Mr. McBadTouch visits Green.com
We took some time yesterday to dip into Green.com, one of the many, many new kids’ virtual worlds in perpetual beta. The kids’ virtual world space is hot like a tamale these days, thanks in large part to the $700 million buyout by Disney of reigning champeen Club Penguin last year. Investors are flocking to [...] Keep Reading
Ankama Lanches Eye-Popping Wakfu Beta
The first art book released by French MMORPG team Ankama has been a staple in our collection since we were lucky enough to snag one at E3 a few years ago. According to Worlds in Motion.biz, Ankama has launched their closed beta for Wakfu, the follow-up to Dofus. Due to my addictive personality, i’ve avoided [...] Keep Reading
Avatar Permutations: i call bullshit
i was just reading an interview on the Worlds In Motion biz site with Jamie Ottilie, whose studio is set to release a kid-targeted MMO called Freaky Creatures. In the interview, Ottilie crows: The initial creatures come with 50 different parts, 20 powers and 4 objects that can be placed into the creature’s lair. The [...] Keep Reading
The Myth of In-Game Advertising Perpetuated
A day after i railed against invoking Coke in discussions of in-game advertising, Massively writer Shawn Schuster predictably invoked Coke in a discussion of in-game advertisting, in his post The Eve of In-Game Advertising. And (as a few of his readers were quick to point out), if Schuster thinks that in-game advertising is just now [...] Keep Reading





