MTV Networks Brings Korean MMOGs To North America basically says that the new North American publisher for Asian megahits Kart Rider, Audition, and Maple Story is… MTV.
I’ve mentioned before that I think it’s outsiders to the game industry who are going to come in and co-opt the online game space. We’ll see whether this case in particular is a harbinger of things to come…
Some games try to give you the sensation of being Spiderman.
Other games try to tell the truth about it. Heh.
My talk at Project Horseshoe was called “Influences.” And here it is, transcribed for your pleasure, with occasional audience interjections.
It is really interesting reading Kira Snyder’s experiences with the Warner Bros. Television Writers Workshop she has recently been lucky enough to get accepted to. And the reason it is interesting is because there’s nothing remotely like this in the games business.
This one is Kongregate,
which is founded by someone I worked with a very very long time ago for two weeks. 😉 We overlapped at the very beginnings of UO, back at Origin. I’ve been following it for a little while, but he came out of the woodwork today when he saw I had blogged pjio.com, to extend an invite to readers of this blog:
