Remember a couple of years ago when it seemed like every company started opening up a virtual presence in Second Life in order to “get with the times”? And remember how every magazine and newspaper had a big feature about how Second Life would forever change the way the Internet and world works? Well, things [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 21, 2008
After only one year on the market, Tabula Rasa, the science fiction MMORPG from developer NCsoft, has announced it will be shutting down its service on February 28, 2009. According to a statement made on the Tabula Rasa news page by the TR development team, the game’s poor performance is the primary reason for the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 19, 2008
When GameTap discovered in early February that Electronic Arts had a secret division — codename Blueprint — designed to produce games leveraging the power of social networking havens like Facebook, we were interested. Weeks later, when Variety uncovered that the division housed the same development team reporting to Steven Spielberg, we were intrigued. Ditto for [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 19, 2008
In news that was as surprising to the players and people involved as it was to those who watched it, the Championship Gaming Series closed its doors hours ago, citing economic reasons. While eSports leagues have been suffering this year, the closure of the CGS came out of left field; talking with a few of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 14, 2008
Want to know how to start a promising company, secure $400 million in funding, and then be forced to shut down 17 months later because you’ve run out of cash? If you do, pay close attention to the story of Brash Entertainment, because that’s exactly what they’ve managed to do, according to Variety. When it was [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 28, 2008
In a sad bit of news from the gaming editorial front, GameTap will be shutting down its editorial division to maintain its focus on the game content of the website. According to content vice president Richard Sanchez, this decision is not a reflection of the quality of the editorial output of the site but a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 2, 2008
GameCyte speaks with Don Daglow about the possible future of Stormfront.
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
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