The Daily Recap
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The Digital Continuum: Diet WAR Diet Warhammer Online: same great taste, less content. Is it bad that the recently re-branded Mythic Entertainment just cut out a large portion of our Warhammer Online pie and put it in the deep freeze? |
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Flagship Studios: It's worse than that; he's dead, Jim Although our previous coverage of Flagship Studios — creators of Mythos and Hellgate: London — mentioned that a large, undisclosed portion of the staff were laid off, it was only today that we discovered the true extent of the damage. |
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How to beat game piracy according to David Perry David Perry, best known as the founder of Shiny Entertainment and Earthworm Jim, believes the way to beat game piracy is by distributing games for free. "The next big thing will be free games," said Perry ... |
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Neopets creators enter the MMO world with Twin Skies After a bit of a tease a couple of weeks ago, Meteor Games, founded by the creators of the kids Flash game portal Neopets, has announced details of their first-ever MMO. Twin Skies will be a blend of a traditional, 3D MMO with innovative out-of-game elements. For instance, certain web-based mini-games ... |
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Fallout and repercussions of the ActiBlizz merger Hail to the King, long may EA reign. But what of the recently completed merger between Activision and Vivendi? In an analysis on the Next Generation site, there's discussion of a possible future where Activision-Blizzard name hangs above Electronic Arts on the big board of game publishers. |