Massively Week in Review: January 28 - Feb 4, 2008

Looks like a fairly standard news-week for us at Massively. We had a bit of rumor, some good (and bad) news, and covered a few events. We also threw our two cents in on pretty well everything -- but that's the fun part of the job! If you missed out on anything good, click on through for the top news and views from Massively.

News

• PC titles only 14% of game sales in 2007, WoW leading the way

• WHA tellz you grots bout da' WAAAGH!

• The Secret World inspired by 'The Ring'

• Mabinogi hacked by a 16-year-old for $325K of virtual currency

• CES 2008: What the heck is Free Realms?

• Shadowbane resets with Patch 22, on test servers today

• Rumor: Warhammer Online collector's edition details leaked?

• Second Life: BBC documentary about virtual adultery

• IGE founders in legal battle

• Rumor: New Blizzard MMO to be Starcraft Online?

• Ladies and gentlemen: Flexiboobs

• Dungeon Runners releases characters in XML

• Liveblogged: Metaplace live developer chat today

• Blizzard defeats Peons4Hire gold farmers in court

• Sid Meier mentions possibility of a Civilization MMO

• Myst Online: Uru Live Tap-ped out again

Discussion

• MMOGology: Group dynamics

• Penny Arcade digs on DDO, encapsulates modern MMO industry

• Building a better MMOusetrap: The age old debate

• 8 things NASA needs to get right

• Ask Massively: No really, ask us!

• Behind the Curtain: Something Unexpected

• Games that could be MMOs: Spore

• The Digital Continuum: Comparing core concepts of WAR and WoW

• Space for a new style of MMO?

• Dragonlance: A property ripe for the pillaging