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NCsoft plans to build two new online titles using Epic’s Unreal Engine 3. The two firms have announced a licensing deal for the engine which discloses that NCsoft will gain access to all the latest updates to UE3 which make it "the best possible offering for cross-platform game development for …
Read More »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. Speaking to EGM magazine, Rockstar founder Sam Houser has said that an MMO version of Grand Theft Auto is very, very doable” and …
Read More »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. After again stating that it would take a huge financial effort to usurp World of Warcraft from its global MMO throne, Gamespot …
Read More »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 PC to consoles – and that the shift will be a technically challenging one. "We have to really optimize for …
Read More »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 online game design since the release of his first game Ultima Online in 1997. He said: "Game design has not …
Read More »Star Vault gets Unreal
Swedish studio signs up Epic engine for MMO RPG
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