Going through other bits of info online,my first article about what happened to CoH 2.0 stirred up a confirmation from another source. Continue reading
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City of Heroes / Villains: There Was No CoH/V 2.0 Because…
… NCsoft wasn’t interested. Anonymously-sourced rumours follow. Continue reading
That “Cryptic’s Licensing of Its Engine Is Shutting Down CoH/V…” Rumour
I’m aware that for a lot of CoH/V players “Blame Jack Emmert / Cryptic Studios” is the default position when anything goes wrong, but I don’t see this rumour really being backed by the truth. Continue reading
New Blogger Initiative (#MMONBI) – Fear The Power of Syp!
In the past month: Dominus closed EA BioWare laid off a lot of people from Star Wars: The Old Republic 38 Studios imploded Fallen Earth was cut back to bare bones staffing numbers The Secret World delayed its launch Some may see the above as just the culmination of a number of bad things happening … Continue reading
Five Reasons Why SWOR Is A High Risk MMO: #1 EA Is In It For The Wrong Reasons
It’s been a good week for internet video game drama. There was a nice warm-up with Nick Lovell’s contribution to the masses on 10 doomed games / businesses / products, followed by the main course of EA Louse spewing bile at EA from the inside. Putting aside the validity of EA Louse’s posts – and … Continue reading
Why Marvel Studios Needs to Pay Up
I like superhero films. As such, I definitely appreciate that the genre is going through a good patch where budgets allow for some pretty impressive representations of what happens on the page. A sign of this change in focus has been the creation of Marvel Studios – for years Marvel was content to sell their … Continue reading
The (Near) Future for Paragon Studios
Given the current state of CoH/V, what does the future hold for Paragon Studios? A few things, but some haven’t been as discussed as others. Not The Sarah Palin Book Or Gay Slang The obvious ones to mention are Issue 17: Dark Mirror and Going Rogue. The Dual Pistols powerset is going through an open … Continue reading
A Random Thought: If I Were Head of Blizzard…
This thought occurred to me as I was reading We Fly Spitfire’s comments on the console MMOFPS rumour around Blizzard’s next game… If the rumour was true and I were head of Blizzard, I’d: Take a trip to the Money Room at Blizzard HQ and have a swim around in the Money Pool ala Scrooge … Continue reading
Rumour: Slighted Nerd Claims Cryptic Doing Godzilla MMO
A post on the City of Heroes / Villains forums by an angry nerd, slighted by not winning a Twitter competition HE RIGHTFULLY WON, hints that one of Cryptic’s unannounced MMOs is going to be a Gozilla / giant monsters MMO. Being coy, they don’t want to say outright (because threats help you get what … Continue reading
World Class Villains 