Joystiq has the scoop. I don’t actually care that basketball is already riddled with ads. I will go out of my way NOT to get an achievement that is a car or aftershave logo.
Not that I play basketball games anyway.
It is always sad to see an MMO have to close its doors. It’s now been announced officially that Sept 1st will be the last day that Auto Assault sees service.
There are further details here, from an interview with NCSoft.
Linden Lab has filed a response, and The Forge has an analysis.
Am I going to need to revamp the blog categories to add “legal,” “RMT,” and other such tags? Sigh.
Hey Raph, Just wanted to note that the CMP Game Group (who runs GDC, Austin GDC, Gamasutra, Game Developer magazine, etc!) has launched WorldsInMotion.biz, which is a Game Developer Research-branded online worlds blog. In my post over at GameSetWatch announcing it, I particularly mention your commentary on web-based online worlds passing the game biz by – we’re going to do our best to make sure that doesn’t happen, while documenting the most interesting bits of the current online worlds.
This is looking quite good, and another one to add to the virtual worlds-specific news sources that are rapidly springing up. In particular, the Online World Atlas that they are putting together looks like it could be extremely useful. For those keeping track or interested in the space, here’s the list of other ones that I am hitting pretty regularly these days:
