Entries in 'mmo' (217)

Signs point to E3 Animal Crossing announcement

Signs point to E3 Animal Crossing announcement

Alongside talk of a new motion-sensing Xbox 360 joypad, another near certainty for E3 appears to be an announcement from Nintendo of a Wii version of its hugely popular Animal ...
Ben Parfitt
by Ben Parfitt
on Jul 9th 2008 at 2:27PM in News
Unreal Engine 3 snapped up by NCsoft

Unreal Engine 3 snapped up by NCsoft

NCsoft plans to build two new online titles using Epic's Unreal Engine 3.

Ben Parfitt
by Ben Parfitt
on Mar 26th 2008 at 10:03AM in News
Rockstar: GTA MMO a ‘compelling proposition’

Rockstar: GTA MMO a ‘compelling proposition’

Whilst the news of online-mutliplayer for the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 4 is exciting enough, the latest rumblings to come out of Rockstar are even more titillating.

Ben Parfitt
by Ben Parfitt
on Mar 10th 2008 at 12:46PM in News
Activision hints at Call of Duty MMO

Activision hints at Call of Duty MMO

Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in California, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has spoken of his firm’s newfound MMO ambitions following its merger with Blizzard-owning publisher Vivendi-owned.

Ben Parfitt
by Ben Parfitt
on Mar 5th 2008 at 9:55AM in News

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NCsoft says console MMOs are inevitable

NCsoft says console MMOs are inevitable

In an interview with GameDaily, the president of NCsoft North America Chris Chung has said that it is inevitable that the MMO genre will eventually shift its focus from ...
Ben Parfitt
by Ben Parfitt
on Feb 5th 2008 at 10:11AM in News
MMO market lacks innnovation, says Garriott

MMO market lacks innnovation, says Garriott

NCsoft's Richard Garriott has opened the main two-day Develop conference with a speech dissecting the MMO genre he helped build, saying games developers have failed to add anything new to ...

by Tim Ingham
on Jul 25th 2007 at 12:00PM in News
Online gaming to beat $13 billion by 2012

Online gaming to beat $13 billion by 2012

A new report by analyst firm DFC Intelligence has claimed that the total worldwide market for both online gaming subscriptions and the trade of virtual in-game items will surpass $13 ...
by Ben Parfitt
on May 31st 2007 at 4:15PM in News
MMO vets form new Colony

MMO vets form new Colony

Ten industry veterans have formed a brand new development outfit named Colony Studios which aims to specialise in MMO content.

by Ben Parfitt
on May 1st 2007 at 2:30PM in News

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New MMO on the way from Blizzard

New MMO on the way from Blizzard

As if the world-conquering success of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft is not enough, the Vivendi-owned developer appears to be hard at work on another MMO project, the details of which ...
by Ben Parfitt
on Apr 30th 2007 at 4:15PM in News
New Star Wars MMO in the works?

New Star Wars MMO in the works?

Widely celebrated as the best Star Wars game of recent years, rumours have emerged that RPG specialist BioWare is hard at work on an MMO version of its hugely popular ...
by Ben Parfitt
on Apr 25th 2007 at 4:30PM in News
MMOs pose danger to publishers

MMOs pose danger to publishers

An upcoming report from DFC Intelligence will state that publishers stand to lose plenty of money in the MMO market as an increasing number of publishers look to follow the ...
by Ben Parfitt
on Mar 29th 2007 at 4:15PM in News
Perry invites gamers to build MMO racer

Perry invites gamers to build MMO racer

After announcing that he intends to take gaming into the Web 2.0 era of user-generated content, former Shiny Entertainment boss David Perry has revealed that his community driven MMO project ...
by Ben Parfitt
on Mar 26th 2007 at 4:15PM in News

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MMOs reach new heights in Western market

MMOs reach new heights in Western market

Its popularity in the Asian market is already well known, but MMO gaming is having an increasingly significant impact in the Western markets, a new report from analyst Screen Digest ...
by Ben Parfitt
on Mar 22nd 2007 at 10:00AM in News
Second Life heads to South coast

Second Life heads to South coast

Second Life developer Linden Lab is setting up a development team in the UK and has chosen coastal city Brighton for the location of its new office.

by Michael French
on Mar 21st 2007 at 2:00PM in News
Acclaim nets a million

Acclaim nets a million

GameSpot reports that resurrected label Acclaim, which is now a free-to-play MMO online games provider, has racked up its one millionth user just over a year after its re-birth.

by Ben Parfitt
on Mar 14th 2007 at 11:30AM in News
LEGO MMO on the way

LEGO MMO on the way

Denmark’s largest toy manufacturer, LEGO, has brought US online games developer NetDevil on board to work on a new MMO based on its globally successful toy brick brand.

by Ben Parfitt
on Mar 6th 2007 at 9:45AM in News

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NCsoft invests for the future

NCsoft invests for the future

The Korean games firm announced consolidated sales of KRW 338.7 billion (USD 361m) in 2006, but pre-tax profit dropped 41 per cent to KRW 50.0bn (USD 53.3m).

by Lisa Foster
on Feb 7th 2007 at 11:45AM in News