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Rise From Your Grave! Heatwave Revives Gods and Heroes
You may recognize the name Gods and Heroes from a few years back. It was a game being developed by Perpetual Entertainment, the studio that was also developing Star Trek Online before they closed their doors. Whenever a studio closes, it is always a sad. Developers find themselves out of work, and the games that [...]
Cheyenne Mountain Files for Bankruptcy
As much as I’d hate for it to seem like I’m coming out of blargging-retirement just to talk about how Stargate: Resistance and Stargate Worlds developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment is filing for Chapter 11, and it really is more of a coincidence than anything, I practically feel required to talk about this one.
I’ve been skeptical about Stargate [...]
EA Buys Out Playfish, Lays Off Other Employees
.Today brings both interesting news and bad news out of Electric Arts. It was announced that EA has sank $300 million into purchasing Playfish, a casual game studio that’s made a splash on Facebook. While casual web games are certainly no new thing for EA, there is no doubt in my mind that they’ll be [...]
3D Realms Quotes from Monty Python: "We're Not Dead Yet!"
Taking a cue from their own infamous franchise, Duke Nukem developers 3D Realms, who supposedly recently went out of business, has stated that they aren’t quite so inclined to die off. The company let many of their employees go recently, removing most everyone who had been working on Duke Nukem Forever. However, the studio claims [...]
Free Realms Hits One Million Accounts in 18 Days
Back at the Game Developers Conference in 2007, there were a few major topics/buzz words being tossed around at the time. One of them was “emergent gameplay,” which actually inspired the name of this website, and the other one was “micro-transactions.” When I say micro-transactions though, I don’t necessarily mean the flood of downloadable content [...]