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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
After hours of agonizing labor pains, SOE popped Free Realms out last night, just before midnight in California. They were just half an hour from having to have their launch party in Fairbanks, but they technically shipped it Tuesday, despite it being Wednesday in four-fifths of the world. Despite the late hour, the server was … Read more
I really missed writing about these guys. But we’re all hoping Free Realms will be a hit!
BREAKING NEW: 2:31 AM EDT — Free Realms is live! They almost ran out of Tuesday in San Diego but managed to pull it off! BREAKING NEWS: 1:44 AM EDT — Playing GEMS on EVERQUEST… BREAKING NEWS: 12:50 AM EDT — Oh, actually it’s still Tuesday here in Connecticut, too. But SOE is cutting the … Read more
Will EverQuest 3 be going cartoony? Free Realms looks great and I know I’ll be playing it for a long while, but I came into this genre playing EverQuest (if you don’t count Nexus: Kingdom of the Wind), and I’ll leave it playing EverQuest, so now that they have Free Realms out of their system, … Read more
I’ve renamed the Web Log to the Daily Blogroll, just because I like the name better. Also, in the Shameless Self Promotion dept, look for the last Adventures in Monopoly scheduled for later today. There’ll be more adventures with Dire Bear, Scottie and Car, when they have another story to tell. It’s server merge time … Read more