One of the questions the moderator asked during our panel at ICE 08 was whether or not the virtual world/MMO racket was a bubble. i said “no”, emphatically, and i’m sticking to my guns. i do believe that interest and expectations are inflated beyond what the market will bear, however. Just as investors sunk millions [...] Keep Reading

It’s a week of fail, as Disney announces the closure of its Virtual Magic Kingdom casual kids’ MMO (as reported over at Worlds in Motion). i got to peer into the crystal ball a year ago at the 2007 Game Developers’ Conference, where i shot the breeze with someone working on the project. He said [...] Keep Reading

Kids’ entertainment juggernaut Nickelodeon announced this week that it will blow out its already 5000-strong game library by 1600 more games, including three more kid-based MMOs, according to Joystiq. Pursuant to my admittedly unprofessional rant a few weeks ago, Nicktropolis Looks Like Ass, i have to wonder whether the newest projects in development over there [...] Keep Reading

MMO-focussed site Massively is also covering the smacktalk coming from Corey Bridges, founder of Multiverse. A while back someone said that it would take at least a $1 billion dollar super project to take on World of Warcraft. But maybe, as it was with the Roman Empire, the wolves at Blizzard’s gate will be countless [...] Keep Reading

Joystiq has a report from one of the South by Southwest sessions by Corey Bridges, one of the people behind Multiverse. Multiverse is a tool enabling small development teams to make big games. i talked about a couple of Multiverse projects in my interview on Teevee Ontario last week. LunarQuest is the University of Florida’s [...] Keep Reading