Game Industry
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 [...]
Take-Two Sues Apogee over Duke Nukem Forever
It appears that gamers aren’t the only ones to be surprised at just how long Duke Nukem Forever has been in development; Take-Two, who was suppose to be the future publisher of the infamous title, is now suing Apogee and 3D Realms. This lawsuit comes after the many years spent in development, the game having [...]
Metaplace Open Beta Launches Today
Last night at the in-game party in Metaplace Central, company-head and project-lead Raph Koster announced that the virtual world / game development platform, Metaplace, will be entering into Open Beta today as part of their “soft launch”. Metaplace, for those of you who are unaware, is a virtual world that allows users to create their [...]
EVE Shows Niche MMO Markets Can Work – Again
A few days ago it was EVE Online’s 6th anniversary. It was also the day they announced that they gained over 300,000 users, broke yet another record with well over 53,000 people sharing a single virtual world at one time, and that they were the second largest Western subscription based MMO. Talk about a busy [...]
