically elected government will meet there, probably because it's too far for Something Awful to show up and grief the shit out of it. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by Mister Adequate: EVE is waayyyyy hardcore. I love it. Well no, I mean, I can't stick with it, it's too much for... more » | Other threads
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mmo milestone
EVE Online Celebrates Five Years With A Surprise
CCP's EVE Online fans have a "surprise gift" in store for current subscribers who log in after May 6th, to celebrate the game's five-year anniversary. Ooh, what is it? More »
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Comment by M. Kava: I really enjoyed EVE when I played the two-week trial but the speed of the game was honestly too slow... more » | Other threads
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EVE Online Source Code Leaked, No Worries
The source code for CCP's EVE Online has been popping up on torrent trackers all over the place this week, leading to players worrying about the security of their accounts, as well as having the peace, sleep-inducing serenity of their mining efforts disturbed. CCP assures everyone that the leak will have no adverse effects on the EVE community."The server-side interface used by the client is carefully protected to ensure that no abusive or unwanted information is transmitted to, or from the internal EVE server systems. Nothing the EVE client can do can affect the game state, no advantage can be gained by manipulating the EVE client, no advantageous or disadvantageous information can be transmitted to other EVE users by altering the EVE client."
CCP is still mum on how the source code was accessed, so feel free to make up your own story. Mine involves romance, intrigue, and the movie guy voice saying, "The only thing hotter than their love...was her betrayal." More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Max Freak: Even if the server software is leaked, pirates will need ONE big iron (server) to run it. EVE are boasting all... more » | Other threads
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eve online
EVE Online and World of Darkness: Reynir Harðarson on MMOs
Rock, Paper, Shotgun has a great (as always) interview up with Reynir Harðarson, one of the minds behind EVE Online, on EVE, new MMO-in-production World Of Darkness, MMOs in general, and why MMOs should be more like ... Facebook? More »
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Comment by dreamshade: And what do EVE Online and Facebook both have in common? They're both full of the elitists that were... more » | Other threads
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griefers
Inside the Minds(?) of Griefers
Sorry if this one is a little late to the party. But it's the weekend, time for some longer think pieces. And besides, finding posts for Kotaku on the weekend is a bit like drafting a fantasy team. (Alright, World of Warcraft violence study, I'm going with you if ... DAMMIT. McWhertor took it ...) More » -
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EVE Online Gets New Faces, Places
If you're at all interested in EVE Online, and can remember back to June 2007, you'll remember CCP's Magnus Bergsson saying that women don't want to be spaceships. What they preferred (and I'm guessing a lot of people who aren't women also preferred) was to interact with people face-to-face. Nearly a year later, then, here's CCP's way of addressing this: they're adding not just full-body player avatars to the game, but also interior maps for the space stations, in which you can wander around and hang out with other players. Sounds trivial, but should add a lot of depth and personality to a game that's been lacking a little in both. More details on these and more in the excellent interview below. More »
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Comment by Huckleberry: I wouldn't say that EVE is lacking depth, personally. It's just an exceptionally hardcore game, and obviously that's something... more » | Other threads
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patch issues
The EVE Online BOOT.INI Problem Explained
Back on the sixth, popular space MMO EVE Online released their Trinity update, which added an all-new (and quite dazzling) graphics engine, with the unfortunate side-effect of deleting some XP users' BOOT.INI file, effectively stopping their PC from booting. While a "We're so sorry" and a fix would have sufficed, the director of the EVE Online software group Dr. Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson has posted a dev blog explaining the bug in great detail, from origin to fix to helping customers get their PCs up and running again by calling in external tech support like the Geek Squad. While the explanation basically amounts to irresponsibility on the team's part and lack of diverse hardware - which is really inexcusable - CCP showed some real class in fixing the issue, which could explain why they have a fan base so loyal they actually fly to Reykjavík, Iceland to hang out with them. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Sunjammer: I <3 Eve, even if i don't play it (i don't play games that are designed to take my time... more » | Other threads
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hole plugged
EVE Online, Breached But Back
EVE Online went down for nearly nine hours last Friday due to a security breach. Here's more from their official statement:...we discovered an anomaly in the EVE Online Database indicating a potential exploit. Our policy in such cases is to mobilize a taskforce of internal and external experts to evaluate the situation...that group concluded that our best course of action was to go completely dark while an exhaustive scan of our entire infrastructure was executed.
Apparently no accounts were compromised, but hopefully steps are being taken to prevent such a hack in the future. Because no one wants their virtual self or their real self paying for someone else's space ship. More »
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By Mark WilsonComment by ZekeSulastin: Also, poor Ishkur ;_; one of my favorite little ships in the game ... more » | Other threads
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game design
World of Evecraft?
Jim Rossignol has some thoughts up over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun on MMO design - a study in why, despite WoW being WoW and 'the' MMORPG in a lot of ways, EVE Online is potentially a better base for future MMO designs. Not in terms of creating a better "PvP-heavy spaceship-centric world," but by applying some of their design principles to games with more mass appeal? The two concepts that Rossignol picks out as being vast improvements over the WoW model are no levels (collecting skills, not level grinding, becomes the object) and money - not XP - would become the driving force in a game. There are some interesting thoughts, but lest you think it's an EVE love fest, he cautions: More »
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Comment by Sauceinator: EVE and WoW are two massively different games. A couple things: 1. When I play WoW I expect to be doing... more » | Other threads
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multi-platform
EVE Going Online For Linux and Mac
No game has recreated the vast loneliness of outer space better than CCP Game's EVE Online. Now, thanks to a partnership with TransGaming Inc., the universe is about to get a lot less lonely as Mac and Linux users will be able to log in and shoot mining lasers at floating rocks endlessly by the end of this year. TransGaming is a company that specializes in portability products that allow for games to be ported across multiple platforms without having to redevelop."We're pleased to extend our relationship with TransGaming, as the company's expertise allows us to deliver the most innovative MMOG to more platforms," said Halldor Fannar, CTO of CCP Games. "By integrating TransGaming's excellent technology, we are able to keep our laser-focus on evolving EVE Online, while simultaneously expanding the EVE universe to even more players."
While Linux users can already play EVE using Cedega, the game will now be released the Windows to Linux converter built in. The Mac version will utilize the Cider portability engine. I just hope this doesn't ultimately result in less rocks for me to shoot at. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by bobbiac: Please Note: Cider and the enterprise version of Cedega are still wrappers. They Surround the program and translate it into... more » | Other threads
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space monies
EVE Online Hires Full-Time Economist
Countless economists all over the world right now are looking out their little economist windows, dreaming of balancing figures and charting trends in some other, more wondrous land than the one we live in. Now Dr. Eyolfur Guomundsson is living that dream, as EVE Online creators CCP hire him on to be the in-world lead economist for the game. Over the years countless third parties and individuals have took it upon themselves to track the financial development of MMO world's, but this marks the first time a gaming company has actually appointed someone dedicated to the task themselves. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by hakonthrastar: his name is actually Eyjólfur Guðmundsson. more » | Other threads
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eve online
CCP Launches EVE TV
The folks from CCP and EVE Online magazine publishers MM Publishers Ltd. first got together to create an online television station in order to broadcast their 2006 PVP tournament live over the internet. Now EVE TV returns as a full-on internet television show, promising weekly news from in and around the EVE universe. Hosted by live anchors SpiralJunkie and StevieSG, they'll be joined by a core reporting team as well as countless in-game correspondents to deliver in-game news such as economic reports and player battles along with real-world interviews with developers and players alike. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by Manimalius: Hate to sound like a broken record, but I as well REALLY wanted to love EVE and also got bored... more » | Other threads
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Comment by kevinyung89: I tried the trial version and I was just down right confused with all the controls when i started out.... more » | Other threads
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you're doing it wrong
EVE Boss On Fantasy MMOs - Quit It
CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Petursson has some excellent advice for companies trying to elbow their way into the World of Warcraft dominated realm of fantasy MMORPGs. Don't. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz Petursson makes far too much sense for a game company CEO. More »
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By Mike FaheyComment by The Commissar: "The MMO market is still very young and there is a ton more room to grow. " This is untrue. People... more » | Other threads
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By Mike FaheyComment by Elathiel: Hi guys! I'm Elathiel, from MMO Portal. To answer some of the questions you've had... Square Enix did not respond to any of... more » | Other threads
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By Mike FaheyComment by Volimar: The problem is that after the apocalypse, gehenna, whatever the ending of mage was etc. The World of Darkness... more » | Other threads
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