Article centered on China, with more of the usual figures and a good glimpse into the culture of it there.
Cartoon Network’s turn
(Visited 13272 times)It’s been an ill-kept secret, but now it’s official that Cartoon Network will have an MMO.
Yet another in the march of the major media licenses. Interestingly, this one looks to be following the free play model, with microtransactions. It will be interesting to see how kids + microtransactions mixes in the Western market.
Community building
(Visited 30589 times)Business Week Online just published an article on new media and community that’s an excerpt from Henry Jenkins‘ new book. Edit: Looks like it came originally from Next Generation. It heavily references the work that we did early on in SWG in building community.
These days, it sure seems like there’s a mixed reaction to how the community is handled, but I do think we did a pretty good job back then, and at the time it was widely referenced as a model.