Posts Tagged MMO

  • Future in franchising for video games Future in franchising for video games

    Could there be a future for franchising in video games?  No, not of the GameStop variety, but in actual games themselves.  How so?  By letting fans control games that no longer make financial sense for developers and publishers. For example, the old Electronic Arts MMO game Earth ...

  • Video game currencies converted to dollar value

    Exactly how much is a rupee in The Legend of Zelda?  Apparently $3 in US currency.  How is this useful or practical to anyone?  It isn't, of course.  In an article that only a nerd could love, Maxim has taken seven video game currencies and converted them to US dollars. Whi...

  • Should life be more like video games?

    Should life be more like video games? Is such a proposition even possible? Jane McGonigal thinks so. What does she mean? McGonigal believes that games are simply more rewarding than real life and that people would respond better to a real world with game-like attributes. But just who is Jane M...

  • Video game movie news roundup: Max Payne, Prince of Persia and Second Skin

    As video games becomes bigger business in the world of media, so do the films based upon them and centering around the culture of gaming. Three new film projects are making news for gamers. First, is the new Max Payne film. Based off the two game series, the film starts Mark Wahlberg (The Depar...

  • Sony’s MMO The Agency concerned with bras and A-line skirts

    Women may be gaining ground in a male dominated society in the real world (see Hillary Clinton), but what about in the virtual world? Well, they're getting there. Sony's new spy themed console MMO is even concerned with "technical" details such as the difference between A-line and pencil skirts. ...

  • Gender bending quite common in MMOs

    Not that there is anything wrong with it, but over half of men and nearly three quarters of women play MMOs as the opposite sex. That's right, that cute elf warlock you've had your eye on the past few weeks might actually be a dude. It's not quite The Crying Game, but more like the ending of the f...