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Dave Pottinger, the tech boss at ill-fated Microsoft owned studio and Halo Wars developer Ensemble, has stated that the long-rumoured Halo MMO had been green lit and was well underway before the Xbox 360 platform holder pulled the plug on the project. Developmag.com has the full story – click here …
Read More »Halo MMO was well underway
Ensemble team working on title was up to nearly 40 people; game model was based on World of Warcraft
Read More »Richard Garriott quits NCsoft
Space traveller to leave MMO firm as it posts profits drop for quarter ending September 30th
Read More »LOTR Online expansion dated
UK publisher and developer Codemasters has confirmed that its latest expansion to The Lord of the Rings Online, named Mines of Moria, will be released in both Europe and America on November 18th. The firm has also announced a number of pre-order incentives for Turbine’s expansion, including the chance to …
Read More »Codemasters to close RF Online
Britsoft firm Codemasters has announced that it to turn off its European servers for its PC MMO RF Online on November 10th. A statement on the official site claims that the decision was reached following the failure to agree contract renewal terms with the game’s Korean developer CCR, resulting in …
Read More »360 version of Age of Conan sharpens blade
Age of Conan developer Funcom has moved to quash speculation that the long-awaited Xbox 360 version of its MMO adventure Age of Conan is no longer on the cards. The firm’s Erling Ellingsen told Eurogamer: The Xbox 360 version is still very much set to happen and we are working …
Read More »Star Trek Online details uncloak
After a slight technical hiccup which saw high web traffic bring the official site down, a host of details about the upcoming Star Trek Online have been unveiled by developer Cryptic Studios. A new gameplay trailer has been posted on the Star Trek Online site, along with lots of other …
Read More »E3 08: KOTOR MMO confirmed
E3 may be over but the big-hitting announcements just keep creeping out – this time it’s the turn of EA chief executive John Riccitiello who has confirmed that the EA-owned BioWare is working on an MMO version of its hugely popular Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Speaking to …
Read More »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 Crossing series. VG247 reports that the personal blog of Nintendo Official Magazine staffer Tom East carried a post stating that: …
Read More »Sony Online banking on the ‘3D-like’ transformative power of the MMO
Format-holder's online games studio says massively multiplayer games can transform the industry the way 3D graphics did
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