DC Online to get Crackdown AI
In a fairly blase bit of news, Sony Online Entertainment has announced that they'll be using Kynogen's Kynapse AI technology for the DC Comics MMO they currently have in development. Kynapse has been used in such successful games as Lord of the Rings Online, Fable 2, and Crackdown, though if you asked us we probably wouldn't be able to figure out what is quite so remarkable about it. The focus of their technology seems to be AI that works well in large environments, which would fit well with the "massive" part of the MMO equation, but you'd really be hard-pressed to find an MMO where that wasn't the case.
If we were of a more conspiratorial bend, we might suggest that SOE is using this otherwise innocuous piece of news filler to simply remind gamers everywhere that not every officially-licensed super hero MMO out there is rumored to be on the chopping block. But that would be completely unprofessional, and we'd never do anything like that...
[Via NextGen]
