The MMO Gamer has tough questions for Entropia, but mostly doesn’t get answers. A prime topic of discussion is their recently announced deal to expand into China. Among the tidbits:
And of course, this response to the censorship question:
Word has come that NCSoft will be shuttering City of Heroes in Korea — it’s only been getting around 300 average daily users there, according to the Korea Herald (it has around 300k in NA & Europe). It goes down on July 11th.
This is yet another in the long string of games that have failed to meaningfully cross the Pacific. To date, WoW is still the only truly massive success, with UO and FFXI also on the list as having done at least OK in other territories.
The tops of ornamented lintels, carved
With bevels, claw-feet foyer tables caught
In dust: a prelude silk and parquet smooth
Where children march to pianistic doom.
I have to admit that I have done a whole bunch of these Geekiest Vacations on eWeek. Not all of them were for vacations, but I’ve been to the National Computer Museum twice (gave a talk there once, actually, for the Churchill Club), to Worldcon, the National Air and Space Museum, and yes, the Quark Bar.
Oh, and some of the other stuff, like going to a great place for nerdy reasons (Switzerland for a social policy conference? Check), traveling laden down with gadgets including a headphone splitter to watch movies with my wife, and of course, #1 — taking a road trip to visit blog buddies.
Well, MUD-Dev buddies and other game devs. But whatever, close enough. 🙂
It helps to have someone fluent in Japanese in the office. 🙂 So first up, here’s word on Cyber MEGACITY, a newly announced virtual world.
Nikkei Exchange (Japan’s NYSE) announcement of a new virtual space research/holding company.
SBI Holdings is forming a new subsidiary (SBI Robo) in partnership with design firm Beyond C and marketing group ArchiveGate (AG Consulting) to create a new virtual space called Cyber MEGACITY, based on Tokyo’s 0th administrative ward.
