Monday, June 25, 2007

News Blog: Posts tagged acquisition

CNET News - The subscription-based (six dollars per month) ClubPenguin takes the form of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), where children play games, amass virtual goods, and interact with each other, all while participating as penguin more

DailyTech - Not that I'm expecting Nintendo to produce really gory excellent shooters, but if they could make the kids games 720p/1080p AND add some more good shooters (and a good MMORPG) then they'd be printing their own money. Heck the Sims "online" would fit more

Gamasutra - Unless we are making a MMORPG about pirates, and thus our customers are pretending to be pirates, in which case I will gladly treat them as pirates. I had a girlfriend once who liked to pretend to be a pirate. I still have the scar from that parrot more

Gamasutra - Nearly all of The9's revenues come from its licensed MMORPG World of Warcraft , and the company's in-house content development capability is anemic. The two new games are The9's latest attempts to gain a foothold in China's online casual game market more

MSN MoneyCentral - Woool was the first MMORPG developed in-house by Shanda. The game was commercially launched in September 2003 and attracted over 600,000 peak concurrent users in 2005. The game was also selected as "The Best Online Game" at the 2006 China Digital more

Cinema Blend - And while the whole on-line formula works great when you’re fighting hordes of orcs and necromancers in an MMORPG, quick paced fighting just doesn’t seem to translate over well on a wi-fi connection. Also, truth be told, it’s just more fun to more

CNET News - Where will the car of the future come from? Detroit, which fumbled the electric automobile and let Japan grab the lead in hybrids? Not likely. GE Money to issue the eBay MasterCard (CNET News.com) - Friday, June 15, 2007 General Electric's consumer more

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