Archive for the ‘Industry Speculation’ Category
Monday, January 7th, 2008
A highly anticipated deal, months in the making, just became official: EA has taken Bioware/Pandemic studios under it's corporate wing. This boost in development talent and resources comes at a good time for EA, considering the recent Activision/Blizzard merger and I think it will indirectly affect Mythic's project, Warhammer Online, ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
There were several interesting WAR-related stories posted today and I thought you'd enjoy them:
Darren, over at the Common Sense Gamer writes about Fighting the WAR. He speculates on what existing a soon-to-be-released MMOs will need to do to remain competitive with WAR, the most highly anticipated game in its genre ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Joe Ludwig, Director of Development at Flying Lab Software (working on the upcoming MMO Pirates of the Burning Sea) makes this prediction:
Warhammer Online is going to launch late in the year. Yeah, they’re saying spring but they’re going to slip again. It will be the second “traditional” MMO to crack ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
According to the BBC, "industry insiders" feel as though Warhammer Online and Age of Conan may be the strongest contenders to weaken World of Warcraft's hold on a huge number of MMORPG gamers (9.3M subscribers who average 17 hours played per week). The insiders forecast success because WAR and AoC ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
I recently ran an unscientific poll at two popular WAR forums, WAR-RvR and Warhammer Alliance, asking future players if they would support anti-cheat, client spyware in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Over 100 people responded, and the results are quite interesting.
Before I get into the analysis, you might be curious ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
According to a recent article over at Games Industries, EA is reporting a net loss of $195M for the quarter and the closure of a UK game shop. That's a big Ouch! considering Madden and Tiger Woods '08 were released during the Q2 reporting period. In fact, EA released five ...
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