Year: 2007

Ah,, let’s just mash up the copyright violations into one big ball and see what happens… World of Warcraft Dance Dance Revolution.

I should make a category for Areae-specific stuff! Not that I want it to take over the blog, of course. I didn’t bother linking to every bit of coverage from the announcement because there was so much of it. But this interview with the Guardian ended up being much about overall topic than about specifically the company and the project. Longtime blog readers will probably see some stuff that echoes things I have said before…

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 Slamdance saga is getting silly at this point. The latest news is that DigiPen has forced Toblo to rejoin the festival. Apparently, DigiPen, basically a videogame trade school, asserts IP ownership over student projects.

Coming from a liberal arts sort of background, this kinda shocks me. I can’t recall any colleges claiming IP ownership of student papers or of books written while there. I suppose it’s common if it’s research sponsored by school. Does DigiPen supply financial support to student projects?

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? 🙂