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