Lest anyone doubt that major media companies are serious about the virtual space, I have to point out that MTV’s announcement of ‘Virtual Hills’ means that they will shortly have more MMO titles launched than Cryptic or Blizzard (well, unless you count CoV as a full game). Disney’s at three, which puts it ahead of much of the pack and tied with Turbine. EA has launched four and SOE five. In NC’s case, it depends whether you count the Korean ones and the “casual” games…

More importantly, this is MTV’s second one in six months. At this rate, you do the math.

This is kinda neat. 🙂 My first poster series!

Link: RPGnet Forums – View Single Post – [Photoshop] Rpg motivational posters, based of course on these.

Anyone out there want to try doing better? 🙂

With the launch of Burning Crusade, people are already commenting on how much the value of older items has dropped. I’ve seen folks who are new to the whole expansion thing wondering about past games, and whether the same was true, and how much the buying power of past currencies fell in the wake of expansions. They even asked for links to studies.

Continue reading »